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Amazon, Walmart Benefit As More Than 1 Million Food Stamp Shoppers Buy Online

PYMNTS

As online shopping becomes the norm, Amazon is courting food stamp shoppers, according to a report by Bloomberg. s ShopRite stores, participates in a pilot program that lets EBT card users buy groceries online for delivery or pickup, Bloomberg reported. The eCommerce giant, along with Walmart and Wakefern Food Corp. ’s

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SNAP Users Shut Out Of The Digital Grocery Aisles

PYMNTS

Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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Digital Driver’s Licenses Are Put To The (Pilot) Test

PYMNTS

The plastic cards have become a fixture in American wallets from Maine to Hawaii, required not just when behind the wheel, but also at cigar shops, liquor stores, bars and nightclubs. It is now moving into phase two: testing digital licenses in online and other digital environments. states are exploring electronic and digital versions.

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Grocery Roundup: Ahold Delhaize Acquisition, Another Toilet Paper Rush And A SNAP Explosion

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Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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CFPB issues Office of Servicemember Affairs 2019 annual report

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Complaints were received from servicemembers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the largest number of complaints coming from California, Texas, and Florida (states that the OSA pointed out have the largest veteran concentrations). Noteworthy items include: Top Complaints Received from Military Consumers During FY19.

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Who Should Lead The Digital ID Push?

PYMNTS

The app stores digital versions of documents like drivers’ licenses, health cards and other forms of identity. Use cases for the digital ID wallet could include accessing age-restricted places like bars, signing into services like online tax filing or verifying identities at polling stations.

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Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain

PYMNTS

Though marijuana has been decriminalized for medical or recreational purposes in 29 states (and the District of Columbia) and 64 percent of the polled voting population supports marijuana’s legalization, pot remains very much illegal on the federal level as a Schedule 1 narcotic.