Small potatoes urban delivery

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Small Potatoes Urban Delivery Inc.
Type	Private
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Vancouver BC, Canada
Key people	David Van Seters (founder and CEO)
Industry	Grocery
Products	Grocery, Organic Produce
Website	http://www.spud.ca http://www.spud.com

Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD) is an online grocery store dedicated to being "the most socially responsible, environmentally sound, and financially profitable internet home delivery company in North America" The ideology behind SPUD and other home delivery systems is to save time for the consumer while saving money by operating out of a warehouse rather than a high cost retail store, and to be environmentally friendly by reducing pollution by reducing the amount of travel required to distribute groceries to the publics homes.

SPUD currently operates in; Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Calgary, AB & Seattle, WA.

[edit] Time Line

taken directly from SPUD website

November 1997: SPUD incorporated as a business in British Columbia

March 1998: SPUD begins deliveries

September 1999: SPUD voted best organic food delivery service by Georgia Straight

March 2000: Cascadia organics joins with SPUD

September 2000: Evergreen Organics merges with SPUD

November 2000: Organic Heaven combines with SPUD

January 2001: Organics to You merges with SPUD

February 2001: SPUD moves from 3000 sq. ft. warehouse to 7000 sq. ft. warehouse

April 2002: Organic Planet merges with SPUD

May 2002: Urban Organics merges with SPUD

October 2002: SPUD wins Ethics in Action award for overall Ethical leadership small business

January 2003: Fresh Piks organics teams with SPUD on Vancouver Island to create 2 warehouse locations

April 2003: SPUD expands from Greater Victoria south to Sooke and north to Qualicum

January 2004: Mainland Milk joins with SPUD

May 2004: SPUD becomes first Canadian retailer to sell Fair Trade bananas and mangoes

October 2004: SPUD launches completely redesigned website

September 2005: SPUD launches in Greater Seattle.

October 2005: SPUD merges with Organic Express and launches in Calgary.

November 2005: SPUD wins Best Home Delivery System (non Farm) at 2005 COABC Organic Harvest Awards.

Spring 2008: SPUD and Pioneer Organics merge in Greater Seattle. Everyone gets lower quality in delivery as SPUD quickly becomes the bane of everyone's existence. Receiving the delivery becomes an exercise in being held up on the street for cash as inevitably items missing from the bin are stilled charged on the bill. Happen by miracle to get everything you were charged for? Don't worry, you'll still be out money for the "deposit" on the freezer packs ($3.50 for EACH ONE!) that you'll never see again.