Wheel a cart around any grocery store in a large metropolitan area these days, and you’ll run into workers who are shopping on behalf of people who’ve placed orders from home. These digital sales make up just 11.2% of the U.S. grocery market, but rapid adoption is expected to nearly…
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A survey of 50 food banks of all sizes found that larger food banks are more likely to rely on technology and operations partners for help in making home deliveries, bringing more efficiency to their programs. Home deliveries, rarely offered by food banks before the pandemic, have become much more…
Home deliveries are among the most labor-intensive, challenging services that a food bank could provide. During the pandemic, many food banks stepped up to the challenge as a way to expand access to food. Now they are working to keep home deliveries going. Aside from the logistics of managing drivers,…
Link2Feed, a leading provider of software to food banks and food pantries, is poised to help hunger relief orgs deliver on home deliveries through a partnership with DoorDash. Link2Feed customers — there are about 12,000 of them — will be able to access the same software DoorDash uses to manage…
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino is like many other food banks in starting a home delivery program during Covid-19 and making it permanent. Now, the food bank’s home delivery service looks something like Uber Eats, encompassing more than 1,000 volunteers over a vast portion of California. From March to December…
As food banks seek to bring food straight to patrons’ homes, they are discovering that one of the most difficult aspects of home delivery is planning out the routes that drivers should take. Turns out there’s an app for that. In California, both the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County and…