With many low-income consumers struggling with the impacts of the reduction in their benefits, Kroger is seeing its more budget-pressured customers pull back. The United States’ leading pure-play grocer shared on a call with analysts Friday (Sept . 8) accompanying its second quarter Fiscal 2023...
In an effort to gain share of consumers’ grocery spending both from traditional brick-and-mortar grocers and from aggregator rivals such as Instacart, DoorDash is expanding its audience by adding the ability to pay via Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT). At Dash...
High inflation and reduced government aid have led to a spike in food bank demand. A report Sunday (May 7) by Bloomberg News illustrates this trend with the example of the Red Cross’ food pantry in Boston, which in April saw the highest monthly traffic in...
Depending on the month, the roster of those of us living paycheck to paycheck is up a bit or down a bit. But through the past several years, as tracked by PYMNTS and LendingClub, there’s one constant: Most individuals and households in the U.S. struggle...
May 11, 2020
Though the issue has captured a lot of attention lately as the demand for online grocery order for pick-up or delivery has become a critical priority for many consumers, giving food stamp (SNAP program) recipients the ability to use their EBT cards online to pay for groceries is far from a new effort. In fact, […]
December 31, 2019
A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in...
May 04, 2018
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 related to data could hamper...
February 16, 2018
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 stamp initiative. Turns out the...
October 03, 2023
FinTech InComm Payments said its healthcare unit has launched a partnership with Instacart. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Oct. 3), allows health plans to offer their members grocery and over-the-counter items for delivery via Instacart. Starting Jan. 1, members of participating Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and other eligible programs can use InComm Healthcare’s Dual Network Benefit Card to buy groceries, […]
May 07, 2023
High inflation and reduced government aid have led to a spike in food bank demand. A report Sunday (May 7) by Bloomberg News illustrates this trend with the example of the...
March 26, 2023
This week marks the last week before food stamp benefits return to “normal.” At the end of March, increases to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) approved by Congress during...
April 03, 2022
Target plans to allow shoppers use food stamps to pay for online orders, Reuters wrote Friday (April 1). This would position the retail giant alongside its big competitors Walmart and...
