Ask Amy: Where Can I Buy Groceries Online?
POSTED: Tuesday, September 12, 2006
HOUSTON -- No more checkout lines or waiting for price checks. Five million Americans have ditched their brick-and-mortar grocery stores to shop online. A Houston woman asked KPRC Local 2 Investgates' Amy Davis where she could go on the World Wide Web to place her order.Rheanne Lindsey is ready for the convenience of online shopping, but only a handful of Web sites will deliver in the Houston area.Davis checked around and found that Rice Epicurean is the only Houston-area store to offer the online grocery shopping service. It charges $7 for pickup and $15 for delivery.The Rice Epicurean stores only deliver to 34 ZIP codes in the Houston area.Kroger offers a limited online shopping through its Web site, www.Kroger.com.For those on more of a budget, try Amazon.com's new online grocery store.Currently, the mega Web retailer only offers non-perishable items such as soap, cereal and diapers. But it will ship an order for less than $5.Maybe a craving and not just convenience is driving some to the Web.For instance, a person moves to New York but wants Blue Bell ice cream.Davis found that shoppers can buy it at www.foodlocker.com. The Web-based store is based here in Houston. It makes regional brand products and specialty foods from all over the world available through the click of a mouse.In the late 1990s, Randalls offered Peapod, a grocery delivery service. But after two years, Randalls dropped the service.Recent reports said that last year, Americans spent $3.3 billion buying groceries online.But none of the Houston-area grocers could explain why the Bayou City does not have more choices for online shopping.
If you have a consumer question to "Ask Amy," send her an e-mail.
Copyright 2006 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Copyright 2006 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
A driver leads police on a chase for more than an hour before he jumps off a parking garage and is apprehended.
An 18-year-old whose bloody body was found
in a closet of her family's home died of a stab
wound to the neck.
A man dies after he was detained by a police officer, KPRC Local 2 reports.
A Houston-area woman turns other people's junk into a money-making business, KPRC Local 2 reports.
Some lucky Houston-area residents win tickets to attend Michael Jackson's memorial service, and one man hopes it will change his life, KPRC Local 2 reports.
July 6, 2009: A driver leads police on a chase through several cities and parts of the Houston area for more than an hour. Ryan Korsgard reports.
July 5, 2009: A man who was speeding away from authorities struck a concrete wall and jumped 50 feet to his death off a highway exit ramp. Lisa Baldwin reports.
July 5, 2009: An arrest is made in a slaying the Wheel of Justice team has been following for more than a year. Joel Eisenbaum reports.
July 6, 2009: Hundreds of acres of land have been burned by a forest fire west of Houston, KPRC Local 2 reports.
July 6, 2009: A forest fire in Colorado County has burned nearly 2,000 acres of land, KPRC Local 2 reports. Phil Archer reports.
Police chase a driver for about an hour and ends when he jumps off the roof of a parking garage, KPRC Local 2 reports.
The images keep rolling in! See other viewers' ink, get ideas and send in your own tattoo photos.
Whatever the reason, Michael Jackson's face underwent changes from the time he first hit the music scene in 1969 until his death.
You won't believe some of the tattoos in here! Check out some great tattoos and some interesting ink.
Michael Jackson is one of many musicians who died before their time. Take a look at some of the other rockers who suffered premature deaths.
Email Alerts
RSS News Feeds
Mobile
Live Streams
Slideshows
Video
Search
