This is interesting to me because I thought I had read articles that said WM received 18% of all EBT dollars.
You would expect it to be proportional or a bit higher than their normal market share stats in an area.
If it’s fair for the companies, it’s fair for the EBT card holders. Publish a list of people who receive food stamps, so we can find out who’s using and abusing our tax money.
interesting argument, but the only people “benefitting” from Food Stamps are the ones that receive them.
The Evil Businesses are just providing a service, as they do with all their Customers.
What’s the point, shame the Business into refusing to take Food Stamps? Yeah, that will go over like a Fart in a Spacesuit to the poor Victims trying to “buy” (cough, cough) Food for their Families.
So, now we have to lay the ground work to punish companies for “benefitting” from food stamps.
This is going to lead to demands that food stamp users get discounts or something
I think we should post a big pink sign on the door of every welfare recipient’s house showing the total value of public pork they take each year.
Bring back the shame.
JP Morgan Chase is the largest beneficiary. They run the entire racket and rack up a percentage for every transaction and many programs give straight cash cards now rather than food-only cards. It’s quite a racket if you have no self respect.
They should have to post weekly totals up for us all to see; kinda like the “lottery” postings.
So poor people buy their food at stores that sell food the cheapest, big deal.
Stacy Cloyd, the Senior Domestic Policy Analyst at Bread for the World Institute, an anti-hunger organization. Knowing which stores attract the most SNAP customers would “allow hunger advocates to learn from successful businesses and share best practices. It would also help them identify the highest-volume vendors so that they can offer the stores information and recommendations on how they cansupply a variety of nutritious foods,” she writes.
That’d be the basis behind your grant request, to study the problem. ..
FOAD
“That money goes to about 47 million low-income Americans”
They might want to revise this statement to 47 million residents of America.
I was at a gas station convenience store this weekend and the woman in front of me had just bought 10 deli sandwiches, paying with a SNAP card. I noted the Bluetooth earpiece she was wearing for her cell phone... and I just started to boil inside.
SNAP cards should not exist... if people need assistance it should be a humbling and humiliating experience. This business with a debit card to get a monthly cash infusion needs to go... there is no sense of shame that the user is on assistance at all...
and for the $100 of sandwiches that woman bought... one could have a pretty amazing feast with cold cuts and rolls... from the GROCERY STORE.
(After all, WE'RE the ones who are paying their tab!)
You can be sure the Obama Administration knows how many food stamps get spent at Walmart. To the penny. To be used as leverage when they cram a union down Walmart’s throat.
100% YES. I am surprised the USDA would actually propose such a thing. Wouldn't be surprised if the crony-capitalists at Wal-Mart and elsewhere make sure it doesn't happen.
This site got the SNAP spending for 2006-2009 in MA per store location with a FIOA, MA tried to sue him for publishing it, but MA dropped the charges.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2010/oct/18/where-massachusetts-food-stamp-money-going/
I’ll bet its a lot. My hunch is that without food stamps, Walmart might now even be profitable.
A 39% increase in 2009, and 2010 shows spending of $1,075,000,000.
These numbers are only higher now.
And $76 billion isn't anywhere near what we spend on SNAP nowadays.