US online grocery delivery boom helps open up access to fresh food

More than nine in ten Americans can get food delivered at a click, new research finds, helping those who struggle to reach bricks and mortar stores. — Instacart

WASHINGTON: It was the Covid-19 pandemic that finally drove Dustin Karzen, hunkered down at home in Escondido, California, to a first: going online to buy groceries.

Karzen, who was in seminary school and getting food stamps to help provide for his family, took advantage of a federal pilot programme allowing him to use the benefits to order food from local grocery stores to be dropped off by Instacart.