Albertsons
America's second-largest grocery chain delivers throughout the West and Southwest. In the Recipe Index, shoppers share a wide range of dishes, and the virtual wine-pairing wheel will guide you in the spirits aisle. $9.95 for delivery, $4.95 if you pick up the order yourself.
www.albertsons.com
Fresh Direct
This well-organized site (with extensive Kosher, organic, and local food sections) is a breeze to navigate. Services Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Minimum order: $40. Delivery fee: $4.95.
www.freshdirect.com
Peapod
The original online grocery service, launched in Chicago in 1989 and now serving cities in Wisconsin, Virginia and the Northeast, offers credit or re-delivery if you're not happy with any item. Buy a Market Day frozen meal and proceeds will go to the school of your choice. Minimum order: $50. Delivery fee: $5.95–$9.95, depending on how much you order.
www.peapod.com
Planet Organics
Organic products (hormone-free steak! fresh German black bread!) and seasonal, local produce (blood oranges! bunches of carrots!) delivered throughout northern California. Minimum order: $28 of produce or $38 total.
www.planetorganics.com
Safeway
All of Safeway's marts on one computer screen. The site's Wellness Center provides health information, like which foods interfere with medications. Service throughout the West and Southwest, with new service this month in Baltimore; Washington, DC; northern Virginia and Philadelphia. Delivery fees: $4.95–$9.95, depending on the time.
www.safeway.com
Simon Delivers
The online version of this Twin Cities superstore offers dishes from Seattle Sutton (a newly popular weight-loss program), prepared mains and sides from its own virtual "diner," and menus with links to ingredients you'd need to make them on your own. And you have the option to donate to a local charity each time you check out. Serves Minnesota. Delivery charge: $5–$7.95, depending on the price of your order.
www.simondelivers.com
