Friends,

When we launched GroceryHero more than four months ago, we wanted to help front line medical workers who were unable to get a timely grocery delivery, and did not want to go into grocery stores and risk additional Covid-19 exposure. We hoped to find even a few dozen intrepid Canadians willing to pick up a few extra bags of groceries for a medical worker in their neighbourhood.

Almost 8,000 Canadians from coast to coast — amazing, generous, Good Samaritans just like you — stepped up to help. Because of you, we've made almost 4,000 matches of a GroceryHero with a medical worker, with over 70% of those matches between Canadians who live within 1km of each other. That's almost 4,000 medical workers who were able to focus on the fight against COVID-19, while a new friend in their neighbourhood took care of grocery delivery.

We had one more hope when we started this project: that GroceryHero would become obsolete as quickly as possible, as Canada bent the curve of Covid-19. With every part of Canada now into a positive phase of reopening, that day has arrived, and we could not be more happy, grateful, and relieved. Signups have slowed to nearly zero, and with that, we are officially hitting pause on new GroceryHero signups.

To those of you who've created long-lasting bonds with your match, we encourage you to keep in touch, and continue to look out for one another. Based on the heartwarming testimonials we've heard from hundreds of you, we are confident you will!

So, one last time: thank you to every single one of you, the heroes who stepped up to demonstrate the spirit of our communities and our entire country. Stay safe, and keep on reaching out to help your neighbours!

- The GroceryHero team — Elliott, Hemanth, Luca, Max, and Matthew

P.S. We will continue to check the GroceryHero email account for another week or so to tie up loose ends, and to figure out how to stay connected with anyone who wishes to moving forward. We would also be remiss if we didn't give a shout out to some of the wonderful folks who've helped spread the word (thanks Doug, and Chrystia), and quite a few individuals (thanks Mohamad, Geoff Sharpe, Brian Gray, Dave Trafford, Alexandre Torres, and Joe O'Connor), media outlets, and organizations who have stepped up to provide us timely in-kind / pro bono help (thanks to Google Canada, Facebook, Outpost, Osler LLP, Deloitte Canada, Slack, Mailchimp, Kijiji, and Automate.io) so we could keep up with demand.