Overstock.com's Farmers Market Adds Home Delivery For Fresh Food & Accepts Bitcoin

Overstock.com's Farmers Market Adds Home Delivery For Fresh Food & Accepts Bitcoin

Farmers Market, an online fresh food business operated by Overstock.com, recently added a home delivery service, making it one of the few such services to accept bitcoin. The home delivery service complements Fresh Market's drop-ship delivery program and makes Farmers Market one of the few online fresh food merchants that accepts bitcoin in addition to other forms of payment. Farmers Market allows customers to log onto its website, enter their zip code, select locally-grown food and have it delivered by a local delivery service. Parent company Overstock.com began accepting bitcoin as a....


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