Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
It’s a long way from handing out macaroni and canned soup from a church basement.
Source/Full Story: Yahoo! News
Related Items
- November 19, 2009 — Experts say radical measures won’t stop swine flu
Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were is… - October 27, 2009 — US: Gov’t may say recession over but not job losses
…The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the e… - October 15, 2009 — Social Security to make it official: No cost of living increase
The Social Security Administration makes it official Thursday: There will be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients next year, the … - June 18, 2009 — Libya records 13 cases of bubonic plague
Thirteen cases of bubonic plague have been recorded in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, Health Minister Mohamad Hijazi told AFP on Wednesda… - June 5, 2009 — Jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in May; layoffs slow
With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years. But the pace of layoffs eas…
