Half-price shopping is the favorite way to turn food stamp cards into cash in this area. We have a niece on my wife’s side who sold groceries bought with her “EBT” card for half price to raise the money to take her daughter to a Kenny Chesney concert! I would want to be paid a healthy amount to go and endure a Kenny Chesney concert. There are huge numbers of people selling half priced groceries around here, I have been told that at least in one town they are cold calling, knocking on doors to offer to go grocery shopping with anyone who will pay fifty dollars for a hundred dollars worth of food that the taxpayers are paying for, supposedly to feed hungry children but in reality to pay for concerts, tattoos, whatever, anything but food.
Don’t ask me what they eat after giving away their free groceries, I don’t know.
They hit up the local churches and food pantries and take the food that struggling families really need. All while giving their sob story about how their food stamps just don’t go far enough. Odd how none of them look emaciated...
(Please accept my apologies for any auto-correct errors. Luckily, I DID catch it before it substituted “panties” for “pantries”.)