A minimum order of $50 is required for pickup or delivery. Members pay a fee of $10 for delivery and $5 for pickup service while non-members will be charged $15 for delivery and $10 for pickup.

For now, the pickup service is only available at the North Side store, but could be added to the stores on Williamson Street and in Middleton in the next two years. The delivery service will continue to be based out of the North Side because it has more space, products and adequate cold and dry storage in the rear of the store, Skowronek said.

No new hires have been made for the project. Instead, existing staff have been trained and will work off paper lists. A developer, however, is creating a software program that will allow the system to use electronic, portable tablets. Initially, co-op officials are hoping for about 30 orders a week.

“It’s a conservative launch,” Skowronek said Tuesday as she stood in her store’s colorful produce department. “Not too crazy is OK with us.”

The co-op, founded in 1974, has seen dramatic growth over the last 20 years. Sales for this fiscal year are budgeted to be 15 times greater than in 1999, Anya Firszt, general manager of the co-op, wrote in in the co-op’s July newsletter.