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COAST RIVER BUSINESS JOURNAL BUSINESS NEWS JULY 2022 • 9 Delivery service looks to fi ll shopping gaps on the coast that I would love to wear, but they’ve just sat in my closet because I work 50 hours a week, and I don’t have a way to get my clothes clean,” Sul- livan-Anderson said. “It just can be inconvenient for people.” By ALEXIS WEISEND Jessica Newhall, the associate director of the Coast River Business Journal Clatsop Community College Small Business Tayler Sullivan-Anderson had just started her Development Center, said the pandemic gave business, North Coast Delivery Service, when a rise to a lot more delivery services, shifting con- sumer trends toward more online ordering, curb- winter storm hit Astoria in December . Several of her customers were snowed in — side pickup and delivery. Large delivery businesses like DoorD ash and one with a baby boy and no diapers. Although Sullivan-Anderson normally deliv- Instacart have found success , but Sullivan-Ander- ers food and dry cleaning, she knew she had to son wanted to bring in a local company that makes help. So she drove around on icy roads, picking personal connections with the community. Her husband, Ryan Anderson, said it’s Sul- up necessities and delivering them to people stuck livan-Anderson’s special touches that make her inside. “I’m a member of the community,” she said. business unique. A customer had asked Sullivan-Anderson to “It’s not this large corporation coming in. I’m a mom and a wife trying to get through pre-nursing pick up a certain kind of tulip for her, but they were sold out when she arrived, school.” Anderson said. The next Sullivan-Anderson grew week, she went back and up in Multnomah County showed up on the custom- surrounded by her favor- er’s doorstep with the tulips ite stores like Trader Joe’s as a surprise. and Whole Foods Market. “It’s that personal When she moved to Astoria touch,” he said. “That cus- in 2015, stores that used to tomer service and just kind be a walk away were now a of making people feel extra few hours of driving. special or feel like they have “When I would go into someone in the community the Portland area, I had peo- that’s really going to help ple asking like, ‘Hey, would them out.” you stop at Trader Joe’s Jane Coloccia has been and grab me a couple of a loyal customer of North things?’” she said. Coast Delivery Service She realized people on since its inception. She said the coast often make trips Sullivan-Anderson remem- to Portland just to shop at Tayler Sullivan-Anderson, bers what she likes and stores the local commu- owner of North Coast Delivery occasionally surprises with nity doesn’t off er. P eople Service her favorite items that have also want the convenience returned to a store. of staying home, especially “I just like that she’s personalized about it and during the pandemic. She made a Facebook post asking if people in will chitchat and kind of get to know you,” Coloc- Clatsop County would be interested in a local ser- cia said. North Coast Delivery Service delivers to Clat- vice like Instacart for people’s favorite stores in the sop County and northern Tillamook County in Ore- Portland area. T he response was overwhelming. She started making trips to Portland on Fridays, gon and Pacifi c County and Wahkiakum County stopping at places like Crumbl Cookies, Trader in Washington state. However, Sullivan-Anderson Joe’s, Whole Foods Market and Target to pick up — currently the sole employee of her business — hopes to eventually have a fl eet of refrigerator vans orders. A customer asked if Sullivan-Anderson would that deliver to the entire coast. She especially wants to focus on providing for be interested in dropping off and picking up dry elderly people or those with mobility issues. cleaning while she was making trips to the city. “A big thing for me is just taking care of peo- Astoria lost its only dry cleaner, Astoria Clean- ple,” she said. “That’s why I want to go into nurs- ers, during the pandemic . “I had a gal say, ‘I’ve got all these dresses ing is because helping people is a big thing for me.” A shopping link to the Portland metro area ‘A BIG THING FOR ME IS JUST TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE. 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