So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Ok, but how is forcing people to use their SNAP benefits on more expensive food just because it's unprocessed going to help any of this? It sounds like you just want to rant about poor people and how much you think they suck.

These trolls are ridiculously stupid, just ignore them. Energy vampires.

I guess a certain group of people won't be able to buy shopping carts full of meats and canned goods with EBT, cart it all back to their own stores and food trucks and resell it for cash?

You know it's happening and yet you want to continue the grift. Enough.

Isn’t that essentially what Trump is doing with his ballroom?

No.

Can you explain that? He’s taking taxpayer $$ to build a ballroom that he’s selling off to billionaires.

Seems exactly the same to me, and a much worse deal for taxpayers than a couple of Yahoos reselling Hamburger Helper.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Terrible take - this has always been an issue since white flight.

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Ok, but how is forcing people to use their SNAP benefits on more expensive food just because it's unprocessed going to help any of this? It sounds like you just want to rant about poor people and how much you think they suck.

These trolls are ridiculously stupid, just ignore them. Energy vampires.

I guess a certain group of people won't be able to buy shopping carts full of meats and canned goods with EBT, cart it all back to their own stores and food trucks and resell it for cash?

You know it's happening and yet you want to continue the grift. Enough.

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Statistically most people who receive these benefits work full time and/or are seniors. You realize you can work full time at McDonalds and still be in the property level?

This is the truth, alot of snap recipients are working full time. Alot of genuine story on reddit. With $8 minimum wage, they barely receive $1500 paychecks for a month, $900 goes for rent, then there is insurance, electric bill, gas, car expenses, phone bills etc and barely anything left for food.
Well off Maga loves to call them lazy and smoochy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

EBT is not simply for Dollar General or Trader Joe’s, although the latter has a decidedly greater selection of organic foods, as well as sustainably-sourced and fair-trade foods and products.

EBT is accepted at a wider variety of retail establishments every year.

True. If your Walmart, Safeway, Giant, or Target has its own Starbucks, then:

- you can even use EBT at those Starbucks locations.

I doubt it. Even within a grocery store, EBT does not cover prepared foods. It doesn’t cover everything. And Starbucks would be separate checkout.

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We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

EBT is not simply for Dollar General or Trader Joe’s, although the latter has a decidedly greater selection of organic foods, as well as sustainably-sourced and fair-trade foods and products.

EBT is accepted at a wider variety of retail establishments every year.

True. If your Walmart, Safeway, Giant, or Target has its own Starbucks, then:

- you can even use EBT at those Starbucks locations.

I doubt it. Even within a grocery store, EBT does not cover prepared foods. It doesn’t cover everything. And Starbucks would be separate checkout.

wow you sheltered and dumb AF

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

EBT is not simply for Dollar General or Trader Joe’s, although the latter has a decidedly greater selection of organic foods, as well as sustainably-sourced and fair-trade foods and products.

EBT is accepted at a wider variety of retail establishments every year.

True. If your Walmart, Safeway, Giant, or Target has its own Starbucks, then:

- you can even use EBT at those Starbucks locations.

I doubt it. Even within a grocery store, EBT does not cover prepared foods. It doesn’t cover everything. And Starbucks would be separate checkout.

wow you sheltered and dumb AF

Oh so if it’s a cold drink

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What happens is people are just going to steal food, end up in the ER for lack of nutrition (elderly and disabled), or turn to crime.

Most people on SNAP already have full time jobs, are disabled, or elderly.

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Many restaurants accept EBT under the Restaurant Meals Program, especially in states like California. Popular chains include El Pollo Loco, McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, and Denny's, but it's important to check before ordering if specific locations participate.

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Terrible take - this has always been an issue since white flight.

I have lived in big cities on both coasts most of my life and I do not remember cheap personal care items being under plexiglass and lock and key. You?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Terrible take - this has always been an issue since white flight.

I have lived in big cities on both coasts most of my life and I do not remember cheap personal care items being under plexiglass and lock and key. You?

The personal care thing is mainly from teenage Klepto types.

[Anonymous]

Will see an increase in thefts at grocery stores and mugging in the store’s parking lots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Usually stemming from poor life decisions to drop out of school, become a parent at too young an age and not being able to hold a steady job long enough to get promoted to management or receive benefits.

Hosts and foodrunners make $17+ an hour at the local restaurant where my 16 yo DD works. And the assistant managers are young 20 year olds with restaurant experience. There is also Costco. Please don’t act like $8/hr McDonalds jobs are the only option.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

That's what happens when stores are raided and looted, and judges don't uphold justice and let criminals go scot-free. Stores try to put stuff behind counters and under glass, but eventually they give up and close.

You wanted this nirvana, so we're living it now.

Terrible take - this has always been an issue since white flight.

I have lived in big cities on both coasts most of my life and I do not remember cheap personal care items being under plexiglass and lock and key. You?

The personal care thing is mainly from teenage Klepto types.

sure, whatever rocks your world. A few months ago I had to buy a few things in a CVS in SF, and the entire store was plexiglass.. You couldn't buy anything essential, not just personal care items without having to walk around with a clerk following you down the aisles and aisles of plexiglass with a key.