USDA's online grocery pilot for SNAP recipients is available only through Amazon, Walmart, Aldi and a few other retailers sprinkled across the country. That does not include smaller community stores, farmers markets or discounters where cents on the dollar usually go further. The biggest challenge is that the Agriculture Department must approve every store in each state to take payment through a PIN system, a process that can take a full year and has created a huge backlog.
SNAP recipients purchasing food online can spend more than a third of their total benefits – anywhere from $45 to $98 – on one purchase because of higher food costs and limited inventory, according to exclusive data shared with USA TODAY obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests byworking to address food insecurity and policy.
With Amazon, SNAP beneficiaries customers can access more than 100,000 items and get free shipping on orders over $25. SNAP beneficiaries also have complimentary access to Amazon Fresh with free shipping on orders over $35 in most states. That's the case for Jackie Klade, 36, of Wasau, Wisconsin, who can't find a store to deliver groceries free in her hometown.
Yes to eat people must go to the store. Such a revelation.
So people who have money don't eat or need to go to grocery stores to buy groceries? This is a stupid fucking headline
Driving a car isnt safe but we find a way to survive. Grocery shoppers will be fine.
It isn’t safe... yet it’s the one thing that has not been cancelled and continues uninterrupted ... give me a break with the headlines..
Why is this article making it about stamps? Most people don't even have grocery delivery service avaible where they live. No grocery store can be 100% safe, I suppose, but most of them are safe enough. Otherwise, cases would be far worse world wide.
Go every week. No problems!
Amazon buy a big ad? In a world of headlines clearly designed to stoke fear and take advantage you have out done yourselves. What a bowl of turds you people are
This is idiotic.
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Grocery stores are as safe as you behave. mask up wash hands and distance. Fact is the bigger problem is not the virus but malnutrition. Get food you want and can afford and stay healthy by staying fed.
Went today...no mask..no problem. People are getting tired of these lies.
Biden's America
Which clown at the USA today wrote this But you can go to the airport and get on a large metal tube for 4 1/2 hours Have you seen the parking lot at the Home Depot You guys at this paper are idiots
Amazon fresh takes EBT...
Ridiculous
Neither is walking across the street but you have to eat.
A great big F government.
Well, it could be worse...I have to go to the grocery store AND pay for it.
Use a mask, wash your hands.
Yes it is safe. Who wrote this
“She turned to online grocery shopping to stay safe, but her monthly SNAP allotment of $55 barely covers the family's essential needs, and that's before the tip and delivery fee. ”US covid19
“Both 10-year-old Aiden and 8-year-old Rosie are on the autism spectrum and legally disabled. Wilt, a 35-year-old single mom, said she's too scared to leave the house herself, let alone go outside with her kids, who can't wear face masks. ” US covid19
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