Amazon has been quietly working with food banks and using its network to deliver food to people in need.
SAN FRANCISCO – When the coronavirus crisis hit, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank supplied 275 food pantries across two counties. A week later, 100 of them had shut their doors. They turned to volunteers to drive food to people sheltering in place, especially seniors.
In San Francisco, the pilot program began April 1 when the food bank created an encrypted list of 9,885 seniors who used to pick up their monthly food boxes at various sites but now needed to stay at home."We specialize in ultra-fast delivery, and we're known for being able to scale," Ramchandani said dryly.
Amazon Flex is a program the company launched in 2015. On-demand drivers sign up to work two- or four-hour shifts doing same-day package delivery using their own cars. In the cities where the food bank programs are underway, they can now sign up to do food bank runs instead. Last week Amazon started off doing 70 deliveries a day."This week we're just shy of 200. They tell us they'll be able to do up to 2,000 a week. That's a big number," she said.
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