I’m just back from my local Giant Eagle. No EBT card signs on the doors. The “demographics” of the store’s customers are quite different than usual!
I have never actually seen anyone actively using it and I do watch some of the time. I am actually surprised by the number of people I see pay in cash. I would wager, though, that certain areas of the city have something like 90% EBT transactions.
You appear to have misspelled “improved.”