My wife works at a supermarket. She said that customers routinely help out other customers who come up short at checkout.
OTOH, the EBT people routinely piss and moan about their favorite breakfast cereal not qualifying for reimbursement, etc.
EBT should be limited to rice and beans. Maybe some of the cheaper veg too. Just the basics to provide nutrition. If you are receiving EBT you shouldn’t be worried about how fancy and flavorful your meals are. You should be dropping to your knees and thanking the rest of us who are paying for you to survive.
You have to incentivize people. If you can get a good steak on EBT why would they ever got off of it.
She said that customers routinely help out other customers who come up short at checkout.....I do, very often. Usually just to get the old lady in front of me out of the way so I can leave instead of standing there while she searches for a quarter, dime or whatever. “ Here! Take it out of this buck! I gotta pee.”
I remember as an 11 year old boy in a store in Maryland with one whole dollar to go spend on something. I found a little toy that had a block of wood, four wheels a battery holder and a motor with a rubber shaft piece that was supposed to ride the wheel and make it go. You put it together and you became the driver! It was 99 cents.
Even then, I understood government, I took it to the cashier and asked the lady if a dollar was enough considering taxes... She said no, it cost $1.02. So I said “thank you” and walked back to put it back on the shelf.
It was then a nice lady came to me, change purse in hand and gave me the three cents, and I thanked her profusely.
I’ll never forget that.
I used to do this several times a year. But for the past few years, I had stopped just because I don't know if someone is going to feel "dissed" if a stranger helps out.
One of the primary purposes in a supermarket is to keep the checkout line moving. The customers who most frequently come up short are the same ones who do not seem to care if they hold up the line...
I see it all the time as well. A few months ago my neighbour was $2 short at the checkout and the guy behind him paid for the entire $52 order.
I’d prefer to see supermarkets have EBT lines only or better yet open up EBT only stores.
There is something to be said about people who refuse to extend a helping hand to those less fortunate when they themselves have had so many helping hands extended to them.
You must mean the WIC crowd.. Around here anything that loosely meets the definition of “food” can be bought with an EBT card.