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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in my neighborhood as a kid would sell food stamps (again before the EBT cards) and then buy liquor with the money.[/quote]

I'm a pp (the checker who forgot to put the "food stamp eligible" on the soda.)
When I was working at the grocery store (mid-late 90s) the food stamps would come in a booklet in various denominations- $1, $5, $10, etc.   Anything $5 and above, we had to actually watch them tear it out of the booklet.   If they were owed change, it was given back in $1 food stamps (and then any coins were just regular coins.)
So if someone bought $6.35 in food and paid with a $10 food stamp, I'd have to watch them rip the food stamp out of their booklet, and then I'd give them three $1 food stamps, plus 65 cents in change.
They could then freely use those $1 food stamps without the cashiers having to verify anything.

We were told that there were "stings" where government employees would go undercover to make sure no grocery stores weren't following the rules. The grocery store could lose their privilege of participating in the program if there were violations.  I don't know how common these "stings" were, or if they just said that to scare us.[/quote]

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