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Forage CEO Ofek Lavian Talks SNAP EBT Partnership With Uber Eats, Fighting Food Insecurity In Interview
Steven Aquino
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Apr 19, 2024,03:28pm EDT
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Forage’s payments API will deliver SNAP EBT support to the Uber Eats app.
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As I’ve written numerous times, most recently in a story featuring DutchX co-founder Marcus Hoed posted earlier this week, the fact modern technology has precipitated the rise of on-demand services such as medication delivery with Amazon Pharmacy or food delivery with DoorDash transcends sheer convenience. Everyone, disabled people included, likes things to be convenient. But while many shortsightedly lament the advent of such services as not merely convenient but catering to humankind’s laziest impulses, the reality is an Amazon Prime or DoorDash can be, and very much is, a lifeline to legions of people in the disability community. Indeed, as DutchX’s Hoed told me about his company’s new at-home returns feature, not everyone has the capability to lug an unwanted good back to the post office or other designated drop-off location to be rid of it. That [...]
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