Countless New Yorkers rely on grocery delivery to put food on the table and access daily essentials. It’s the mom rushing home from work. The mobility-limited senior who can’t make it to the store. The family living in a food desert, using their SNAP benefits to get nutritious food delivered to their doorstep from a store that would otherwise be out of reach.
Behind every order is a grocery delivery worker making it possible. These workers deserve to keep the flexibility that most say brought them to this work in the first place.
That’s why Mayor Adams was right to veto the City Council’s recent proposals , Int. 1133-A and 1135-A. They would have stripped away the very flexibility grocery delivery workers rely on, and at the same time, they would have made groceries more expensive for