From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:48:13 -0400

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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:05:01 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: WWW Grocery Shopping

Forwarded-by: kevindu@attachmate.com (Kevin J. Dunlap)

Grocery Shopping - Goes online at http://thinkpix.com/sfc/ on World Wide Web
	{The Nashua Telegraph, 10-Jul-95, p. 9}

The Smart Food Co-Op offers free delivery.  So far the store has been
limited to 400 customers, all attending MIT or living in several suburbs
around Cambridge.  This week the service area is to be expanded to
customers living west of Boston.  The store is the brainchild of two MIT
graduates, Chon Vo and Alex Sherstinsky.  Vo, 35, who owns an Asian
restaurant in Cambridge, started an on-line grocery store in 1990.  During
the past year, Sherstinsky, now an MIT graduate student, has taken the
concept and broadened it with dazzling software.  Vo is doing delivery
work now, but eventually he and Sherstinsky hope to hire delivery services
to expand their grocery in Massachusetts and around the nation.
Sherstinsky was in California on Thursday negotiating with stores in
Berkeley. With the service users can:

   o Browse through an array of items and choose, for example, between bananas
     designated "ripe," "near ripe," or "green."

   o Place their items in a computerized basket and keep a running tally of
     their bill.

   o Point and click on the entry "broccoli," and not only get all the
     nutritional information about broccoli, but also receive recipes in which
     broccoli is the predominant ingredient.

   o Use time-saver and budget services that allow them to fill baskets based
     on their likes, dislikes or the amount of money they have.  One customer
     is a vegetarian who likes only organic vegetables.  Another likes his milk
     in cardboard containers - not plastic - to inhibit the effects of light on
     the milk.