By Willow (willowashmaple.sbs)
Nov. 10, 2025
It was Wednesday, February 28, 2001. I was a night person, so I would typically get up around 10 to 11 a.m.
I was half awake when I felt like a big truck had hit my apartment building. It turned out it was an earthquake, 6.8 magnitude, with its epicenter between Tacoma and Olympia. To this day, this was the only earthquake I have experienced in the Pacific Northwest.
Later that day, I ordered lunch from Kozmo.com. No minimum order and no delivery charges were Kozmo's selling point. A bike courier would deliver within one hour, as the company claimed. I got myself some Japanese-style bento lunch (I cannot remember the details on what was in it) from Madison's Grill.
That was my first and last time I used a delivery service of this type. Kozmo went out of business a few months later. Webvan survived a bit longer. The dot-com bust hit those companies hard. Almost 26 years later, I still have not used any delivery services: not Instacart, not Uber Eats, not DoorDash.
Remembering the Nisqually Earthquake
Kozmo.com: Overdue for extinction
Kozmo.com attempted to resurrect itself in 2018 and failed
Madison's Grill finally went out of business in 2014
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