/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8760848
Grocery store employee here, lemme tell you about food stamp customers.
Over here it's done through either EBT(monthly stipends deposited into a debit card) or WiC(checks for specific grocery items, usu. baby needs), if you don't know how they work just look it up.
These people buy way more than just $29 of groceries every week, almost all WiC purchases hover above $50-$60USD just counting the baby food. 8/10 food stamp customers also come into the store already planning to buy more than what their food stamps allow them. They always keep them as separate transactions rather than using a split payment, and these extra items are usually snack stuff like coke and chips. This is especially true for EBT users, and what's more is that after their groceries are done they usually ask to get the remaining EBT money as cash back.
It's not like these food stamp users are living solely on that shit and if they really do worry about not having enough to eat, I never hear any of it from them. From what I can see in my store, they buy just about as much food and drink as any other weekly customer, they just don't buy as much processed GMO crap.
And just as an aside, the ones around here don't throw a fit out of using that shit, for them and for us it's just a natural part of the transaction. Unless it's a WiC user that grabbed the wrong shit, those checks are very specific about what brand and what size they can use it on so it gets really shitty when it comes to milk and juice.