Wakozi Makes Its Debut

27Mar08

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When I first moved to Manhattan, I was most enthusiastic about the variety of delivery options. I had grown up with access to museums, nightlife, etc., but I was deprived takeout of the non-pizzeria/Chinese variety. As an adult, that sucks when you are a busy person who works late hours. Just in case you didn’t know. So, I arrived, I unpacked, and I immediately canvassed my neighborhood and beyond, plucking take-out menus from the outdoor menu stacks whenever and wherever provided. When a friend told me about Fresh Direct, my enthusiasm for city life grew (it has since been tempered by an acute awareness of the environmental irresponsibility of Fresh Direct, which I completely ignore when my refrigerator is extra-empty and I’m extra-busy). When another friend told me about SeamlessWeb, I was down right ecstatic. Today, I would like to be the one to pass a torch and excite you with news of yet another innovation that will make your life even more convenient: Wakozi. For the record, I’m elated. Like SeamlessWeb, Wakozi links users to the inventories of nearby stores, which will deliver free of charge (save for tax, any applicable minimum amounts, and a negotiable tip).

The difference between Wakozi and SeamlessWeb, however, is that Wakozi links you to liquor stores and bodegas. Basically, you can now order certain items for immediate delivery that you could previously only request from FreshDirect with 24 hours notice, in addition to other items never before available through a comprehensive delivery service (read: booze). If only I had known that Eastview would deliver me Tylenol last week, when I was sequestered with the flu. And vodka, to put me out of my misery when the Tylenol failed to make me feel any better. Just kidding. There’s always vodka in the freezer.


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  1. 1 full disclosure on April 2, 2008 said:

    http://www.freshdirect.com/department.jsp?deptId=our_picks&trk=EARTH1

    Maybe Robert Sietsema should write about this…oh wait, its not sensationalized enough, bc its GOOD PRESS. Perhaps “Queen Samantha” shouldn’t believe everything she reads, or maybe just read a bit more than the Village Voice.

  2. 2 Queen Samantha on April 2, 2008 said:

    Listen up, Nolan, “Queen Samantha” reads quite a bit — at the very least, she reads more than say, THE FRESH DIRECT WEBSITE. I’ll give you the biodiesel thing — after all, gas is pretty expensive nowadays. I wouldn’t, however, mistake it for corporate responsibility. Anyway, thank you for informing us that the Fresh Direct marketing team has figured out that any corporation can capitalize on the “environmental awareness” theme. Brilliant investigative journalism there, Nolan. What a fucking breakthrough.

    While we’re on the topic manipulative marketing, I believe Starbucks has a “free trade” line of coffee (which, by the way, is a funny name for a “progressive” line of coffee, since we should all know by now that the assumptions underlying free trade theory are all mercantilist garbage). And while we’re citing examples of corporate “environmentalism,” we shouldn’t go one more minute without visiting the McDonald’s webpage devoted to environmental conservation/preservation:

    (http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/good/environment.html)

    I cite these examples because, just as Nolan said, we shouldn’t believe everything we read. Instead, we should unquestioningly believe everything corporations tell us — ESPECIALLY when they use the words “sustainable,” “local,” and “organic” — and completely disregard any social/environmental offenses to which they make no mention.

    In conclusion, Nolan, you’re an idiot and thank goodness we have publications like the Village Voice and writers like Robert Sietsema who absorb rhetoric, compare it to reality, process it, and then spit out the truth in a highly digestable form so that maybe, if we’re lucky, the world will benefit from a few less ignorant fuckheads like yourself.

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