FreshDirect, the popular New York grocery delivery service, is expanding to Washington.
Its mission: To bring produce, dairy and meat from local farms, fisheries and cattle ranches straight to peoples’ homes in about half the time it would take a traditional supermarket. Local selections will include shell crab, oysters and rockfish from the Chesapeake Bay, angus beef from Maryland farms and organic chicken from Shenandoah Valley Organic in Harrisonburg, Va.
“If it typically takes 10 days for a product to get from farm to customer, we’ll do it in five,” said Jason Ackerman, the company’s co-founder and chief executive.
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