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Food Stamps: Big Heart or Big Profits?
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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriveOut" data-source="post: 2589931" data-attributes="member: 44954"><p><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/business/sorry-wal-mart-amazon-wants-your-food-stamp-customers-too/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Sorry, Wal-Mart, Amazon wants your food-stamp customers too</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p>Amazon is authorized to start the experiment this summer in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.</p><p></p><p>FreshDirect, Safeway, ShopRite and Hy-Vee are also joining the pilot program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which last year provided more than <strong>$66 billion</strong> of help to 44.2 million needy Americans. Those grocers will also be implementing the pilot in Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Iowa. This will be the first time SNAP has accepted online payment for groceries.</p><p></p><p>Low-income shoppers are an intriguing target for Amazon, which has been trying with mixed success to disrupt the $800 billion grocery market. More than 80 percent of food-stamp recipients live in or near big cities, which are served by Amazon’s vast network of warehouses and are home to the affluent and poor in close proximity. A truck delivering gluten-free chia seed bars and organic soy coffee creamer to Manhattan’s posh Upper West Side can also cart a box of cereal, bread and baby food to low-income housing projects in Harlem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DriveInDriveOut, post: 2589931, member: 44954"] [URL='http://www.seattletimes.com/business/sorry-wal-mart-amazon-wants-your-food-stamp-customers-too/'][B][SIZE=4]Sorry, Wal-Mart, Amazon wants your food-stamp customers too[/SIZE][/B][/URL] Amazon is authorized to start the experiment this summer in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. FreshDirect, Safeway, ShopRite and Hy-Vee are also joining the pilot program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which last year provided more than [B]$66 billion[/B] of help to 44.2 million needy Americans. Those grocers will also be implementing the pilot in Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Iowa. This will be the first time SNAP has accepted online payment for groceries. Low-income shoppers are an intriguing target for Amazon, which has been trying with mixed success to disrupt the $800 billion grocery market. More than 80 percent of food-stamp recipients live in or near big cities, which are served by Amazon’s vast network of warehouses and are home to the affluent and poor in close proximity. A truck delivering gluten-free chia seed bars and organic soy coffee creamer to Manhattan’s posh Upper West Side can also cart a box of cereal, bread and baby food to low-income housing projects in Harlem. [/QUOTE]
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