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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Depends on where you live. Rural America is hugely dependent on SNAP.

This story is about the cuts in the republican tax bill not cutting snap altogether. One store said 40% of sales were from SNAP



https://stateline.org/2025/06/02/gop-cuts-to-food-assistance-would-hit-rural-america-especially-hard/

SNAP accounts for approximately 12% of total grocery sales in the U.S., though this percentage can vary significantly by store type and location. For some stores, especially those in low-income areas, SNAP can represent a much larger share of revenue, sometimes exceeding 60%

This will certainly affect grocery store sales. Walmart is a big one. People will not “use their own money” when there isn’t any.

Yes, there is “their own money” it’s just spent on other things. If snap goes away people would shift how they spend (waste) their money

Things like electricity and housing? You are clueless about what it means to be poor in this country.

This. More than half of SNAP benefits use it for less than a year. 2/3 are off within 2 years. The people who are on for years? Mostly likely to be elderly or disabled. For most people it’s a bridge. SNAP benefits are paltry for most families.

Op-Ed from a mom today who’s been on it twice. The first time when her husband left her with her kids. The second time when she lost her job while her child had cancer.

People complain about her using a special matching program for farmers markets after stretching elsewhere to cover the essentials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-shutdown-food-stamps.html

I guess she should have sold her car when her husband left or when she lost her job or when her kid had cancer rather than sign up for SNAP. Maybe she can work for rations. Definitely needs to get rid of her phone and probably her TV.

The food stamp program has no nutritional standards, allowing participants to purchase any food or beverage product intended for consumption, except alcohol. As a result, data show that sizable portions of SNAP dollars purchase nonnutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health.”

Are you kidding me with this list? More than half of the items on that list are “healthy”. I’ll grant you soft drinks are number one but 2 and 3 are milk and ground beef. The horrors!

Poor people can’t win. Buy soft drinks you’re a welfare queen. Buy peaches at a farmers market with matching funds to help local farmers, you’re a little too high and mighty.

Give me a break.

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Here is a much more comprehensive table: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf

TLDR: People on SNAP have very similar food spending habits to people not on SNAP.

That is appalling!

If nothing else, hope the threat to cut off SNAP leads to major reforms, such as excluding “sweetened beverages” from being purchased with EBT.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Depends on where you live. Rural America is hugely dependent on SNAP.

This story is about the cuts in the republican tax bill not cutting snap altogether. One store said 40% of sales were from SNAP



https://stateline.org/2025/06/02/gop-cuts-to-food-assistance-would-hit-rural-america-especially-hard/

SNAP accounts for approximately 12% of total grocery sales in the U.S., though this percentage can vary significantly by store type and location. For some stores, especially those in low-income areas, SNAP can represent a much larger share of revenue, sometimes exceeding 60%

This will certainly affect grocery store sales. Walmart is a big one. People will not “use their own money” when there isn’t any.

Yes, there is “their own money” it’s just spent on other things. If snap goes away people would shift how they spend (waste) their money

Things like electricity and housing? You are clueless about what it means to be poor in this country.

This. More than half of SNAP benefits use it for less than a year. 2/3 are off within 2 years. The people who are on for years? Mostly likely to be elderly or disabled. For most people it’s a bridge. SNAP benefits are paltry for most families.

Op-Ed from a mom today who’s been on it twice. The first time when her husband left her with her kids. The second time when she lost her job while her child had cancer.

People complain about her using a special matching program for farmers markets after stretching elsewhere to cover the essentials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-shutdown-food-stamps.html

I guess she should have sold her car when her husband left or when she lost her job or when her kid had cancer rather than sign up for SNAP. Maybe she can work for rations. Definitely needs to get rid of her phone and probably her TV.

The food stamp program has no nutritional standards, allowing participants to purchase any food or beverage product intended for consumption, except alcohol. As a result, data show that sizable portions of SNAP dollars purchase nonnutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health.”

Are you kidding me with this list? More than half of the items on that list are “healthy”. I’ll grant you soft drinks are number one but 2 and 3 are milk and ground beef. The horrors!

