Online Ordering

MyWebGrocer announced the launch of a consumer-direct grocery channel for Dayton, Ohio consumers through Dorothy Lane Markets.

PublixDirect, the online order and delivery unit created by Publix, plans to start service next month in Florida and plans a launch in north metro Atlanta next spring, according to an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

A monthly estimate of online spending by U.S.consumers suggests that Internet shoppers forkedout about the same amount in July - nearly $4billion - as they did during the same period a yearago.

Aug. 22--Now that it has the grocery home delivery market to itself in the Boston area, Peapod Inc. iseliminating free deliveries in a bid to boost its profitability.

Leading Internet grocer Peapod Inc. and Giant Food Inc., a leading supermaket chain in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States and a wholly owned subsidiary of international food provider Royal Ahold, today announced the expansion of the Peapod by Giant online shopping and delivery service in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.