Peapod Aligns with Netgrocer for Shipping
e said last week that it has entered into agreement with Netgrocer.com, North Brunswick, N.J., to use Netgrocer.com's national pack-and-ship delivery service instead of its "peapod packages" service to deliver groceries to customers outside Peapod delivery areas. Customers will begin receiving deliveries via the Netgrocer.com service tomorrow, Peapod said. Starting then, customers who access the "peapod packages" section of the company's Web site will automatically be linked to Netgrocer.com.
More Than Half NYC Supermarkets Fail Annual Inspection: Report
NEW YORK -- More than half the supermarkets here failed New York State inspections in 2000 and 2001, according to a series of articles in the New York Daily News last week. The articles, based on documents the paper obtained through the state Freedom of Information Act, said that 331 of 610 supermarkets inspected in the city in 2000 and 2001 were found to have the most serious level of violations, "critical deficiencies," which the paper said were defined by law as conditions or practices that can lead to food contamination or trigger illness.
