I don’t have a problem with that as shrimp is food, albeit and expensive one. If they had been selling velvet pictures of Elvis, then that’s a different question.
I was approached by a woman in WalMart one evening and she asked if she could pay for my groceries with her EBT card and I was to give her the cash. I turned her down, of course, but she continued to seek others for the same deal........
Now That I think about it, I should have done so, then walked out of the store without giving her the cash............
Deal with that every day - people offering me food stamps in exchange for cold hard cash. Pisses me off.
Shrimp IS food and at Aldes I could buy a 1 lb bag ror about $4.99 which also happens to be what hamburger costs where I live. AND, I could get at least 2 meals from it which made it extremely economical.
I never got any cash award along with foodstamps. EVER. Any cash award I may have received was in the form of child support when the kids were little. And, I never had to pay back any unused foodstamps, because there weren’t any. I ALWAYS had to add cash to the grocery purchase because there weren’t enough foodstamps to cover a month’s groceries. At one time I actually had to purchase my food stamps. It was pretty darmed hard too. When your childsupport is $270 per month, and your rent is $250, and $117 worth of foodstamps costs $47.00 plus you need diapers, pay the electric bill, laundry soap, laundry machines, and other misc. items one needs with children, well, the numbers don’t add up. So, you buy the smaller allotment of FS which at the time cost $17.00 for $65.00 worth of FS...
I don’t know where folks get off lying about how ‘good’ life is on fs. It’s not unless folks are doing other illegal activities to make extra cash. But when you fly right and legal, it’s damned difficult and not easy at all.
What some folks DO do is sell some fs for 50 cents on the dollar for some cash. A person has to buy diapers and soap somehow, as well as gasoline in order to participate in the ‘volunteer service’ one has to perform in order to receive them if one isn’t disabled, but is out of work.
As for that recipt..it means nothing. How do we know the person who purchased those goods wassn’t re-imbursed for them while the person who did the reimbursement was spared having to pay the food tax that does exist in some places?
No more righteous a move on your part than it would have been on theirs. FWIW I have never, ever been approached with such a proposal.