I was at WalMart yesterday morning. Buying my stuff for cash. Two young females with iPhones, nice purses, clothes and very well coiffed were buying a bunch of junk food and sweets crap for kids plus some goodies for themselves. They pulled out the Georgia Peach EBT card and paid for the junk and then pulled out cash to buy their cigarettes. Neither of them had ever been on the paycheck side of a job but drove TWO cars there. I guess they had their little rug rats in the free Pre-K school daycare in my state. Bitches.
I couldn't work in retail grocery. Scenes like you're describing would get my BP too high.
In the 90’s in California, I was in a grocery check-out line behind two Middle eastern women. Their gold jewelry could have fed a hundred people for a year, but they pulled out the food stamps to pay for the groceries. I asked about that situation and was told they were from ‘oppressed countries’ so qualified for food stamps. This graft has been going on for decades. Seems both Partys have no problem with keeping the gravy train moving.