When I lived in Virginia Beach, I noticed a well dressed young Black couple buying nothing but steaks. I was behind them in line and it came to over $200. They paid with food stamps.
I only had a few items and followed them out. They got into a new Alfa Romeo sports car.
There was a lady in our office who had worked for the state welfare office. I told her about it and she said they would sell the steaks for cash.
She said the worst thing was the expensive sports car. If I reported it to the state, they would actually investigate but she said it would turn out to be in someone else’ name and they would claim they borrowed it.
We know the owner of our local Chinese grocery store. He recently put in tanks for fresh Alaskan King Crab - $40/lb. I asked: whose got the money for that??
He didn’t even look up and said “its all EBT.” then he motioned out the window to people just leaving his parking lot “like them.” It was a Russian family, getting into a Lexus SUV.