Yep, saw it.
Did you also realize that food stampers get Amazon Prime at less than 1/2 price of what those of us who work for a living are charged? Not kidding.
Corporate cronyism. It won’t be long now.
And we wonder why socialism seems like such a good deal the gibsmedats.
when I spend the day at the beach trolling for loose change, I can always use someone to deliver my lobster, caviar, Haagen Das, and champagne.
How can I qualify for Obamazon Prime?
Amazon actually does have some good prices for food if you purchase a large amount. I still have parts of 3 cases of Campbells soup, Castelbury beef stew and spam.
I got them cheaper than Walmart and they were shipped to my door for free.
This is probably a good thing for poor shut ins, especially in bad neighborhoods.
Hopefully, it’s only for survival cookbooks. How to cook roadkill and stuff like that.
some items are overpriced, some not
it depends
i am not a Bezos fan by any means, but some Amazon prices are OK .. and their service is 99 percent in our experience
the one thing you need to watch out for is.. if you sign up for their Subscribe and Save service... sometimes they increase the prices on the items you’ve subscribed to... they do not seem to send any notice of these price hikes, so you may wish to watch them very closely a few days before they ship each month.
some price hikes are just 6 cents, but occasionally they can double an item’s price and you get charged (and receive the item) before you realize what happened (unless you are monitoring as above)
You can get Amazon Prime with EBT too - https://www.amazon.com/l/16256994011
In fact, Amazon Fresh, Amazon's online grocery store, was started in Seattle more than ten years ago.
For low income elderly and disabled persons, Food Stamp home delivery might actually be more economical than the hodgepodge of delivery methods that Social Services has previously used.
Money is money..
I think the point is that people buying from Amazon are not idiots nor are they necessarily spendthrifts.
One of the largest companies in the world, Amazon, just
shuttered its food delivery service, Amazon Restaurants.
But Amazon’s fails are a bit different.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/04/738724355/amazon-shuts-down-food-delivery-service
Insofar as there is an EBT system, buying food thru Amazon is fine. Deals can be had, home delivery may be needed by the remote or immobile.
This solves the “but food deserts” complaint. Practically anyone anywhere can get near any need supplied at a decent price, most delivered in 2 days.
They sell food. The Fed probably requires them to accept food stamps.
How else will they get a ten bag of Cheetos on your dime?