I do my grocery shopping at WalMart. In the last 4 months, every time I checked out, the person in front of me was using an EBT card.
The latest gov’t figure I have seen said 44 million Americans are on foodstamps (ebt).
What does EBT stand for? Do you know?
I sometimes see a person in front of me using those ebt cards. If they are edlerly, clearly disabled, and use a lot of coupons, buy a lot of rice, beans, and store brands, then it doesn’t bother me.
However I was once behind a young couple very well dressed, tho in casual clothes. They were Black and bought over $200 of nothing but meat. I noticed as I followed them out that the drove away in a late model Alpha Romeo. I took down their tag number.
A lady in our office who had once worked at welfare, said they would investigate if I turned them in but what they would find is the couple are not married, the sports car is registered to someone else etc. Just as well not bother.
Shocker for me: The Columbus Dispatch ran an editorial last week. The thing that caught my eye was that the editorial said that 50% of the people in the metro area receive food assistance. By and large, Columbus is more insulated (certainly effected though) than a lot of cities from the downturn. Can't imagine what it's like in some other cities.
I also do grocery shopping at Wally World and often, as far as I can see ahead of me in line, I am the only one paying with my own money.
I found a EBT card the other day at Wal_Mart. I turned it in to Customer Service .
My neighbors run a Papa Murphy’s take-and-bake pizza chain. They are doing well through the recession because they take food stamps.
I do, too. Most of it, anyway.
It is just a lot less expensive, typically, on the very same items, than competing chain supermarkets are.
And its store-brand items (which often seem identical to Kroger's store-brand items; many may be manufactured by the same company) are usually less expensive than similar store-brand items elsewhere.
“I do my grocery shopping at WalMart. In the last 4 months, every time I checked out, the person in front of me was using an EBT card.”
Strange when we shop at walmart, we only worry about how we pay for our purchase.