So, I guess I gotta learn not to trust my lyin’ eyes week after week? Like the woman I got stuck behind in line who used $325 on her EBT to buy a cart full of spare ribs, steaks and chops? Or the woman who bought $30 worth of flavored bottled water, gum, candy and chips? At our local discount grocery store, because of people’s EBT habits, clerks are actually trained NOT to judge or react to the things people buy with EBT. It’s tough to work a low-wage job at a grocery store and see person after person using EBT to buy things you can’t afford.
I can’t remember when I last bought gum and candy.
A bag of potato chips is outrageous these days. Walmart.com shows a “family size”, snort, bag weighing 10 oz. costs over $3. A raw potato weighs about 6-7 oz. and costs mere pennies. Frying one and a half potatoes equals the weight of a Lays bag but costs about 50 cents. Look at the money savings across the nation if they’d just ban packaged chips from EBTs.