Posted on 09/17/2016 12:50:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Amazon Prime doesn’t charge for delivery.
Hooray another way to cheat the government.
Another way to cheat your EBT card and let your kids go hungry. Relax another plea to feed the hungry (obese)kids, is around the corner.
Just makes me sick. They’ve got nothing to do but go to the store. I’m sure they’ll have the delivery charge waved too. When I was going through chemo I was sick as a dog so had groceries delivered from Vons. Cost me $9.95 every time.
One way to avoid living in a “food desert” is to refrain from rioting and burning down the store.
Many schools are having to feed children 24/7/365 now.
I can just see the corruption of the food stamp program with this.
Story says over $49 delivery is free. But who cares? I want me some kale chips and organic pomegranate juice right now, let the taxpayer pay to deliver it.
According to the story, one of the online stores petitioning to join the SNAP
program is called Soylent. LOL.
Fattest nation on earth and in the entire history of mankind, and we have “food deserts”? Only in the fevered minds of the permanent ruling class in Wash DC. What better way to keep the slaves on the plantation than free food ordered from the comfort of your Section 8 housing?
We taxpayers now have to pay for shipping and handling so the gimmedats won’t have to leave home.
Maybe we should send those limousine vans around to take them shopping.
“1. Small neighborhood grocery stores put out of business.
2. Funds flow to our friends at Amazon.
3. Fraud = cash flow for our friends and supporters.”
All good!
Love, Hillary
Omaha steaks
Lobstergram
Harry & David
Williams-Sonoma
Starbucks
....love the fudge from The Vermont Country Store
Don’t like Omaha steaks, no marbeling. Harry & David are great.
Heh. I wouldn’t know ...I can barely afford hot dogs and hamburg. ;)
I envision the EBT users to be sending for those *meals in a box* like blue apron, plated, etc. Wait, they don’t cook ,,,so what was I thinking? Forget it. ;(
If you are home bound or not allowed to drive, I can see Amazon Prime/Amazon Pantry being a very good option.
I’ve sent 20-30 packs of single serve pasta bowls, soup cans, juices to a homebound relative. She couldn’t drive due to poor vision and she didn’t want to use Uber or rely on neighbors. It was a good way to order and send her food she could fix as she needed it.
Combine this with Amazon’s baby selection, and a lot of screaming little kids in the grocery store go away if you’re ordering formula and diapers online so no one has to leave the house.
That said, I can see a lot of potential for abuse, like ordering food online that is the premium stuff or ordering food via the SNAP card and sending it back before using the refund to buy games or toys on Amazon.
The other problem with the “food desert” is that some of these maps don’t include ethnic grocery stores and hole in the wall retailers that do offer food but it isn’t a chain grocery store so it doesn’t count to those doing the map.
I remember a Glen Beck episode where a food desert in Austin had a Whole Foods grocery store in the middle and several ethnic groceries - way better coverage than my suburb.
I wonder to what degree the growing reliance on SNAP instead of cutting back on grocery spending is why food prices are still going up faster than inflation.
Set it up in a cooler outside for a dollar a can at a permanent garage sale as yet another profit center.
I don’t have the issue with door delivery. There are many home bound due to health and age who would benefit from it, as well as those who can’t afford a car and don’t have public transit (whether inner cities, suburbs or rural areas).
My concern is that they could end up ordering organic luxury foods, energy drinks, wasting money that should go to essentials.
I see no issue with food parcels dropped off on a per person basis, though, as long as there are dietary adjustments based on the person. For example, most blacks can’t drink milk so give them soymilk instead.
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