SPUD, or Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery, is a company based in San Francisco which provides grocery delivery. SPUD offers primarily organic and locally harvested or manufactured food, and keeps costs low because the business operates out of a warehouse. It's a great business model, and we have been meaning to try it out for months!
Unlike Safeway delivery, you don't have a choice about when your order is delivered. For example, if you live in Union City, you get your food on Wednesday. This also keeps costs low (go affordable organics!) and allows the delivery vans to operate according to the greenest delivery routes possible. Also unlike Safeway delivery, SPUD uses no bags whatsoever; everything comes in reusable crates. And there isn't a delivery charge for orders over $40! Who with a family of four spends less than $40 on groceries per week? At least where we live, that would be nearly impossible.
Usually, for a week's worth of food, we spend about $180 at the store (yes, even at Sunflower with the amazing bulk bins selection). However, our total bill for the first week of SPUD delivery was $140, and we got a $20 coupon toward our next order. $20! That's a lot! And they carry Strauss milk in the glass bottles. I could go on and on.
You can also build a locally farmed produce box into your order; however, we still get a lot of stuff from our garden, so we aren't ready to commit to that yet. But it's enticing enough that we will probably try it at some point.
The only thing SPUD does not carry that we buy regularly is diapers. (Ruby has officially outgrown her cloth ones and we are too close to potty training to buy new ones...and too pregnant to care for washing them all the time right now, let's be honest). I actually consider this serendipitous because we just found a great compostable diaper service and plan to start it within the next couple of weeks. That, however, is another story.
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