Baltimore's Virtual Supermarket program will be offered at Perkins Homes and Wayland Village Senior Apartments, under an expansion Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to announce Tuesday.
The city's program, which is the first of its kind in the nation, allows shoppers to order their groceries online and receive free deliveries at community sites in Baltimore's food deserts. The program is designed to expand the availability of healthy food in the city's low-income neighborhoods that don't have any large grocery stores nearby.
"This expansion is about making life better for too many Baltimore City families who lack easy access to groceries, more than 30,000 of which are our children," Rawlings-Blake said in a statement. "That is absolutely unacceptable to me.