Peapod Online Shopping and Home Delivery Service Comes to the Circle City

CHICAGO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Internet grocer Peapod, LLC announced the expansion of service to Indianapolis.  Beginning today, customers can log on to Peapod.com; deliveries begin today, October 19th as well.

Residents in Marion, Hamilton, Hendricks and Johnson counties will now have the convenience and ease of shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, meat and dairy, as well as best-selling national brands and private labels, all at the click of a mouse. In addition, Peapod recently launched PeapodMobile. The free app, which is available for iPhone/iTouch, Android, and Palm Pre users, contains Peapod's most convenient shopping features along with some features exclusively available to mobile users.

"Peapod is excited to serve Indianapolis," says Peapod President Andrew Parkinson. "As always, we will strive to provide a wide selection of well-priced, top-quality, fresh products with the ease of Internet shopping and home delivery."

Just one simple tap away, www.peapod.com offers shoppers the ability to create personal lists, read nutrition information, sort products rapidly by price or by nutrition criteria, and take advantage of personalized online coupons. Groceries can be delivered as soon as the next day after the order is placed. Arrangements can also be made to fit the shopper's schedule, even allowing deliveries when the customer isn't home.

Peapod will fill a niche in the Indy market by offering an alternative shopping experience for time-strapped families and busy professionals.  

"At Peapod we try to amaze and delight every customer." says Parkinson. "We know that nobody is fresher when it comes to produce and we want to prove it. Peapod is offering a special treat for its first-time customers in Indianapolis--a free sampling of our best-of-the-season produce!"

About Peapod

Founded in 1989 as a smart shopping option for busy people, Peapod today stands as the country's leading Internet grocer, serving 23 U.S. markets in communities in the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire and New Jersey. The Skokie, Ill.-based company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold in The Netherlands, has achieved over 16 million deliveries since its late 1980s inception. For more information on Peapod, call 1.800.5.PEAPOD (573.2763); e-mail [email protected] or visit www.peapod.com.

SOURCE Peapod, LLC