I recently learned that the average round trip to the grocery store is 7.6 miles in a car.
Compare this to the average miles driven for a single Harvie delivery — 1.1 miles. This includes the overhead of a round trip to the distribution center and back. That is an 85% reduction in the environmental impact of the last mile of your groceries.
With the recent increase in gas prices our distribution system is even more efficient compared to all of us driving to the grocery store separately!
Our advantage is that we deliver to a different set of zip codes each day, so when we go Mt. Washington or Moon Township we are delivering to many households in the area. We pack each truck full of boxes and we have an extremely efficient route compared to other grocery delivery services.
This saving doesn’t even include the time investment of going to the grocery store — the average trip to the grocery store takes 41 minutes. Those 41 minutes can now be used for cooking a great meal, spending time with your kids, or whatever other way you like to save the planet.
Think about your weekly routine: how much time do you spend waiting in line at the grocery store? Wandering aisles to find one ingredient? Driving in circles around the parking lot? Harvie is a way around this — and in turn, comes with many other environmental, social, and gastronomical benefits.
Learn more about how you can stop waiting in grocery store lines.