In today’s busy world, people don’t always have time for grocery shopping. Relay Foods has raised $8.25 million to do it for you.
Relay Foods is an online grocery service that currently operates in the Mid-Atlantic region. People shop online through a selection of inventory from local farms, artisan producers, and grocery stores. Relay Food gathers the order and delivers it to a pick-up spot or right to your door.
“Relay’s role in the grocery sector is one of host,” said cofounder and president Arnie Katz in an email. ”We connect growers and busy families, butchers and working moms, bakers and hardworking professionals. We add value to their relationships by increasing the transparency in the transaction. We want the farmers to be the celebrities promoting their foods, as it should be. Relay Foods is content simply to be the host that brings these two groups of people together under one roof.”
Relay’s has partnered with hundreds of merchants and the inventory is wide — be it baby food or chia seed power snacks. Shoppers can search for specific items, peruse all the offerings from a particular vendor, or look within tags like “antibiotic free” or “expectant mothers.” Clicking on a specific vendor yields their backstory. For example, if you want to buy blueberries from Agriberry Farm, you can learn that farmer Anne Geyer is committed to eco-friendly farming practices and is a lifelong berry-grower.
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