A Guide to the SNAP Online
Purchasing Pilot 🛒
Use this guide to check your eligibility status for SNAP Online Delivery and transportation resources in Detroit.
For questions or suggestions please contact erykahb@umich.edu.
This page was last updated on 3/14/2025
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✅ Check Your SNAP Benefits Status
Check your food assistance eligibility, status, and manage your account.
Click here to learn more about Michigan's SNAP Online Purchasing guidelines and a full list of participating grocery store and retail outlets.
Learn about how to protect yourself from EBT scams and fraud. Stay up to date with scam alerts here.
Stores in Detroit that Accept SNAP Payments for Online Delivery Orders:
Garden Fresh Marketplace (6680 Michigan Avenue)
Aldi (15415 Gratiot Avenue and 14708 Mack Avenue)
Meijer (21431 Grand River, 1301 W 8 Mile Road, and 1475 East Jefferson Avenue)
Whole Foods (115 Mack Avenue)
Click here to see a Public Google Map of participating SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot locations in the City of Detroit.
🚗Free or Reduced Cost Transit Programs in Detroit🚌
Seniors and Disabled Residents
Detroit Paratransit provides transit for disabled residents in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. Learn more here.
DDOT Reduced Fare Program: Seniors, riders with disabilities, and Medicare recipients may qualify for a reduced rate of $0.50 per trip. Learn more here.
New and Expectant Mothers
Rides to Care offers free transportation to doctor visits for all new and expectant Detroit mothers. Learn more here.
Vehicle Gifting Programs
"Wheels for Work" is a nonprofit organization that gifts away cars to people in need. Learn more here.
🗺️A Map of 64 Full-Line Grocery Stores in the City of Detroit (2024 Master List)
This map, which was created by the Detroit Food Policy Council, shows the locations of full-line grocery stores in the City of Detroit as of 2024.
The shaded blue areas refer to census tracts that the United States Department of Agriculture defines as low-access, or areas where "a significant number (at least 500 people) or share (at least 33 percent) of the population is greater than one-half mile from the nearest supermarket, supercenter, or large grocery store for an urban area."
The Detroit Food Policy Council regularly publishes data on locations of full-line grocery stores in Detroit. See their Knowledge Center site for more information.
Click here to download the master list of the full-line grocery stores.
📒Reading Guide to the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot and Food Access
+ The Impact of the SNAP OPP
SNAP Spending Rose and Fell With Pandemic-Era Changes to Benefit Amounts by Jordan Jones (2024)
SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot Reduced Food Insufficiency Among Low-Income Households by Jordan Jones (2024)
Promoting Equitable Expansion of the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot by Healthy Eating Research (2021)
Does buying groceries online put SNAP participants at risk?: How to Protect Health, Privacy, and Equity by Center for Digital Democracy (2020)
+ Food Access in Detroit
A “better food environment” for Black Detroiters opens in February by Michelle Martin (2024)
The number of full-service grocery stores has declined in Detroit by Laura Herberg (2022)
Grocery store access worsens for Detroiters by Jena Brooker (2022)
Detroit Food Metrics Report 2020 by Detroit Food Policy Council (2021)
Michigan Food Insecurity, Food Access, and Food Worries During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Alyssa Beavers and Michelle Litton, National Food Access and COVID Research Team (2020)
+ Online Grocery Shopping in the U.S.
Online Grocery Shopping Participation Varied by Sociodemographic Group in 2022 and 2023 by Restrepo, Rivera-Cintron, and Zeballos (2024)
New Survey Data Show Online Grocery Shopping Prevalence and Frequency in the United States by Restrepo and Zeballos (2024)
FDA Issues Request for Information on Food Labeling in Online Grocery Shopping by the Food and Drug Administration (2023)
The pandemic changed how we shop for groceries, Adobe report shows by Verdon, Forbes (2022)
Grocery delivery, once a luxury, is becoming a mainstay of American life by Miranda, NBC News (2021)
🖊️2025 Farm Bill Renewal
Learn about the 2014 Farm Bill, which initiated SNAP online purchasing.
The 2018 Farm Bill expired in 2023 is now up for renewal. Learn more about updates to the Farm Bill and how to get involved.
Photo by Jordan Christian on Unsplash
Acknowledgements
This resource guide was created thanks to the support of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Population Science Center Traineeship (a fellowship supported by the National Institutes of Child and Human Development). We are thankful for feedback from scholars, activists, and policy advocates of the Detroit Food Policy Council during the September 2024 Detroit Food Summit.
For questions, contact me at erykahb@umich.edu