Zoomer to Boomers’ Satisfied Customers
Teen-Founded Grocery Delivery Service Expands Rapidly in COVID-19 Era
“I was running out of fresh fruit,” explained Maureen “Mo” McFadden of how she heard about the three-week-old grocery delivery service Zoomers to Boomers last week. A well-known public relations consultant who’s worked in Santa Barbara for decades, McFadden is 68 years old, which puts her in the high-risk category for catching a bad case of COVID-19.
“I love creative people, so the name of the group made me smile,” she said of the service, which was started on March 18 by San Marcos High student Daniel Goldberg and has since expanded to multiple cities. “I read their webpage and ordered on Wednesday late morning. They said the groceries would be delivered in 24 hours.”
A day later, McFadden’s order arrived. “My shopper, Gage [Heinze], brought the right stuff,” she explained. From Trader Joe’s, there were raspberries, blueberries, avocados, pears, salsa verde, and Indian tikka packets — the correct kind, as she had added a note for “anything but the red package.”
