Students and senior citizens now can order products and food to be delivered directly to the doorsteps of their homes or residence hall rooms, saving them time, money and space.

Online service company Survivor Warehouse has been in business for a year and is committed to providing service to college students and to senior citizens who don’t have assistance when they want to shop at the grocery store.

Company spokeswoman Lisa Bach said the annual membership fee for the service is $10, which comes out to 83 cents a month. Each product box is delivered at a flat rate of $19.95 per order, plus shipping and handling.

“Students and senior citizens who use our service will have their products delivered to their front door and won’t have to sit around and wait for someone to take them shopping,” Bach said.

Members receive monthly Campus Survival Kits. According to www.campussurvivor.com, each kit has a retail product value of more than $40 and a shipping value of up to $17 depending on the location shipped.

According to the site, a typical kit weighs about 10 pounds, and contains a month’s supply of the following items: Bounty paper towels, Scott or Charmin toilet paper, a Kleenex tissue box, Gillette razors, Edge shaving cream with aloe, Ivory soap, detergent for four loads (Tide, Wisk, etc.), Band-Aids, shampoo (VO5, Pert, etc.), lotion (St. Ives, Suave, etc.), deodorant (Sure, Suave, Right Guard, etc.), toothpaste (Crest, Pepsodent, Aim, etc.), Q-tips brand cotton swabs, plus a variety of snacks and school supplies including but not limited to a writing pad or notebook, pen, highlighter, CDs, envelopes, Post-it notepad, Swiss Miss hot chocolate, Yoo Hoo, Lipton tea, popcorn, Kraft Mac ’n’ cheese, Del Monte fruit cup, Kellogg’s cereal, Quaker oatmeal, crackers and cheese and more.

Company founder Randi Altschul came up with the idea after hearing how family members had to hitch rides to the grocery store as freshmen and sophomores at college, because they didn’t have cars.

Altschul said that most parents who order for their kids also order for their elderly parents.

“Everyone wants convenience and reliability, and that’s the service we provide,” Altschul said. “We sometimes put in extra things to test the market once a month to see what people would like and would not like.”

Jeff Clark, the company’s 22-year-old CEO, said he wants to make things happen and wants to provide the best service possible for senior citizens and students.

Clark said the most important thing people like when it comes to them is their consistency, reliability and the products they provide.

Chris Fisher, a junior communication media studies major who lives in Douglas Hall, said that while he does have a car on campus, there was a time when he didn’t and getting to Wal-Mart was somewhat of a hassle.

“Provided that the items included in the survival package are useful, I could see this program as potentially being a viable option for myself, others and for the impaired,” Fisher said.

Howaida El-Khabiry, a senior psychology major who lives on campus, said the kit sounds like a good idea.

“It sounds very convenient for students who miss the No. 7 bus to Wal-Mart, considering it only runs about once an hour,” El-Khabiry said. “With this service, students don’t have to worry about missing a bus. They just have to make sure they’re around when their package arrives.”

For information, students interested in the service can visit www.campussurvivor.com, and senior citizens interested in the senior service can visit www.seniorsurvivor.com.