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Did you know that you could buy food online? I was amazed when I
discovered this fact. There are hundreds of different food websites on
the internet, all of which offer great deals and promotions. So no
matter what you are in the mood for, you can find it online. You can
choose from steaks, lobsters, fruit, wine, chocolates, cakes, coffee,
and much more.
What's available you ask? You may be surprised to find out that almost
any item that you desire can be purchased online. Many sites offer
discount grocery delivery, as well as gourmet treats. If you want a
cheap elegant dinner date, try ordering two live Maine lobsters! They
will be shipped to your doorstep within 24 hours, complete with cooking
instructions. You can make it surf and turf by adding some Omaha steaks
to the menu. Top it off with a bottle of wine and imported chocolates.
All purchased online, for less than you would think! The trick to
buying food online is to look for the best deals and promotions.
A good food delivery site will have many important features. You want
to find someone that has been around for a while. I like the selection
available at CouponChief.com. They only work with the best sites, and
you can be sure that you are getting a good deal. Check out their RSS
feed to have the online bargains delivered to your news aggrigator. For
the first time you can actually find coupons that we can read!
Look at a site's prices and selection. Most sites will offer various
promotions and coupons for repeat customers. So if you get hooked on
that fancy chocolate, it may be cheaper the next time you order a
batch. You can also find coupon codes that may give you free shipping
or 15% off the next purchase.
Be sure to factor in the shipping costs. Good sites offer free shipping
anywhere in the country. Most perishable items will need to be
specially packed and rush delivered.
Buying food online is a great way to get a good discount. Websites have
lower overhead and are able to give you the same product your local
grocery store can, at a fraction of the retail price. What a great
deal! And with the wide assortment and free shipping, you can't pass up
buying food online.
CampusFood.com
If you live on or near a college campus, CampusFood offers online
ordering for hundreds of restaurants ranging from large chains to small
local eateries. Coupons and promotions are often available. You can
also save your most ordered items to a favorites list and then order
from your phone using text messaging. The site is pretty easy to
navigate and works well with screen readers.
Campusfood got its start in 1997 when President Michael Saunders, then
a student at University of Pennsylvania, decided there was an easier
and more convenient way to order his tuna hoagie than over the phone.
Students now browse through menus and order food online with Campusfood
making issues such as misplaced menus, busy signals, and order
miscommunications obsolete.
Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a
national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more
than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues
to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster.
Click this link to visit http://www.campusfood.com.
Amazon Grocery
The following is direct from Amazon:
As an Amazon customer, you expect to find an unparalleled combination
of selection and value, no matter what type of product you seek. That's
exactly the premise we started with in building Amazon Grocery. To that
foundation, we added features that would create a new kind of shopping
experience, one where it's easy to keep track of the groceries you want
and easy to discover new favorites, and then have them delivered to
your door free via Super Saver Shipping or Amazon Prime.
At Amazon Grocery, you'll find longtime staples, from Kellogg's to
Jiffy Pop. You'll find new entries, such as Kashi cereals and Kraft
Easy Mac microwavable snack packets. And when we carry a brand, we'll
try to carry every flavor available: not just the most popular flavors
of Jell-O, but all flavors, from apricot to wild strawberry and the 70
flavors in-between. We're also making regional favorites like Andy Capp
Hot Fries available nationwide, and making hard-to-find specialties
like Zico Pure Coconut Water a standard part of our mix.
We also have an extensive selection of natural and organic products. If
you haven't heard of Immaculate Baking Company or Bear Naked, let us be
the first to introduce you to these earth-friendly brands and their
fantastic products.
Our goal at Amazon Grocery is to make sure you find the products you
want, available at a competitive price, shipped free via Super Saver
Shipping or Amazon Prime. To do this, we're working with our
manufacturers on ways to keep per-unit costs low. For example, items
you purchase might come in larger packs than you see at a traditional
grocery store, and we might ship a product in a manufacturer's original
case.
Along with this new category of products, we're highlighting a feature
we call Your Shopping List, which you'll find under the "Your Lists"
link on the top of every page. Your Shopping List makes it easier to
locate and keep track of items you purchase routinely--products such as
coffee and tea, cereal, paper towels, and cookies. You can order one or
all of the products directly from your list, and you can add and delete
items with the click of a button.
Let us know how we can make Amazon Grocery better for you by sending an
e-mail to grocery-feedb...@amazon.com.
Click this link to visit Amazon Grocery.
Cut down household shopping needs with Amazon's Subscribe & Save
Program
You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at
Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out
of this feature-packed shopping engine. Several advanced Amazon
features and third party apps and add-ons can help you get the best
deals and the stuff you want delivered to your door. Now, here's an
Amazon power-shopper tool to add to your cart.
