Amazon Fresh

I've always secretly hoped that grocery stores would open a drive up option for shoppers who may somehow be challenged to make it into the store (kids, perhaps). Ahh. This idea sounds so American, and throws dirt in the face of someone who also loves eating out of the garden, etc.
AmazonFresh is a new delivery service testing out the market in our neighbourhood. I've just submitted my first order. When i wake up in the morning, there should be fresh milk waiting for my post-walk/run latte.

I'm currently reading Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." As a result, i'm debating the practice of home grocery delivery. I wonder on what side of the fence it would fall.
The place of origin isn't listed for the fresh produce, so i can expect those items are coming from distant and cheaper pastures. You can get organic produce but what about the idea of sustainability. With Amazon Fresh, am i using more or less gas? What about the juice to run all those darn servers?

Anyways, i guess i can ponder all this tomorrow morning, as i sip my latte...

Here are a couple of quotations from Kingsolver's book,

"The average food item on a US grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations."

"In the grocery store checkout corral, we're more likely to learn which TV stars are secretly fornicating than to inquire as to the whereabouts of the people who grew the cucumbers and melons in our cart."

p.s. Let me know if you have a milking cow for sale.