Source: Alan Bjerga, BLOOMBERG, 2/22/18


The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries, Secretary Sonny Perdue said. Grocers are already adding services such as food delivery that the so-called Harvest Box would require, Perdue told reporters Thursday in Washington after speaking at the department’s annual conference on the outlook for U.S. agriculture.

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