Sick of running out to buy diapers, shampoo, laundry detergent or
toilet paper? Grocery shopping is an unavoidable commitment of modern
life, but Amazon's Subscribe & Save program can shorten your list and
lighten the load of your grocery bags. Get paper towels, dry food
goods, baby needs, or a healthy selection of other items delivered on a
recurring schedule, at a discount, with free shipping, and, most
importantly, without having to worry or think about it.
This service from Amazon called Subscribe & Save ships regular
deliveries of discounted household items on a schedule you determine.
"Subscribe" to, say, your favorite brand of paper towels and set Amazon
to ship you a few packages every one, two, three, or six months. Amazon
waives the shipping fee, gives you 15% off their regular price for the
towels, emails you before each shipment goes out (with an option to
cancel), and charges you only when they ship. Offer only applies to
household items, not books, CDs or DVDs), but it sure looks like a
handy way to automate your shopping and save cash, time and travel on
bus or paratransit.
Click this link to get started with Amazon's Subscribe & Save Program.
Order Online and Local Restaurants Deliver
Delivery.com provides fast and easy online food ordering from local
restaurants & merchants. Since 1999, Delivery.com, formerly
NYCTOGO.com, has provided both companies and consumers with the
convenience of a singular destination for all of their food delivery
needs.
Delivery.com users place orders online, eliminating the need for
telephone calls, and making food ordering a fast, convenient and more
efficient process. Benefits include:
a.. Accessible menus from local restaurants
b.. Save favorite orders and restaurants for easy reordering
c.. Maintain a complete history of past orders
d.. Save money on exclusive specials
e.. Earn prizes, cash and airline miles through DeliveryPoints accrued
with each order
The information regarding price, product specifications and
availability contained on the site has been provided by member
retailers. The prices charged by Delivery.com member retailers are the
same as the prices charged in their brick-and-mortar stores at the time
an order is delivered, shipped or available for pickup.
For more information about Delivery.com, call 800-709-7191 or visit
them on the web at http://www.delivery.com.
Internet Grocer
I recently came across a fantastic site called Internet Grocer, the
website for the company Best Price Storable Foods. If you are at all
interested in any level of home preparedness, you have got to check
this site. You may find yourself spending hours browsing the site, but
here are some of the things that I think you should check out:
Canned Foods: The website specializes in selling canned foods that are
nearly impossible to find, like canned butter, cheese, and high-quality
meats, including canned ground beef.
Dehydrated Foods: Best Prices Storable Foods sells Mountain House brand
dehydrated foods. You can buy these products in the #10 can size (which
is about a gallon size) or #2.5 cans (which is about a quart size).
There are a few places that you can find #10 cans of dehydrated food,
but that size is too big for most families. Once opened, dehydrated
foods should be used within two weeks. This is hard to do with most
items. The smaller size is very practical for average families, and for
sampling the product before buying it in bulk.
Year's Supply: You can also purchase pre-assembled year supplies for
one, two, or four people. These are composed of dehydrated foods from
Mountain House brand. In addition, there are three month supplies for
one or four persons available for purchase. If you want to have a
year's supply for your family, but don't want to have to worry about
compiling it yourself, this may be just the option you need.
Grain Mills: Use this website to find electric and hand-powered grain
mills for as low as $55.
References: In addition to these items I have listed, there are many
more products sold on this website in addition to home preparedness
references to help you as you plan for emergencies.
Click this link to visit http://www.internet-grocer.net.
Here are some additional websites that have been reccomended by blind
and visually impaired computer users. Some of these sites also offer
delivery within designated sections of the country:
AmericaGrocer.com
http://www.AmericaGrocer.com
AmericaGrocer takes the tediousness out of grocery shopping, shipping
non refrigerated items across the 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii.
Shipping rates start as low as $12.99-- and the more you buy, the more
pounds you pack, the less your shipping costs will be. Products are
conveniently classed by type; you can browse through breads, baked
goods, sweets, canned goods, pet care, and cleaning supplies, among
other things. Selection is quite varied, with brands for all budgets.
All products are shipped via FedEx and arrive anywhere from two to five
days after you've placed your order. Low prices are guaranteed. If you
find cheaper price tags at NetGrocer's or Albertsons.com, AmericaGrocer
will refund 110% of the difference.
AulSuperStore.com
http://www.aulsuperstore.com
Offering nation-wide delivery of groceries including pet food. Phone
800-791-2114 Monday through Thursday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Fridays
10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Groceries Express
http://www.groceries-express.com
20,000 brand names shipped to USA and Military, Detroit Delivery.
