Looking for a greener way to shop for your groceries in Hoboken? Business entrepreneur Sinan Guven was looking for a way too, until he created Zip Grocery, an online website ordering system that allows you to order your daily groceries plus other convenience store items - even wine, from a local store in Hoboken.I sat down with Sinan Guven at La Bouche cafe to catch up and discuss his idea.
Sinan Guven has a deep interest in living green and finding ways to minimize air pollution and waste. And he came up with a great idea. Instead of ordering from big delivery chains such as Fresh Direct, who get their products from huge warehouses, that have trucks deliver to them from all over the country, and then another huge truck barreling through Hoboken, he thought, why not get our local shop owners involved in creating the same idea but on a localized platform.And ZipGrocery was born.
"The website is a work in progress, it takes lots of hours of inputting inventory to the system and working so that it functions just right", but everyday the website is developing and I am adding and approaching new vendors to add to the site - said Sinan.
All you do is log into www.zipgrocery.com, select from the items listed in one of the drop down menus, and zipgrocery will deliver to your door on either bike or foot, in a paper bag or no bag at all.
And because you are supporting your local merchants, you are doing double green duty by staying local and supporting local! Give it a try? Know of a merchant that would like to be added to Zip Grocery? Make sure to contact Sinan - by emailing SINANG@rocketmail.com
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