T & Y Bakery

T&Y Bakery as I have posted before has the absolute best chocolate chip cookies in town. The other items I've had from here have been excellent as well. I've been ordering from here throughout the pandemic and was hoping to continue since our kids are still too young to be vaccinated and we're still not going anywhere. Unfortunately the Mercato service seems to have changed how they handle orders from the Farmers Market. I usually order from 4 or 5 different vendors, and then the orders were assembled in one location at the market and picked up by one driver. My total delivery fee would be reasonable as most of the individual vendors only had a small fee. For the first year I even had a subscription to Mercato which got me free delivery, but they make you sign up for a year at a time, which I can't justify anymore knowing that hopefully soon I'll be able to go out to stores again (if there were a monthly payment option I'd definitely still be on it.) Now, the delivery fee for the T&Y Bakery portion of the delivery has gone from $1 to $4.99, and the deliveries from the different vendors were all assigned to different Doordash drivers, meaning 4 or 5 deliveries all arriving at around the same time that I need to keep track of (and since my address has a 1/2 in it that messes up delivery drivers' GPS systems, this just exponentially increases the possibility of a crucial part of my order ending up at the wrong address.) I simply can't justify regularly paying $5 on delivery of just 3 cookies, no matter how good they are; and I don't really need more than this on a regular basis. This time Mercato had a $25 off coupon for Thanksgiving that just about covered all those extra delivery fees but I doubt they are going to have too many of those in the future, so unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to order from this service anymore! I'll definitely plan on shopping at T&Y in person when I can after the pandemic is over for us -- we used to eat at the Market every week or two, so that part will be easy. I'm holding out hope that the Farmers Market can just start up their own delivery service. A comprehensive delivery system for the Market that allows orders from more than one vendor would be really great, and since Mercato already contracts its deliveries to Doordash it could probably just use Doordash drivers also. Something to think about!