We here on the East coast are a bit behind the times where some things are concerned. Five years ago, when I used to hear about newfangled technologies and web services, I thought “Gee, that’s a swell idea, but it’ll take fifteen years to reach us here in Baltimore.” Webvan, Pets.com—great ideas, but not available in this backwater city.

So imagine my surprise when I found out that Peapod, which is owned by the Giant grocery chain, is now offering online shopping and delivery service in the Baltimore area. That’s right, for a minimum order of $50, you can have somebody drop off the milk, eggs, bread, and TP to your house when you’re there, or even when you’re not. I’d like to test it out sometime soon to see how well it works. Then maybe we might set up a bimonthly dropoff of the staples just so we can save the time and hassle of picking them up.

In other consumer news, I broke down today and bought a refurbished Airport Extreme Base Station to replace the first unit that died with the liquor return money we got from our wedding supplier. (Gotta love wholesalers, baby!) After doing a pile of research on the other alternatives out there, I decided to give the big A another shot.

Date posted: August 23, 2004 | Filed under geek, shopping | Leave a Comment »

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