While ordering groceries online is one of the fastest growing trends today, Maureen Valassori was way out ahead of the curve. The Glencoe, Ill., resident began ordering her groceries online in a bygone era—1989. It was a time when content was saved on floppy disks, computers were connected to the Internet via modems and, quite possibly, dinosaurs still walked the earth.
Valassori was among the first of the first—the first to order from the first online grocery delivery....