ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: These days, more and more businesses are going online to be competitive. CNN's Keith Oppenheim reports on the growing trend.</s>KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the Chicago dispatch center for a new company called Nowdocs.com, a service that receives documents online, prints and binds those companies in color, then delivers to customers the same day, usually in about two hours. Nowdocs is operating in 13 cities, trying to break into the delivery world with an electronic twist. (on camera): Nowdocs, in a sense, is doing what start-ups have always done, finding the ideal middle man role to help customers do business better and faster. But keep in mind, you don't have to be wearing a suit and tie at the office to appreciate the benefits of a dot.com delivery. (voice-over): Patty Fitzgibbons is getting her groceries, but she never left home to buy them. Patty made all her choices online at Peapod.com. This Chicago-based company, now 11 years old, is trying to get customers to shop in a different way.</s>PATTY FITZGIBBONS, PEAPOD SHOPPER: We find that we actually spend less money on groceries because we don't impulse buy and we buy on sale.</s>OPPENHEIM: Peapod shoppers go online one day, the food comes at a set time the next for an average delivery fee of $5. Peapod now has a number of competitors, a sign that dot.coms are bringing more of the marketplace to the computer screen. Keith Oppenheim, Chicago.
Dot.Coms bring Marketplace to the Computer Screen