On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 18:11:47 +0100, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

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>
> "Kalmia" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Cheryl,
> >
> > How did they bill? Per spent lb of food schlepped? Distance to your
> > house? Time spent gathering the stuff? I just wonder how they figured the
> > fee.
> >
> > My mother used to call an indep. mkt which catered to the carriage trade,
> > and would deliver anything you wanted, be it a bottle of milk or a hundred
> > dollar order, for a flat fee of five bucks. Sadly, that market folded.
> > The rich, the ill, the elderly,-- I bet even the lazy-- loved that
> > delivery system. They had great meat, produce, and also odd items you
> > cudn't find in the the big chains.
>
> schlepped = delivered?
>
carried


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