No Food Stamps For Soda

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Originally Posted by Riot

Food "stamps" haven't been real coupons ("stamps) for some years now. Food assistance is a debit card with an amount loaded on by the government, and having a PIN set by the person getting the assistance. In grocery stores where the card is swiped, it will reject paying for non-food items (like toilet paper, guns, cigarettes, etc)

About the only way left to get cash for your food assistance now is to buy groceries with it, then stand in the parking lot trying to sell those groceries to others at half-price for cash out of your trunk (what they do at a local WalMart near where I live, and yes, illegal)

Or they go into a mini mart and buy a couple gallons of milk w their EBT card, walk out to the car and then come back in "my girlfriend says we have milk at home can I return these?" Return them for cash and then suddenly remember he needed to get a couple of powerball tickets and some scratch offs. I've seen it done more than once.