Loren EatonMany major grocery stores and supermarket chains allow customers to use EBT/SNAP cards for online grocery orders and pickup. However, it’s important to note that not all grocery stores and supermarkets that accept EBT in their stores allow you to pay for curbside pickup with an EBT card.
Below, we’ve compiled the list of stores that accept EBT for online grocery pickup, as well as any specific procedures that may be required. We’ve also listed which stores don’t take EBT for curbside service.
Stores That Accept EBT for Online Grocery Pickup
To compile the list of stores that take EBT for grocery pickup, we reached out to all of the stores that we had previously confirmed as accepting EBT for regular grocery purchases. Unless otherwise noted, the stores listed below accept EBT cards for online pickup orders — some may require you to pay when you place the order, while others allow you to pay at the time of pickup.
Note that our list focuses solely on curbside pickup; you can check out our related research for a list of stores that accept EBT for grocery delivery.
The grocery stores that accept EBT for pickup include:
- Acme Fresh Market
- Albertsons
- ALDI (Pickup available at select locations)
- BJ’s Wholesale Club
- Brookshire’s Food & Pharmacy (Pickup available at select locations)
- Dillons Food Stores (Pickup available at select locations)
- Fareway Stores (Pickup available, but you must pay in-store at the time of pickup when using EBT)
- Food 4 Less
- Food City
- Fred Meyer
- Fry’s Food Stores
- Giant Eagle (Pickup available, but you must pay in-store at the time of pickup when using EBT)
- Gordon Food Service
- Harris Teeter
- King Soopers (Pickup available at select locations)
- Kmart
- Kroger
- Lowes Foods (Pickup available, but you must pay in-store at the time of pickup when using EBT)
- Lucky’s Market
- Meijer (Pickup available, but you must pay in-store at the time of pickup when using EBT)
- Owen’s Market (Pickup available, but some store locations are not authorized to accept EBT)
- Pay Less Super Markets
- Pick ‘n Save
- QFC
- Raley’s
- Ralphs
- Safeway (Pickup available at select locations)
- ShopRite (Pickup available at select locations; must pay in-store at the time of pickup when using EBT)
- Smith’s Food and Drug
- Walmart
Stores That Don’t Accept EBT for Grocery Pickup
In the course of our research, we found that the following grocery stores allow online grocery pickup, but they do not accept EBT for these purchases:
- 99 Ranch Market (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Festival Foods
- Food Lion
- The Fresh Market
- Giant Food
- Harps Foods
- H-E-B
- Hy-Vee
- Jewel-Osco
- Piggly Wiggly (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Price Chopper
- Publix
- Randalls (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Sam’s Club (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Schnucks (Pickup available at select locations, but payments are processed through Instacart, which doesn’t accept EBT)
- Shaw’s
- Sprouts Farmers Markets
- Stop & Shop
- Tom Thumb (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Tops Friendly Market
- Vons (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Wawa
- Wegmans
- Weis Markets (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
- Whole Foods Market (Pickup available at select locations, but EBT is in-store only)
Additionally, the following stores do not have curbside pickup programs at the time of this writing:
- BI-LO
- Big Y
- Bravo Supermarkets
- Cash Saver
- Costco
- Country Fair (Note: Country Fair does not have a formal curbside-pickup program, but employees can bring out groceries to vehicles. EBT payments are in-store only.)
- El Super
- Food Giant
- Foodland
- Fresh Thyme
- Grocery Outlet
- Hannaford
- Harveys Supermarkets
- Ingles Markets (Note: Ingles Markets do not have a formal curbside-pickup program, but employees can bring out groceries to vehicles. EBT payments are in-store only.)
- Lidl
- Market Basket
- Save A Lot
- Smart & Final
- Stater Bros. Markets
- Trader Joe’s
- WinCo Foods
- Winn-Dixie
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