🤔Using Food Stamps🥙🍔💲 For Online💻 Grocery Shopping🥓🥞💲 Is Getting Easier😁😊🥪🍩🍓

AMY SCOTT June 26, 20194:37 PM ET

Walmart and Amazon began offering online purchases with food stamps in April as part of the USDA's pilot program. Now, both companies are expanding services for low-income shoppers. David J. Phillip/AP

Walmart is expanding a program that allows for online orders of groceries to be picked up and paid for with food stamps at more than 2,500 locations.

It's the latest move by a major retailer to give low-income shoppers more options for using food stamps in the modern era of online shopping. Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers,began piloting the use of food stamps for online grocery pickup service in 2017 in a few locations.

Separately, Walmart, Amazon and ShopRite are offering shoppers in the New York area the option of making online purchases with food stamps and having them delivered.

In this case, shoppers who live in areas that qualify don't have to physically drive to the store to pick up the items they purchased. However, they do have to pay the delivery fees out of their own pocket. The U.S. Department of Agriculture launched this program in April as a two-year pilot project for those on food stamps, the program also known as SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Everyone on food stamps has a bank card called an EBT card, backed by the government. The program allows for customers to pay with their card online, just like a debit or credit card.

At Walmart, online shopping using food stamps is available throughout New York state. For Amazon and ShopRite, the service is only available to those living in New York City. In coming months, the program is expected to expand into more states, including Alabama, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington.