Organic Home Delivery – part deux

After trying both Delicious Planet and Organic To Go, we’ve settled on Organic To Go as clearly the better of the two, for a few reasons:

1) More frequent delivery options — you can have delivery on any day… in fact, I logged on Sunday and was able to have delivery on Monday at 7:30am (Delicious Planet restricts you to two delivery days & ordering deadlines each week)

2) Larger portions – in fact, with the full dinners and lunches, I’m finding myself leaving items out to eat later (and that isn’t an easy accomplishment for a food provider attending to my diet…)

3) Better website – it does a good job of allowing you to select quantities for each and add to cart — then, you move to the next tab (to ‘Dinner’, from ‘Lunch’, say) and add a few more items. (Delicious Planet’s website is just not very good — makes you ‘backpage’ to go order more items… very clugey… and also very easy to fix)

4) Organic Beer and Wine! In fact, I just got the Fish Tale Ales Organic India Pale Ale, and honestly, it is delicious — it may become my standard in-home beer!

5) Excellent delivery personnel – they come in a ‘Home Grocer Like’ truck, and the driver is decked out in uniform. (Delicious Planet seemed to favor ‘leaving it outside in a styrofoam cooler’ over ringing the bell and handing it to you…)

Some things Organic To Go can still do better on?

a) on checkout page, allow existing user log-in — is weird, but my first inclination is to fill up my cart, then to go and checkout. But, they don’t allow that. Instead, as an existing user I need to go and click a button to ‘log in’. They should have that option below your cart, so that you can either ‘log in’ right from that page, or enter in new customer information.

b) cut down on the amount of raw materials in packaging — this is a nitpick, but each meal comes in a handy little bag, complete with plastic utensils, napkins, etc. That is great, for lunch bags, but for dinners at home, it is really unnecessary — would be nice if there were an option to not include that, so as to save on the materials/recycling

c) more variety — again, a bit of a nit — the vegetables are great, but it seems like we’re getting similar stuff with each dinner. some of the onus is probably on me in ordering, but it would be nice to get more variety.

All in all, though, kudos to Organic To Go — you all are doing a great job, and helping make the world a better place!

p.s. Can I come join you and help you grow even faster? 🙂