Category Archives: Tips

Getting the Most Out of Relay: Tags

March is National Nutriton Month and this year's theme is "Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day!" At Relay, we want to help you eat right your way while making your grocery shopping experience as easy as possible. We know that our customers have different health concerns and dietary preferences, so we try our best to make sure our products, all 10,000+ of them, are labeled correctly and easy to find through searches. Today, we want to share a little guide to our labels (called tags) so you know exactly what they mean and can rest assured you're getting a product that meets your needs. Antibiotic-Free: Provides reassurance that the animals used for meat, milk, or eggs were not raised with Read more …

The Future of Relay Foods

Dear Relay Customers, Partners, and Friends, From everyone here at Relay Foods, I'm writing to thank you for your part in making 2012 a successful and exciting year for our young company. Of course, you'll have to forgive me for the belated thank-you note – the month of January was an intense four weeks of planning and executing our first-ever company-wide conference and planning retreat, known as Relay Roundup. Many thanks for your ongoing support It's only with your help that Relay made it through another year as a startup. When we launched this effort four years ago, the vision was to use technology to dramatically improve the way we all shop for food. We would make our customers' lives Read more …

Getting the Most Out of Relay: Substitutions

For today's blog post, a little change of pace: our Getting the Most Out of Relay series helps you navigate the brave new world of online groceries. Today's topic: Substitutions. At Relay, we take fulfilling your orders seriously and strive to have 100% fulfillment (that is, getting everything on your list just right). Still, sometimes our vendor partners simply don’t have what you ordered in stock – and when you think about it, it's kind of amazing that they manage to get almost everything right, given a less-than-24 hour turnaround time! So, say you ordered your favorite just-picked carrots, but our farmer partner doesn't have enough ripened to fulfill all his Relay orders for the Read more …

Tidbits and Bites: News and Links for Friday, January 27

A few things we've been reading this week: Sounds like the C'ville's Green Scene needs to get on the bandwagon and start using Relay totes! Planning to make this kale-butternut (favorite winter veggies!) salad from Richmond Food Collective. A nice review of yours truly (Relay) from Richmondmom.com. Further confirmation that we should be eating locally-raised meat from farmers we trust! By this point, you probably already have 101Cookbooks on your feed reader, but this Miso Sesame Winter Squash bears highlighting. Apropos of nothing, this video is guaranteed to make you hungry for vegetables. A Congressional Research Service report with great news we already know -- local Read more …

What’s New At Relay: Week of January 22, 2012

New Products C'ville: Mad Hatter Super-Condiment: With habanero peppers, pineapple, and extra virgin olive oil, Mad Hatter is an up-and-coming foodie sensation made locally in Charlottesville. One Relayer has already given a 5-star review: "The best thing for everything! If you could only have one condiment, this would be it! Oysters, shrimp, beef, chicken, fish, soup, salad, marinade, dip, pretty much everything. Really, really good!" Let us know what you think! Well Hung Vineyard Viognier 2010: C'ville Relayer Colin splits his time between working for Relay and helping his mother, Amy Steers, a joint owner of Well Hung Vineyard. We're excited to try this bright and refreshing Viognier, Read more …