I stopped at the Aldi in Monroe last week; we were there anyway, and it’s the best price on bread, of which we use a LOT. The cashier asked, “Debit, or EBT?” First time I’ve ever heard that!
The people in front of me were a World War II veteran and his wife. Best price on bread attracts all kinds!
EBT started popping up on the debit/credit card readers in grocery stores back in the late nineties. I had no clue what it was, I knew Social Security had gone to a card and thought maybe it was that for a while.
It was a few years before I actually encountered somebody using one to put two and two together, I’ve lived out in far suburbia since the early nineties in a not so flashy neighborhood bordering horse country and large homes with acreage, so we didn’t see it much, but it’s getting less unusual even here.
You must be paying cash or still writing paper checks.