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06-28-2016, 05:22 PM
You can't use food stamps online. This organic grocery startup wants to change that.
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Online organic grocery startup Thrive Market has faced plenty of hurdles familiar to any business trying to break into the difficult online shopping space: low profit margins, tricky distribution, cautious investors.
But its latest challenge is one that may be foreign to pricier industry peers: How to persuade the*bureaucracy-bound providers of government food stamps to undertake the expensive and logistically difficult process of allowing these credits to be used online.
SEE ALSO: 14 food festivals that show how serious America is about food (http://mashable.com/2016/05/20/summer-food-festivals-2016/)
The company, best described as an Internet-only cross between Whole Foods, Toms Shoes and Costco, recently launched a petition to that effect aimed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with backing from brands like Clif Bar, affordable food **nprofits and celebrities like*Matthew McConaughey and Russell Simmons. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/thrive-market-food-stamps-online/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Online organic grocery startup Thrive Market has faced plenty of hurdles familiar to any business trying to break into the difficult online shopping space: low profit margins, tricky distribution, cautious investors.
But its latest challenge is one that may be foreign to pricier industry peers: How to persuade the*bureaucracy-bound providers of government food stamps to undertake the expensive and logistically difficult process of allowing these credits to be used online.
SEE ALSO: 14 food festivals that show how serious America is about food (http://mashable.com/2016/05/20/summer-food-festivals-2016/)
The company, best described as an Internet-only cross between Whole Foods, Toms Shoes and Costco, recently launched a petition to that effect aimed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with backing from brands like Clif Bar, affordable food **nprofits and celebrities like*Matthew McConaughey and Russell Simmons. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/thrive-market-food-stamps-online/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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