Troops, military families and veterans in the U.S. may be able to have their commissary groceries delivered right to their front door this summer, according to the Defense Commissary Agency.
The home deliveries, set to begin in late summer, are planned as an expansion of the agency's COVID-19 pandemic-era accessibility program and would be provided within a 20-mile radius of commissaries at bases in the continental U.S., Tressa Smith, a DeCA spokesperson, told Military.com in an email.
During the pandemic, the agency created the “Click2Go” program so patrons could order food from home and pick it up, limiting contact with others. This new delivery feature will similarly be available through DeCA's website and its “Commissary Click2Go” application.
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“The plan is to eventually deliver groceries from all commissaries in the continental U.S. to customers on and off base, in barracks or housing, and offices,” Smith said of the program. Because of regulation differences overseas, the program will not be available outside of the continental U.S.
No contract has been awarded yet regarding who will provide the delivery services, Smith told Military.com. “The delivery solicitation is in the contract sensitive stages with a goal of having the solicitation on sam.gov by late April,” she added, referring to a federal website for contractors.
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