Posted on 10/15/2013 9:10:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Walmart has no regrets about allowing a wild shopping spree at two of its Louisiana stores when an electronic glitch lifted the spending caps on the cards of food stamp recipients.
"We know we made the right choice," Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told ABCNews.com today.
The chain has no regrets even though Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services said food stamp recipients should have been limited to $50 each during the emergency and that Walmart will have to pay the difference.
Lundberg declined to comment about how much the company may have lost or why it did not follow the emergency $50 limit.
Another Walmart spokeswoman Kayla Whaling said, "Our focus was to continue serving our customers." Food stamp recipients jammed into Walmarts in Mansfield and Springhill Saturday when word of the glitch spread.
Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd said some customers were buying eight to ten grocery carts full of food.
The store in Mansfield temporarily closed because of overcrowding and Mansfield Chief of Police Gary Hobbs said some shoppers left with up to eight carts of food and then went back for more....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Might have saved a loot and burn - at least now they’ve still got a store.
How hard would it be to limit EBT purchases to $50.00 for a short period of time? That would allow those who needed food to get some, and then come back in a few days.
There’s something that really ribs me wrong about surrendering to the parasite class.
I didn’t even read the article. In there it says exactly that. How hard was that to comprehend? Simply amazing...
Who? Walmart or the EBT leaches.
I’m so glad I work to buy food and stuff....I mean who really wants to just go get free stuff from a store?...I’d much rather pay with my wages after the govt takes half of it in taxes....its so much more rewarding, you know..
Walmart is not stuck with the bill - anyone who shops at walmart is paying the bill. Businesses just raise prices to cover losses or increased costs.
Walmart should have shut down their store due to a temporary emergency when this got out of control.
” So they just said go ahead, rob us, at least then you won’t try to kill us. “
...sounds to me like a microcosm of post-Regan America.
Hey Walmart. When do us non-food stampers get our free shopping spree?
My mom got her bank account ripped off at a teller window for about $23,000. The videotape she watched with the cops, bank people, and a few others unknown made the bank people very uncomfortable. She got her account credited and the bank declined to cooperate with the police any more on the matter.
The police told my mom that it was most likely a bank employee and they didn't want the bad press thru police reports and court activity.
Nice huh?
You got it.
The Corporate-VP-In-Charge-of-Bribing-Minorities-So-They- Don't-Kill-Your-Employees-and-Burn-Down-Your-Store (aka Diversity Outreach) was told by the head actuary: "up to $1000/per, it's cheaper to just let it go."
So they did.
Let's hope they locked up the firearms and the ammo in Sporting Goods.
It's very hard to stay optimistic when we have parasites like this making up a sizeable portion of our population. Sad.
Well, you paid for that one in two ways, is that close enough?
Well it’s nice she got her money back. That’s for sure.
I know what you mean though. It sucks, but at least they did the right thing by your mom.
Does Walmart reveal what percentage of its sales are from EBT?
I bet they don’t - because it would show Walmart have become basically a US Government-sponsored entity.
Most large retailers are more afraid of bad publicity and lawsuits than they are about protecting merchandise. The government allows them to write off a small percentage each year for “loss” and they build a certain percentage into the margins.
These people should be ashamed of themselves, but they won’t be. Too many people have been told they are owed something for nothing.
You can bet if these were white folks and their debit/credit card system went down...WalMart would just say “tough”
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