Food Stamps

Walmart Expands EBT Grocery Card Acceptance Online
Walmart Expands EBT Grocery Card Acceptance Online
June 25, 2019  |  Retail

Walmart will now accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to pay for online grocery orders at all of its pickup locations, according to a report....

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SNAP Recipients In NY Can Order Groceries From Walmart, Amazon
SNAP Recipients In NY Can Order Groceries From Walmart, Amazon
April 18, 2019  |  Retail

Big news is in the offing for Walmart, Amazon and other chains that offer grocery ordering online – they have gotten a formal “green light”...

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DoorDash, mRelief Pair On Food Stamps For Low-Wage Workers
DoorDash, mRelief Pair On Food Stamps For Low-Wage Workers
February 04, 2019  |  Financial Inclusion

Startup mRelief, which helps low-income workers access food stamps, is teaming up with food delivery startup DoorDash to offer DoorDash credit to people eligible for...

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Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles
Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles
May 04, 2018  |  Retail

An app designed to make life easier for food stamp recipients is expanding the commerce-related services it offers to low-income Americans, but a new challenge...

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Tempest In A Meal Box?
Tempest In A Meal Box?
February 16, 2018  |  Investments

Tempest in a (meal) box?   Attention turned to meal kits as the government invoked “Blue Apron” as a model of sorts for a new food...

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Closing The Loop Between Food Stamps And Food On The Table
Closing The Loop Between Food Stamps And Food On The Table
January 15, 2018  |  data enablers

There’s a disconnect between food stamps and the people who need them. To use San Francisco as an example, around one in four people face...

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Walmart Pilots Food Stamps Program For Online Groceries
Walmart Pilots Food Stamps Program For Online Groceries
September 20, 2017  |  Retail

Walmart is expanding its Online Grocery Pickup to more people, rolling out an option that enables customers to use their EBT card (which conveys SNAP...

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Fresh EBT’s Social Safety Net Tech Upgrade
Fresh EBT’s Social Safety Net Tech Upgrade
May 12, 2017  |  Financial Inclusion

It’s a set of statistics that all of us have heard many times before: In the U.S., nearly half of the population doesn’t have $400...

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Fresh EBT Makes Food Stamps Digital
Fresh EBT Makes Food Stamps Digital
April 28, 2017  |  Mobile Applications

Propel, the startup that helps people who receive food stamps manage their benefits, announced Thursday (April 27) that it raised $4 million in seed venture...

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