Groceries on Order

One of the places we will visit is a tiny village with about 150 residents tucked onto a Swiss mountainside.

No roads lead to it. You have to take a cablecar not unlike this one:

There is no grocery store and the only "restaurant" is the kitchen of a hostel.

We've got accommodations with kitchens so all I needed to do was find some groceries.

There is a grocery store in the next village up, but it will be closed for the night by the time we get there.

After looking into this issue, I learned that one of the biggest grocery chains in Switzerland ("coop") has online shopping ("coop@home") where I was able to order food, coffee, beer and wine too! The website can be configured for the English language, so the names of the products will be seen in English. (The German you see on the shopping list below was English on the shopping page: Red Wine Vinegar with Raspberries.)

The groceries will be delivered by the Swiss Post right to the door on the day that we arrive.

You have to give them some lead time; I placed my order today from my home in Texas.

Finally -- a useful purpose for the Internet!