Peapod
http://www.peapod.com
1-800-573-2763
Delivers within the Washington DC Metro Area, Boston Massachusetts and
in Chicago, Illinois, but go to the site and enter your zipcode. You
may be in an area where they have expanded their delivery service.
Safeway
http://shop.safeway.com/access
Enter your zipcode to see if delivery service is available in your
area.
Omaha Steaks
http://www.omahasteaks.com
Tortuga Rum Cakes
http://www.tortugarums.com
This site delivers rum cakes plus coffees and other tropical items.
QVC http://www.qvc.com
1-800-345-1515 or 1-800-345-2525
My favorite shopping channel. sometimes they have food items like
steaks, ribs, fish, crabcakes and apples.
Netgrocer.com
http://www.netgrocer.com
Features nonparishable items, cereals, pastas, canned vegetables and
soups. Their site is very speech friendly too!
Bashas' Supermarkets
http://www.bashas.com
Online ordering and delivery to the Metro Phoenix area and Tucson.
Albertsons
http://www.Albertsons.com/access
Bypass the fields for username and password and enter your zip code in
the field indicated. You can then see a list of places where delivery
is available. Non-perishables can apparently be delivered anywhere in
the country, through a service Albertson's partners with.
GroceryTaxi
http://www.Grocerytaxi.com
Delivery in the Miami, Florida area.
wallgreens.com
http://www.wallgreens.com
Online ordering only, no delivery service.
Valu Market
http://www.valumarket.com/curbside_header.htm
Delivery and pickup in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Shop online and
have items delivered or you can pick them up.
Schnucks Market out of St. Louis Missouri.
http://www.schnucks.com
Delivers to many towns in Missouri and Illinois plus Evansville Indiana
and Davenport Iowa.
Gophergrocery.com
http://www.Gophergrocery.com
GopherGrocery is an online shopping portal that allows you to pick out
your groceries and have them delivered to your door the next day. The
site currently services the Twin Cities area and deliveries of over
$100 are free of charge. The interface for selecting groceries is
pretty standard; search by product or category and see small-thumbnail
images of the products before purchasing. The portal seems to contain
just about everything that you'd expect from a grocery store and it is
easy to search and find what you require. In case you aren't lucky
enough to work from home, you can also select the time that you'd like
your groceries delivered, within a window of one hour.
OneClickGrocery.com
http://www.OneClickGrocery.com
Another online grocery store contender, OneClickGrocery, ships for free
to dorms, apartments, businesses and homes in New York and Conneticut.
Delivery is available five days a week; first time orderers get $5 in
free groceries and the same goes if you refer a friend. OneClick also
allows users to create and save shopping lists, and users can even get
some inspiration from the site's selection of pre-made lists tailored
by location. University student parents can chip in to their kids'
grocery funds using the aptly named "Grocery Fund" function; money
deposited can go towards dining hall meal plans as well. Any unused
funds are returned at the end of the year. Although delivery is free,
and you pick the delivery time, there is a $15 charge for redelivery.
Eatyourmailbox.com
http://www.Eatyourmailbox.com
With over 1100 participating vendors from across the United States,
EatYourMailbox is a service that allows you to order food from any
State and have it delivered to your front door. The premise behind this
service is that you can't always get the regional foods that you know
and love when you move to the other side of the country, unless of
course you order it from EatYourMailBox. The site is easy to use and
goods can be searched for by State and type of food or by entering
keywords into a search bar. After getting your results, check out a
brief description of the sites and how other readers have rated them,
then visit the website of the vendor you choose and order what you
like.
Foodzie
http://foodzie.com
Looking for some homemade items that you won't find in the local
grocery store? Foodzie is an online marketplace where you can discover
and buy food from small artisan producers and growers.
Price Cutter Online
http://www.pricecutteronline.com
A shopping website for groceries that delivers to the Southwest
Missouri area.
Meijer
http://www.meijerdoorstepgrocer.com
The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer, has a grocery delivery service
available in all 50 states and internationally. Orders for any of 5,000
items can be made at the link above. Tack on shipping fees of $7.95 and
up, and items will typically hit doorsteps within two to four days.
The site offers non-perishable national and Meijer brand items as well
as baby supplies, pet food, cleaning supplies, laundry products and
healthy and beauty items. About 3,000 items are individual-sized and
the rest are multi-pack or bulk.
Eat Out In
https://www.eatoutin.com/default.asp
Available in Austin & San Antonio TX.
Do you know other websites that specialize in the sale or delivery of
food? Send them to fredsh...@aph.org and we'll update this list.
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