Whatever happened to Delivery.ca?

Delivery.ca was a wonderful system. It allowed one to leisurely order food from restaurants in one's area without the burden of talking. One could alter and tweak an order to one's satisfaction, with no one trying to rush the process.

Though I never tried it, there was also beer, wine, and flower delivery availble.

I was convinced that having survived the dot-com bubble, Delivery.ca would stand as a shining example of real convenience made possible and practical by the web. However, it was not to be.

According to my calculations, Delivery.ca went offline mid-July 2005, taking SuperWaiter's online orders with it.

I've been using Delivery.ca since June 2001. Every time I placed an order, I received a receipt by email. So... The question is, just how much money did I spend in the last four years?

Let's find out...

I exported the receipts from Outlook to a csv file, imported the csv into MySQL, then used a PHP script to run regular expressions on the bodys to get a new table with the individual data elements.





(Damn, Excel makes ugly charts!)

You can see that in 2003 I was really poor, so I didn't make many orders.

Farewell, Delivery.ca, I salute you!