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Moving to create a new base of customers and ingratiate itself with its future Bronx neighbors, FreshDirect is asking Congress to pass a bill allowing food-stamp recipients to purchase groceries online. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is unmoved, but a compromise with the Senate could allow the change. FreshDirect co-founder and CEO Jason Ackerman wrote a letter to the House Agricultural Committee last week arguing that the “ubiquity of the Internet in the 21st century” calls for modernizing food-stamp policies.
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FreshDirect is getting a tax break and billionaire competitors local businessmen say it's not fair. Everyone's favorite grocery delivery service has been planning a controversial move from its LIC headquarters to the South Bronx, an... Read Post

FreshDirect's move to the Bronx won't be easy. On Monday, a group of residents and community groups took the online grocer to court in an effort to block the company from moving to the area claiming that the city understated the imp... Read Post

First we moved grocery shopping online, and now it's made the leap to iPhones. Fresh Direct has launched an app (only available to current customers as of now), allowing folks to phone in their shopping lists, so to speak. The Wall ... Read Post