DoorDash expands SNAP grocery payments to about 2,700 Kroger stores in the U.S.

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DoorDash expanded SNAP payment acceptance to approximately 2,700 Kroger-operated stores nationwide, including Ralphs and Harris Teeter, as of Friday.
DoorDash reports 4.5 million customers have already linked SNAP cards to the app, targeting households facing mobility, caregiving, and food-access challenges.
Ongoing political pressure includes 22 states restricting SNAP purchase categories and a House-approved farm bill that could reduce SNAP funding by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Kroger rollout broadens payment access

As reported by DoorDash, the delivery company started offering SNAP payments for grocery orders at about 2,700 Kroger-run stores on Friday, including Ralphs in Southern California and Harris Teeter in the mid-Atlantic.

Customers can use the benefit by adding their SNAP card in the app's payment section under Account, or by selecting an EBT card at checkout. DoorDash says about 4.5 million customers have already connected their SNAP card to the app.

Mike Goldblatt, DoorDash's vice president of enterprise partnerships, says the partnership is intended to help millions of consumers shop more conveniently for groceries their households rely on every day. DoorDash already accepts SNAP or EBT payments at other retailers including Duane Reade, Food Lion and selected 7-Eleven locations, while rivals Uber Eats and Instacart also offer similar features.

SNAP users remain a key grocery delivery segment

SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, serves 42 million low-income households in the U.S. and can be used for most staple groceries such as produce, meat and grains. DoorDash says the Kroger expansion addresses the needs of customers who are more likely to face mobility, caregiving or food-access barriers.

A 2025 survey of 1,500 DoorDash customers using SNAP found that around 33% are disabled or live with a chronic illness, while 69% are caregivers. The company says this group is also twice as likely as the general population to live in a food desert.

The expansion comes as SNAP remains under political pressure. Twenty-two states changed program rules in 2026 to restrict purchases of items such as soda, energy drinks and candy, while President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act raised work requirements for nondisabled adults aged 18 to 64 to 80 hours a month. A farm bill that has passed the House could cut SNAP funding by hundreds of billions of dollars, and the Senate is expected to vote on the measure and related program changes in the coming months.

In our earlier article on USDA ERS data about the farm share of the food dollar, we explained that U.S. farms received 11.8 cents of every dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2024, with most of the remainder going to processing, marketing, transportation and other supply-chain costs. We also noted how this long-running split influences farm income and consumer food-price dynamics, providing context for how food affordability and access pressures can build across the system.

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