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...largest online supermarket left standing--Peapod.com serving New England and Chicago--is now owned by the $65 billion Dutch mega-chain Royal Ahold. Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989. It expects to be fully profitable by 2003, partly because it curtailed its early ambitions. "We got too big," says Marc van Gelder, a former Ahold executive who is Peapod's ceo. "Now we're staying east of the Mississippi"--and binding the company tightly to Ahold-owned stores and distribution centers...
...online groceries do have a future. Jupiter Media Metrix still expects e-grocers to flourish into an $11 billion business, ringing up 2% of total grocery sales, by 2006. But the future is more likely to arrive at your local supermarket than Webvan-style 100,000-sq.-ft. distribution centers. Safeway and Albertsons are preparing to roll out what is known as the "store-pick" model--you order online, and a professional shopper (O.K., a teenager with a produce chart) picks out the goods at your nearest supermarket, as opposed to a dedicated warehouse. Then you either get same...
...Sinar himself has always been comfortable, Sultan or not. He inherited a palm oil plantation and he teaches history and ethnomusicology. His life, he says, goes from "one seminar to the next." As a tengku, he blesses a ceremony here or there and performs the local equivalent of supermarket openings. Neighbors come to him for advice, interactions he enjoys though "it's hard if they arrive when I'm having a siesta." In his living room, above the couch, is a picture of his father in full regalia. He is stunning, all sashes and ribbons. Sinar, sitting in a high...
...possible that I got burned at unusually busy moments. A good friend of mine does swear by Webvan, even though she lives right next door to a supermarket. It could just be that she has a crush on the delivery guy. Whatever the reason, Webvan's near-inevitable crash and burn is clearly going to be a great loss for many folks around here, just as the untimely passing of Urbanfetch and Kozmo.com - both of which delivered videos, ice cream and munchies to your door within an hour - made a lot of us feel like wearing black. I still...
...this keeps up, food targeted to women may need its own aisle in the supermarket, alongside dairy, paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...