Farmers in rural America are expanding food-delivery services to meet rising demand from consumers seeking to isolate themselves
CHICAGO/OKLAHOMA CITY - Farmers in rural America are expanding food delivery services to meet rising demand from consumers seeking to isolate themselves during the coronavirus pandemic and frustrated by empty grocery-store shelves.
Farmers said they had supplies and were seeing an uptick in demand for home deliveries in areas where grocery delivery services like Instacart and Amazon.com’s AmazonFresh are not widely available. In Alex, Oklahoma, married farmers Carrie and Joe Chlebanowski began making “porch deliveries” on Sunday, after suspending sales at a weekly farmers market in Oklahoma City over health concerns. They delivered lettuce and other greens to about 16 customers and also opened a stand to make sales at their farm.
More farmers are focusing on direct-to-consumer sales amid declining demand from local restaurants. The nation’s biggest meat processors like Tyson Foods Inc have also scrambled to shift their supplies to grocery stores.
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