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Tom Thumb had a delivery service during the late '90s called GroceryWorks, but it died in the dot-com bust.

And then there was Webvan that IPO'ed in Nov, 1999 with a market cap north of $4.8 billion. RIP: 2001.

Kozmo.com was another amazing one back in 2000. We would order movies and food and have them delivered in < 1 hour.

One of the delivery guys even walked through our (open) door, dropped the food on the coffee table and put the VHS tape in for us.

Sadly, those economics didn't work out.