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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Laura Choate was just 11 years old when she was kicked out of her family home for coming out. At times in her youth, she had to eat out of garbage cans and beg for food. So it isn’t hard for her now, as the food pantry director at the…
Most food pantries are familiar with the benefits of client choice: By offering patrons the option of what foods they would like, rather than handing over a prepackaged box, pantries reduce waste, improve service quality and — most importantly — preserve dignity by letting clients decide what they want to…
When Open Cupboard in Minnesota opened the doors of its new grocery-store style food pantry last year, the team planned to serve no more than 100 shoppers a day. Instead, they were quickly “drinking from the fire hose trying to keep up,” Executive Director Jessica Francis recalled. They opened a…