the FreshDirect Web site features around 3,000 perishables and 3000 packaged goods compared to the typical 25,000 packaged goods and middle-level distributors and the huge chains 2,200 perishable items that a typical grocery store offers. To do so, FreshDirect created the most modern automated perishable food processing plant in the United States. While most of the factory is kept at 36 degrees to ensure freshness and quality control, dedicated areas vary from a low of minus 25 degrees for frozen foods to a high of 62 degrees in one of its specially designed fruit and vegetable rooms. At the factory, FreshDirect butchers meat from whole carcasses, makes its own sausage, cuts up its own fish, grinds coffee, bakes bread and pastries, and cooks entire prepared meals. FreshDirect employs the same "make-to-order" manufacturer-direct philosophy as does Dell Cleanliness is an obsession- the factory was built to exceed us. Department of Agriculture standards