11.   Thanks to the recent proliferation of online grocery services, some consumers have given up roaming the aisles at their local supermarket and order their provisions electronically.

12.   The company begins selling wines over the Internet next year in cooperation with Peapod Inc., an Internet-based grocery delivery service.

13.   The entrepreneur, founder and chief executive officer of the small local grocery service had yanked his Web site and taken a vacation to visit his mother.

14.   The on-line grocery shopping service can pull together your purchases and deliver them within three hours of receiving the order.

15.   The Priceline grocery service is the opposite of most Internet conceits, which sound really cool in the abstract but fall far short in the execution.

16.   There certainly were examples of people who had already tried to build online grocery delivery services.

17.   WebVan, the online grocery service, has been using the Mercado system since last fall.

18.   Webvan joins several other online grocery services on the dot-com scrap heap.