Poor people can’t win. Buy soft drinks you’re a welfare queen. Buy peaches at a farmers market with matching funds to help local farmers, you’re a little too high and mighty.

Give me a break.

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Here is a much more comprehensive table: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf

TLDR: People on SNAP have very similar food spending habits to people not on SNAP.

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Anonymous wrote:This is from 8 years ago. Homelessness among kids hit an all time high back then. No doubt it is even higher now.

But sure their families should be buying chicken thighs, and dried beans and rice to keep their kids fed and not cup noodles or other cheap crap.

I got better things to do than argue with MAGA morons on their high horses all day. I have a big bag of easy to eat meals and snacks that I need to do drop off at the neighborhood food box because I know what poverty and hunger actually look like in my community.

Hilarious that you think anyone who is suggesting people not use food stamps to buy candy and instead use it to buy nutritious food are maga. I’m just a Democrat with common sense but go off I guess

Anonymous wrote:This is from 8 years ago. Homelessness among kids hit an all time high back then. No doubt it is even higher now.

But sure their families should be buying chicken thighs, and dried beans and rice to keep their kids fed and not cup noodles or other cheap crap.

I got better things to do than argue with MAGA morons on their high horses all day. I have a big bag of easy to eat meals and snacks that I need to do drop off at the neighborhood food box because I know what poverty and hunger actually look like in my community.

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

And how should a family living out of their car prepare those things? Or maybe in a motel room with just a microwave? Do you have any idea how many thousands of people are in exactly those circumstance or that car living is on the rise in America?

It's willful ignorance. They want to believe people on SNAP don't work, sit around in their free apartments, playing on their Obama phones, popping out kids, paying for manicures and tattoos, and eating junk food all day living it up on government assistance.

Idk how many times it has to be said that this welfare queen image you have is not real. It was made up to manipulate you. The Nixon and Reagan administration's are on record admitting they made it up.

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

And how should a family living out of their car prepare those things? Or maybe in a motel room with just a microwave? Do you have any idea how many thousands of people are in exactly those circumstance or that car living is on the rise in America?

That’s a small percentage of the people on snap. Even so, you can microwave a potato, can of beans, etc. You can even make microwaved screamed eggs

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

And how should a family living out of their car prepare those things? Or maybe in a motel room with just a microwave? Do you have any idea how many thousands of people are in exactly those circumstance or that car living is on the rise in America?

That’s a small percentage of the people on snap. Even so, you can microwave a potato, can of beans, etc. You can even make microwaved screamed eggs

Anonymous wrote:This is from 8 years ago. Homelessness among kids hit an all time high back then. No doubt it is even higher now.

But sure their families should be buying chicken thighs, and dried beans and rice to keep their kids fed and not cup noodles or other cheap crap.

I got better things to do than argue with MAGA morons on their high horses all day. I have a big bag of easy to eat meals and snacks that I need to do drop off at the neighborhood food box because I know what poverty and hunger actually look like in my community.

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

And how should a family living out of their car prepare those things? Or maybe in a motel room with just a microwave? Do you have any idea how many thousands of people are in exactly those circumstance or that car living is on the rise in America?

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

And how should a family living out of their car prepare those things? Or maybe in a motel room with just a microwave? Do you have any idea how many thousands of people are in exactly those circumstance or that car living is on the rise in America?

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Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases. I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies.

You should care. 24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income. It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article. Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve?

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving?

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?

Of course, but less food. You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap?

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap.

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.

Yep, this. We’ve gone over and over this. A 10 pound bag of potatoes is $5 at Aldi. Loaded Baked potatoes make a great meal, and you can make a ton of other sides. Or potato soup. These are all things I eat btw. Dry beans and rice are cheap. You can make all kind of meals with that and various fixing. A family pack of chicken thighs is $6 at Aldi. A pork roast is around 12 and makes a ton of meat.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this issue will be resolved before Nov. 1?

no

Woman has a violent message for the “white man”: We will hunt you down and eat you if you take our SNAP benefits

These are AI generated videos

https://www.theroot.com/racist-ai-videos-of-black-women-complaining-about-their-2000070131