 991229 ShopLink.com Adds 13 New Locations in CT And NYDecember 20, 1999 Westwood, MA - ShopLink.com, a leading on-line provider of grocery shopping and household services with a focus on superior fresh food quality and selection, announced it has registered and installed more than 1,300 customers in Connecticut and New York and will offer service to an additional 13 locations. ShopLink.com will make its first delivery to Fairfield and New Haven counties, Connecticut, and Westchester county, New York, customers in January 2000. Due to demand, ShopLink.com will expand service to the following additional locations: Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, North Haven Southbury, Wallingford and Woodbridge, Connecticut and Eastchester and Pound Ridge, New York. Original locations in the ShopLink.com service area include: Bethel, Botsford, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Cos Cob, Danbury, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Georgetown, Greens Farms, Greenwich, Hawleyville, Milford, Monroe, New Canaan, Newtown, Norwalk, Old Greenwich, Orange, Redding, Redding Center, Redding Ridge, Ridgefield, Riverside, Sandy Hook, Shelton, Southport, Stamford, Stevenson, Stratford, Trumbull, West Haven, Weston, Westport and Wilton, Connecticut and Bronxville, Harrison, Hartsdale, Mamroneck, New Rochelle, Rye, Scarsdale and White Plains, New York. “The response from the Connecticut and New York area has been fantastic,” said John R. Icke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ShopLink.com. “We have registered more than 1,300 customers in the past eight weeks in our second market, Connecticut and New York, and will begin deliveries in early January 2000. We will keep extending our service area as ShopLink.com continues to grow, both in existing markets and by launching new ones.” ShopLink.com has the highest frequency of purchase and customer retention rate in this fast emerging industry. Including the CT/NY facility, ShopLink.com will launch three facilities in 2000. By the end of 2003, ShopLink.com will operate a total of 17 facilities serving diverse new markets. Additionally, ShopLink.com has the fastest growth rate in the Boston marketplace, the first market launched. ShopLink.com, which currently serves more than 80 suburban communities in the Boston area, has progressed rapidly since it began deliveries in October 1997.
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