I had a similar experience, except that when the checker ran the customer’s EBT card, it had 17 cents on it. This was after the store staff had bagged about $100 worth of groceries for her. EBT customer just looked blank, said “oh,” and walked out of the store. Checker told me that there’s a phone number EBT recipients can call to check the balance on their cards, but that this nonetheless happens 3 or 4 times a day.
What bugged me the most about the incident was that the customer didn’t even act embarrassed, let alone apologize to the store employees for creating all that extra work for them.
Pologize to White people who have a job? You have got to be kidding. I just gave them some more work to do, that’s all.
Hummph, expect me to pologize.
That’s because they think it just refills all the time. They believe it is owed them is why there is no embarrassment. Most likely she went back to the same store the next day with a similar result.
They will just keep doing it till it actually refills and she gets groceries. I remember back when my wife and I were starting out and going to the grocery store with $35 to spend because we had just paid rent and electricity bill and that was all we had to spend. And then watch someone get $200 of groceries and just whip out food stamps while we worked and had to scrimp.