Food Fight! Food Fight!

Grocery-delivery sites are hungry for your business

High shelves and horrible muzak. Aisles littered with squashed grapes and spilled cornflakes. And those gosh-darned carts that never steer straight. Yep, for most of us, the experience of grocery shopping still ranks somewhere between having a tooth pulled and changing a diaper.

But not for Liz Stone, a 33-year-old mother of two in Evanston, Ill., who pointed her mouse at Peapod.com a year ago and never looked back. "It has changed my life," she says. "Instead of running into a store with a kid under each arm, trying desperately to avoid a meltdown, buying 20 things I...

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