Here at TOPP, we've been using Fresh Direct for a while now for our office groceries (even while being critical of them on one of our blogs). It's easy -- we can order online and have food delivered right to the office. However, the packaging Fresh Direct uses is really outrageous; items are delivered in cardboard boxes, and are packed as if they're traversing the Atlantic, with on or two items per box surrounded by layers upon layers of packaging and padding. No longer. This week, we switched to Max Delivery, a service that offers same day delivery of many products within Manhattan. Max Delivery is a hybrid of Fresh Direct and Urban Fetch/Kozmo -- offering a full online catalog of staples as well as select items from NYC merchants. The kicker (for us at least) is their reusable bag program
Here at TOPP, we've been using Fresh Direct for a while now for our office groceries (even while being critical of them on one of our blogs). It's easy -- we can order online and have food delivered right to the office. However, the packaging Fresh Direct uses is really outrageous; items are delivered in cardboard boxes, and are packed as if they're traversing the Atlantic, with on or two items per box surrounded by layers upon layers of packaging and padding. No longer. This week, we switched to Max Delivery, a service that offers same day delivery of many products within Manhattan. Max Delivery is a hybrid of Fresh Direct and Urban Fetch/Kozmo -- offering a full online catalog of staples as well as select items from NYC merchants. The kicker (for us at least) is their reusable bag program
. Instead of packed boxes, they deliver using reusable shopping bags, with no extra packaging. Simply pay a $1.50 deposit for each bag, and return them upon next pickup. In between deliveries, you're free to use the bags for your own shopping. To boot, the grocery prices are lower at Max Delivery than at Fresh Direct (or so I'm told).
Frannie and I are ready to sell our car, Dudley. He's a great car, and we love him, but we just don't use him enough to justify the expense. If you're interested or know anyone who might be, let me know
This week, we launched the new, improved GothamSchools. GothamSchools is the latest media / advocacy initiative from The Open Planning Project, and our first foray into the world of education. We've got a great team of reporters in Philissa Cramer, Elizabeth Green, and Kelly Vaughan, and the new site website was put together by the talented Chris Abraham and Phil Ashlock. GothamSchools the news outlet is just the beginning; look for more as we build up community and tools around this initiative.
. Instead of packed boxes, they deliver using reusable shopping bags, with no extra packaging. Simply pay a $1.50 deposit for each bag, and return them upon next pickup. In between deliveries, you're free to use the bags for your own shopping. To boot, the grocery prices are lower at Max Delivery than at Fresh Direct (or so I'm told).
Frannie and I are ready to sell our car, Dudley. He's a great car, and we love him, but we just don't use him enough to justify the expense. If you're interested or know anyone who might be, let me know
This week, we launched the new, improved GothamSchools. GothamSchools is the latest media / advocacy initiative from The Open Planning Project, and our first foray into the world of education. We've got a great team of reporters in Philissa Cramer, Elizabeth Green, and Kelly Vaughan, and the new site website was put together by the talented Chris Abraham and Phil Ashlock. GothamSchools the news outlet is just the beginning; look for more as we build up community and tools around this initiative.
