Do you recommend Fresh Direct?

trixienyc · August 2006

FYI, FD coupon code, I get these all the time.
go get your shrimps kids.....

Receive a four-pack of our Maryland-Spiced Shrimp Skewers FREE through August 13th!* No need to add it to your cart Ã¢â‚¬â€ we'll automatically include it in your order when you enter the code FREESHRIMP at checkout.

brooklynpotter · August 2006

trixieNYC wrote: FYI, FD coupon code, I get these all the time.
go get your shrimps kids.....

Receive a four-pack of our Maryland-Spiced Shrimp Skewers FREE through August 13th!* No need to add it to your cart Ã¢â‚¬â€ we'll automatically include it in your order when you enter the code FREESHRIMP at checkout.

how come i never get these emails telling me about free things, huh? why not!

trixienyc · August 2006

brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=trixieNYC]FYI, FD coupon code, I get these all the time.
go get your shrimps kids.....

Receive a four-pack of our Maryland-Spiced Shrimp Skewers FREE through August 13th!* No need to add it to your cart Ã¢â‚¬â€ we'll automatically include it in your order when you enter the code FREESHRIMP at checkout.

how come i never get these emails telling me about free things, huh? why not!

well, funny thing is I only get some of them, they send select email marketing to different people (I cant tell you why, no clue) I DO know you have to sign up for email updates however, I havent gotten one in a while. last week was free tandori chicken (didnt get the email) this week free shrimp.
from now on I will post whatever I get, how's that?! y'all do the same!
free food for all!

prusik · August 2006

trixieNYC wrote: well, funny thing is I only get some of them, they send select email marketing to different people

Best deal was when they started delivering in PS and environs - if you ordered $100 or more they took $50 off. It was only good on your first order though. But since me and the missus have different last names, different email addresses.... you get the picture.

sweet tea · August 2006

Carnivore wrote: [quote=SouthSlopeSuit]Fresh Direct is great, but... you gotta wonder. If everyone shopped them, the streets of the Slope would become unpassable.

Doesn't it depend on how full the trucks currently on those routes are? If the trucks are currently running half-empty, then if more people ordered from them, it would actually be more efficient, especially if some of those people would otherwise have driven to the store.

i have a hunch that FD, while very visible and often irritating me by idling outside of my building at 11 pm, is much more effecient than other grocery stores, because they don't have to distribute food from their warehouse to their stores. so FD = one truck trip (from warehouse to customers), while regular stores = at least one truck trip (from warehouse to stores) and often another car trip (from store to customer's house).

i'd love to know if anyone has really looked at the fuel use of that model, beyond my armchair theorizing.

oh, and speaking of armchairs....armchair, the thing about stores with policies that vary by "local morality" (not that my morals were much different growing up in the bible belt than they are now), is that we are supposedly all operating under one set of laws. and (for now, at least) birth control is legal. pharmacists who don't like that should consider other professions, just as christian scientists don't become doctors and jehovah's witnesses don't tend to operate blood banks.

also, it's arguably more of a problem for a woman in a small town to be denied legal medicine, since walmart often IS the only choice. at least here you can go down the block to another store.

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confidential to carnivore: yeah, i always think of dan savage when i think of santorum. snicker.

sweet tea · August 2006

oh and one more thing, while i'm at it: bpotter: rest assured you're not missing out on anything at the atlantic center target. that place is a cesspool.

street shooter · August 2006