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.
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