http://www.alice.com/

TechCrunch (who also has a twitter account for those that follow @techcrunch ) had a wonderful link today!

It's a site that is currently in Beta, but will hopefully be open to the public soon. It's a site that allows you to buy items like toilet paper, and laundry soap, and other things without having to go to the store. Delivery is free. They carry green products, and there isn't the retail markup! TechCrunch did a comparison of a bottle of Tide liquid laundry detergent on Alice.com and Drugstore.com. On Alice.com, the price was $7.71 with discounts, nearly $6 cheaper than the price on Drugstore.com, which was $13.99. (I looked up which bottle it was on drugstore.com and will be comparing with the in store prices at Walgreens tomorrow and will post an edit to this post.)

They will also allow you to get free samples of some products.

EDIT: (6/23/09) The site is now open from Beta. Anyone Can sign up. I wasn't as impressed with the prices as I had thought I would be. The same bottle of Laundry soap is currently on sale at Walgreens for $7.99. I think where this site will be useful is on helping to cut down on "Impulse Buys" and being able to just get what you need. Alternatively I was at CostCo this week, and they had Generic Powdered Laundry Soap, that was 200 loads, for around 11 dollars.

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