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Your A-List: Best Place to Buy Fresh Fruits and Veggies
Ah, the 21st … Internets, is there anything you can’t do? While we are fortunate to have great markets from which to buy fresh produce, the very busy of us are even more fortunate to have a place to buy excellent produce online. The winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Place to Buy Fresh Fruits and Veggies is the relatively new Greenling.com.
The local online purveyor, which took home 41 percent, offers (mostly) organic produce, along with a selection from all the food groups, delivered straight to your door for no extra fee. Simply ‘fill up your cart,’ select your preferred delivery date and then sit back and await your bounty. You have to make sure your list is updated three days prior to delivery, and can schedule recurring delivery on the same day each week or simply do a one-off delivery to see if you like the process and enjoy the food.
Costs for produce are slightly higher than other organic grocers, but I have heard nothing but rave reviews from friends and co-workers who have used the site. I still prefer to browse aisles and see what I’m getting before I buy it, but if I could be disciplined enough to stick to a list or didn’t have the time to make it to the grocery, I imagine that the growing Greenling would be a welcome switch to old-fashioned grocery shopping.
For more information on Greenling, head to the FAQ section on their Web site.
Others receiving votes
- Austin Farmers’ Market, 20 percent
- Manor Farmers’ Market, 12 percent
- Central Market, 10 percent
- Whole Foods Market, 6 percent
- Sunset Valley Farmers’ Market, 5 percent
- Boggy Creek Farm, 3 percent
- Sun Harvest, 2 percent
- Wheatsville Co-op, 2 percent
- South Austin Farmers’ Market, 1 percent
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