Order Reading Terminal Market Goods Online... For Now

PHILADELPHIA – Do you love all the culinary wonders the Reading Terminal Market has to offer, but hate lines, crowds, and aimless tourists? Well then the market has just the service for you, for a limited time only, however.

Select merchants in the market will be offering online shopping for in person pick up ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, the market announced recently.

The process (which you should of course trust) is not complicated, thankfully.

Go online here and select the merchants you want to buy from. Then, you can peruse what that merchant is offering through the online sales.

Click on the item you want, select the quantity, click add to cart, and then either keep browsing or click on the "cart" button to check out digitally, where you will pay for the items and select a pick up time.

When your order is complete, staff will shop at the market for you and store your items in a fridge, freezer, or dry storage unit to await pick up.

Should any items you chose not be available, market staff will notify you when you pick up your items and provide a refund.

Shoppers will get a "shipping confirmation" notification telling them their order is ready for pickup. The market asks that shoppers coming to pick up online orders call when they are about 10 minutes away so staff can guide them to the right pick up spot.

Then at the pick up location, your shopper will be ready there with your items.

The pick up location is at 11th and Arch streets in the left lane under the underpass, by door #1/the Blue Mountain Vineyards door.

All orders will have a $5 service fee tacked onto the total price of an order.

See more details on the online ordering/pick up service here.

Customers line up for meat and sausage inside Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market on Tuesday, July 17, 2007. (AP Photo/George Widman)