{"id":33295,"date":"2017-01-08T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/government-testing-online-grocery-shopping-for-food-stamp-participants"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:27","slug":"government-testing-online-grocery-shopping-for-food-stamp-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/government-testing-online-grocery-shopping-for-food-stamp-participants","title":{"rendered":"Government testing online grocery shopping for food stamp participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/government-testing-online-grocery-shopping-for-food-stamp-participants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting approach.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Families who rely on food stamps may not be left out of the future of grocery shopping after all.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, which will run for two years, will launch on <a href=\"http:\/\/Shop.safeway.com\">Shop.safeway.com<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n<p>The other <b>retailers<\/b> include Amazon, testing the program in New York, New Jersey and Maryland; Safeway, testing it in Maryland, Oregon and Washington; delivery service <strong>FreshDirect<\/strong>, testing in New York; and other regional and local grocers testing the program in New York and other East Coast states. As with the core program, SNAP participants will be able to use their benefits only to purchase eligible items online, not to pay for service or delivery charges. \u201cAllowing consumers to use their SNAP benefits in the same way you would also use a credit or debit card to purchase groceries will lead to lower prices and greater options for consumers in every corner of this city and state\u201d, said Diaz \u201cI want to thank Congressman Maloney and our NY delegation, our partners in business and the health and hunger advocates who understood the need for this pilot program and joined our efforts to bring this important new program to NY\u201d. \u201cWith the SNAP Pilot, we look forward to bringing the online purchasing option to SNAP clients and positively impacting all the communities that we serve\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/prensariotiretail.com\/2017\/01\/07\/government-testing-online-grocery-shopping-for-food-stamp.html\">http:\/\/prensariotiretail.com\/2017\/01\/07\/government-testing-o...stamp.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting approach. Families who rely on food stamps may not be left out of the future of grocery shopping after all. The pilot, which will run for two years, will launch on Shop.safeway.com in August. The other retailers include Amazon, testing the program in New York, New Jersey and Maryland; Safeway, testing it in Maryland, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65410,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions\/65410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}