U.S. pilot program allows online grocery shopping with food stamps

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Yahoo Finance  Nandita Bose 4/18/2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday said it has launched a pilot program in New York that allows consumers dependant on food stamps to use them to buy groceries online, a move that is likely to boost sales at retailers like Walmart Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

Both companies are participating in the initial pilot launch with Wakefern Food Corp's ShopRite supermarket chain expected to join the program early next week, the USDA said. Walmart will offer the service in upstate New York, while ShopRite and Amazon will service the New York City area.

Food stamps are part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides free food to some 40 million Americans, or about 12 percent of the total U.S. population.

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[SZonian]

"...free..."  yeah, sure..."free".

So now they can purchase their "free" food in complete anonymity.  We won't be subjected to seeing carts full of high end items provided at taxpayer expense, err, let me correct that..."free".