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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Until some expert comes along and says they're wrong

https://tinyurl.com/yasq3983

The proposal is also likely to enrage food retailers particularly Walmart, Target and Aldi that stand to lose billions if food stamp benefits are cut, analysts say. On Monday, the Food Marketing Institute, a trade association for grocery stores, condemned the Harvest Box proposal as expensive, inefficient and unlikely to generate any long-term government savings.

Ironically, that sort of criticism has also dogged Blue Apron, which saw its customer base contract in 2017. A recent report by the market research firm Datassential found that four in 10 lapsed meal-kit subscribers dropped their service because they were too costly.

As much as a third of the price per box goes toward shipping and logistics, which remain daunting, industry analysts told The Washington Post last June. Food policy experts expressed skepticism that the government could do better.

In a statement, Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, described the proposal as a a Rube-Goldberg designed system of commodity distribution via food boxes.

"[It] will be administratively costly, inefficient, stigmatizing, and prone to failure, Weill added. "[And it] will return the country to Depression-era anti-hunger approaches.

in short: the trump admin is almost never honest, this exists (in the form of blue apron, which mick mulvaney dishonestly tried to compare their plan to) and the associated shipping costs there are massive.
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