
{"id":14611,"date":"2010-12-16T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14611"},"modified":"2010-12-16T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:38:24","slug":"a-six-pack-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/12\/16\/a-six-pack-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A six-pack to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Will Bryant<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking of hosting a party this holiday season, a new beer delivery service in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area has erased any good reason for you and your festive sweater to leave the houseguests thirsty. <\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Mart Express, operating out of the student-owned Rosemary Mart at 505 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill, has begun offering a beer delivery service in hopes of reducing the number of intoxicated drivers out on the streets and keeping local residents safe. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we think is good for the community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said co-founder Jared Polivka. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want people drinking and driving.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Orders can be placed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosemaryexpress.com\/\">Rosemaryexpress.com<\/a>, the store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s snazzy new website that offers customers every brand of suds they would find in a normal trip to the store. <\/p>\n<p>With everything from Pabst Blue Ribbon cases to Samuel Adams seasonal six packs, Rosemary Mart Express has the perfect stocking stuffers for the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>However, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect these sprits to arrive by reindeer. Instead, deliveries are made by a toy even Santa might envy: a silver BMW X-5. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not great on gas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Polivka, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but it makes deliveries fun.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Delivery service, between the hours of 1 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., is available to any location within 10 minutes of Franklin Street. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no delivery fee and the prices charged are exactly what customers would find in the store. <\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Connor Warnock says the idea for the service began to brew after experiences he had in London while studying abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Beer delivery services are common there, Warnock says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We thought to ourselves, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhy couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this happen in the United States?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The two entrepreneurs found an answer in close friend and Rosemary Mart owner Deya Harb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He embraced our idea with open arms,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Warnock says with a smile. <\/p>\n<p>Harb opened Rosemary Mart after working 90-hour weeks for six  years to save up the money needed to start his own business. <\/p>\n<p>Polivka and Warnock say that along with the desire to keep residents from drinking and driving, their motivation for starting the service was to help Harb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business flourish. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earned it, and we hope that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll succeed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Polivka says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/12\/16\/a-six-pack-to-go\/rosemary-market1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rosemary-Market1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rosemary-Market1-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking of hosting a party this holiday season, a new beer delivery service in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area has erased any good reason for you and your festive sweater to leave the houseguests thirsty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}