Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here Rich on Tech telling you about several
Speaker 1: apps that can help you plan the perfect Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: Most of these apps are on demand. Let's start with Zeal.
Speaker 1: This is an on demand massage app. They will bring
Speaker 1: the spa to your house. Literally, you tap a few
Speaker 1: things on the app, you say what you want, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, you'll have a licensed massage therapist
Speaker 1: at your door. And you can even do a couple's
Speaker 1: massage with them. So they will bring two therapists. They
Speaker 1: bring everything you need, They set up a bed. You
Speaker 1: have to find a place in your house where you
Speaker 1: can fit this, especially if you're gonna do the couple's massage.
Speaker 1: But I've done this before. It's really cool. I'm not
Speaker 1: a massage person, but you know, my wife loves to
Speaker 1: get these things, so you know, I play along and
Speaker 1: it's not bad. It's kind of cool. It's in your house,
Speaker 1: you don't have to leave. The only thing you do
Speaker 1: need to know you have to supply a fresh set
Speaker 1: of sheets, so you do need a sheet for their
Speaker 1: bed and then of course a top sheet as well.
Speaker 1: So again that one is called Zeal and they will
Speaker 1: bring the massage to you. Now, if you need some wine,
Speaker 1: maybe some wine, a nice bottle of champagne, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you can check out the alcohol delivery app Drizzly. They
Speaker 1: have a selection over fifteen hundred products, including wine, beer,
Speaker 1: and spirits. You can pay and tip from inside the app,
Speaker 1: so I know a lot of people don't carry around
Speaker 1: cash anymore. You can tip right from inside and basically
Speaker 1: the order is delivered to your door in about an hour,
Speaker 1: and this all comes from participating local businesses. Again, you
Speaker 1: have to be twenty one to use this app. You
Speaker 1: know that though it's called Drizzly and it's an alcohol
Speaker 1: delivery app. I've seen my friends use this at a
Speaker 1: poker game I was at, so that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I have not used this one myself at home, but
Speaker 1: we did test out a delivery to the station and
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. They were here at the exact
Speaker 1: time they said they would be all right. Moving on. Now,
Speaker 1: you need some flowers, how about a website called The
Speaker 1: Book's Company. The Books Company has some really fresh flowers
Speaker 1: and the reason why their flowers are so fresh is
Speaker 1: because they ship them directly from the farm. So yes,
Speaker 1: your flowers come right from places like South America, Ecuador
Speaker 1: and that's it. They cut them there and then they
Speaker 1: put them in a box and they send them to you.
Speaker 1: So we visited their facility in Marina del Rey and
Speaker 1: it's very nice, best smelling place I've ever been in.
Speaker 1: They say, if you take care of your bouquet, it
Speaker 1: can last weeks instead of days. I was able to
Speaker 1: keep the bouquet that they gave me just over a week,
Speaker 1: and they told me three ways to keep your flowers fresh.
Speaker 1: Number one, you got to snip the ends on a
Speaker 1: slant like, kind of on an angle, not straight, and
Speaker 1: that helps them drink water. The second thing is that
Speaker 1: you want to change that water every single day. And
Speaker 1: the third thing is definitely used just a little drop
Speaker 1: of food or maybe a tiny drop of bleach, or
Speaker 1: even vodka. You can put a little tiny drop of
Speaker 1: vodka in there, and all three of those things will
Speaker 1: help to cut down on bacteria. And that's really what's
Speaker 1: killing those flowers that are in that vase. So check
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Speaker 1: customer or an existing customer. So thanks to Books for
Speaker 1: setting that up. All right. Finally, one more thing to
Speaker 1: try out door dash dot com. Door dash is a
Speaker 1: food delivery service, and I know there's a million of
Speaker 1: these out there. What's cool about DoorDash is a couple
Speaker 1: of things They have like pretty much every restaurant you
Speaker 1: could ever imagine signed up with them. And also, you
Speaker 1: can filter your restaurant results by the lowest delivery fee,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of a neat way to find Let's
Speaker 1: say you don't want to pay any sort of delivery fee,
Speaker 1: you can sort them by that delivery fee and see
Speaker 1: which ones are delivering for free. And sometimes restaurants do that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a're on special they'll do that as well. And
Speaker 1: if you want to save some cash, of course go
Speaker 1: with a low delivery fee, But if you want to
Speaker 1: go with top rated restaurants, you can go and sort
Speaker 1: that way as while some of the other services out
Speaker 1: there don't let you sort the restaurants as easily as DoorDash.
Speaker 1: So that's what we like about them. We interview the
Speaker 1: CEO and co founder of DoorDash, nice guy, and just
Speaker 1: basically said that you know, consumers want to save money,
Speaker 1: they want to, you know, have us do the delivery
Speaker 1: for them. And it's also a good way for restaurants
Speaker 1: that don't normally do their own delivery to kind of
Speaker 1: outsource their delivery to a third party, and DoorDash and
Speaker 1: all these other companies make that possible. So I loved
Speaker 1: when I ordered from DoorDash how they gave me the
Speaker 1: exact moment the person would ring my doorbell and no joke,
Speaker 1: that's the exact time they rang my doorbell. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that was just pretty random, but that's they say
Speaker 1: their technology does. All Right, there you have it, four
Speaker 1: ways to deliver the perfect Valentine's Day through apps. If
Speaker 1: you want links all these things, go to the website
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich DeMuro. See you next time.