Home Sweet Home Delivery
John "Zeke" Zechiel displays fresh offerings from Washington's Green Grocer, which provides weekly produce deliveries to much of the D.C. area.
(By Sora Devore For The Washington Post)
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Sunday, May 6, 2007
Mick Jagger had it all wrong. You can always get what you want. And nowadays, with the click of a mouse, you can have it delivered.
From DVDs to Diet Coke, books to bar soap, the scope and speed of home delivery has gone beyond anything old Papa John ever dreamed of. And while popular services such as Peapod and Netflix abound, many companies are targeting niche markets with specialty goods -- from pet food for Fido to fodder for your late-night munchies. Here are a few businesses ready to deliver to your doorstep:
Chateaux Animaux
Stomach growling? Call Domino's. Pooch growling? Call Chateaux Animaux. The Capitol Hill pet store has been making neighborhood deliveries for more than a decade.
Everything you see on the store's Web site -- doggie dishes, scratching posts, ID tags -- is available for delivery, but most people just sign up for dog food, cat food or cat litter, says owner Dennis Bourgeault, 44.
The delivery area is limited to around Capitol Hill, and orders go out on Tuesdays and Saturdays. There's a $30 minimum purchase and a $5 delivery fee. Doesn't make much sense if you're ordering food for your goldfish, but it's well worth it if you're tired of lugging those 40-pound bags of Iams back to your fifth-floor walk-up.
524 Eighth St. SE, 202-544-8710, http:/
DC Snacks
Matt Mandell talks fast and delivers faster. The self-described "bossman-slash-toilet-cleaner" founded College Snacks in 2003 as a student at George Washington University, pedaling late-night munchies across the Foggy Bottom campus. The idea took off, with midnight-snack-happy students clicking for candy bars and pints of ice cream into the wee hours.
Fast-forward to 2007: Mandell's rebranded DC Snacks delivers hundreds of orders to downtown District residents every night, offering energy drinks, cigarettes, cereal, condoms, vegan cookies and . . . well, what else do you want?
"We're incredibly customer focused," says Mandell, 25, who bases his stock almost entirely on customer suggestions.
So log on to the DC Snacks Web site and place your order. It opens for business every night at 8 p.m. and closes shop at 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and at 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. The site has a map of its delivery area (roughly from Georgetown to Verizon Center, Adams Morgan to the Ellipse), and the company promises you'll get the goods in less than 35 minutes. There's a $1.50 delivery charge for orders under $10 and no charge if you spend more.
202-333-3278, http:/
DietToGo.com
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