ADVISORY/Photo of Palo Alto Elementary School Children Surrounding a Webvan Delivery Van in Celebration of the Webvan-Schoolpop Alliance.News & Business Editors ADVISORY... for Monday Monday: see week. (Jan. 10) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: Photo of Palo Alto elementary school children surrounding a Webvan delivery van in celebration of the Webvan-Schoolpop alliance that enables online grocery shoppers to contribute funds to K-12 Schools. CONTACT: To request a photo, please call Amy Nobile, Manager, Public Relations at 650/627-3422 (e-mail: anobile@webvangroup.com) MORE INFORMATION: Please note that a full release went over Business Wire 1/10/00. Webvan Webvan was an online "credit and delivery" grocery business that went bankrupt in 2001. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, near Silicon Valley. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. Group, Inc. (WBVN), the leading online grocer, announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership with Schoolpop.com, the largest nationwide Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the fundraiser for schools, to combine two time-consuming family tasks, school fundraising
Participating in the program is simple. Customers who log on to www.webvan.com can click on a link to schoolpop.com, or they can log on directly to www.schoolpop.com, where they will be asked to select the local school they want to support. After designating a school, customers click the Webvan logo and begin shopping for groceries gro·cer·y n. pl. gro·cer·ies 1. A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies. 2. groceries Commodities sold by a grocer. , drugstore merchandise, chef-prepared meals, and other products for the home. Webvan's personal couriers will then deliver these items to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. Parents, grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl , alumni, friends and neighbors can select the school of their choice, which will receive up to four percent of their Webvan purchases. |
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