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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help. This feels like a troll post, though.[/quote] I don’t think it’s a troll post. I once had a cashier ask me, not the person in front of me, not the person behind me, but me if I was “paying with EBT”, at the time I had no idea what that was so asked him and he said “food stamps are you paying with govt food stamps”. I snorted and laughed out loud. And in my best got any grey poupon voice “No, I do not have an EBT card, but please do tell me where and how I can get one of those, food is expensive. Unbelievable you mean that the govt will give me a card with money on it and I can use it to buy food. I’d love one of those. Sign me up .” Lol… I thought it was very amusing… and cute because [b]I think the cashier was trying to put me in my place.[/b][/quote] Maybe not--they may have just been trying to figure out how to ring up your purchase. Many years ago (when there were still the paper food stamps that came in a booklet) I was a grocery store cashier. The store was in a wealthy area and I'd only get a customer using food stamps a few times a month, at most. A customer came through my line (I was working the express line that day) with a bottle of soda (and a few other things.) [b]For some reason, the 2 liter bottle of soda was not scanning. [/b] No big deal, that happens some times. I tried entering the UPC code, directly--system saying "not found." It's the "express line"--other customers in line are starting to get impatient. I ask the customer if she noticed what price it said on the shelf, and she told me 99 cents. Fine, so I manually enter the 99 cents and hit the "taxable grocery" (as opposed to produce or deli, etc.) And then after I hit total she handed me the food stamps. This was a problem, because (at least at the time) most "taxable grocery" items were NOT food stamp eligible. Soda definitely was eligible--so instead of just hitting "taxable grocery" there was an additional thing I should have entered for "food stamp eligible." But--I was in a hurry and feeling under pressure because the other customers were getting loudly impatient...and being that we rarely got food stamp customers it just didn't enter my mind at the time that she might be paying for the things with food stamps. It was definitely my fault...but also not intentional in any way. Anyway, maybe there was something specific about the item you were buying and the cashier knew he'd have to enter it a certain way if you were using food stamps. [/quote] Maybe people can't buy soda with food stamps? They are supposed to provide healthy nutrition, not sugary drinks, correct?[/quote] PP you quoted here. No, you can buy soda with food stamps--at least you definitely could at that time, and in that state. You can buy candy. You can buy lobster and caviar. You could also buy seeds/plants to grow food, but not flowers--except Sunflowers because you can eat sunflower seeds. I remember learning that you could buy things like bows and arrows with food stamps so you could hunt for food. Our store didn't sell bows and arrows so that never came up for me. At the time (and in that state, California) you couldn't buy alcohol, hot prepared food (like fried chicken from the service deli)...and I think that was it. Just about everything edible was eligible. I believe they have changed the "hot prepared food" rule though, and even some restaurants can take EBT (food stamps.) [/quote]
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