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Store manager Jose Pajares says he's slashing prices and stocking less food since business has slowed down at the Save A Lot in Springfield, Mass. The bulk of their customers depend on SNAP benefits, and the store depends on their business. A lapse in funding would hurt everyone.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Theresa Rios came to the grocery store this week with a shorter shopping list than usual. And she's also paying even more attention than usual to price.
Walking past a shelf of items labeled "Real Bacon Bits" next to packages of imitation bacon bits, Rios doesn't hesitate. "This is $2.19 and this is $1.59," she says, "so I'm going to buy this."
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And liquor stores.............
Well then, NPR, call your rulers (you know who they are since you kiss their Obamaholes daily) and tell them to end the gubmit closure. Get to it, you worthless lib arts clingers.
Liberal Senator Chucky says “Try the dog biscuits.”
When all the illegals are knocked off SNAP, all grocery stores will feel the pain. And then they’ll raise the prices on the hard-working people who pay cash out of their own pocket for their food.
Ya they can’t buy 200 bucks worth of food stamps for 100
I doubt SNAP will allow you to buy alcohol, but perhaps it would enable people to use the money they do have towards it.
“A lapse in funding would hurt everyone.”
Since when is our own money either taken from us by the US government or piled on the national debt going to hurt everyone? Ahhh, shut up NPR and can’t wait until you get shut down, we all save money and get more freedom.
I live within about 40 minutes of Springfield when I did some grocery shopping this weekend the stores honestly did seem a bit slower, and I didn’t notice any giant overflowing carts full of junk food like I would normally see in the past.
Uh, Ms. Rios, most everyone looks for a good deal. It's called "shopping."
Certain stores that have license to accept SNAP or EBT have been known the ring up a quart of booze as a gallon of milk, etc.............
There might be some bargains in ‘food deserts.’
Halal markets in Dearborn hardest hit.
Article from NPR? Why would anybody bother to read that crap? Shut them down.
Snap has been shut down for three days. And two of them were weekend days.
These stories are BS.
Benny Johnson was on a 2-hr rant today about these people that can buy live lobster, truffles, caviar, etc. that we pay for. Many or most are blaming the rats, spare me. The uniparty has funded every nickel of it without raising a question, they got caught by a shutdown, imagine that.
42 million people on the handout? $40,000,000,000,000 in debt by the end of the year and over half of our population is obese.
The vast scale of the socialist state is being laid bare.
Marie Antoinette would have some advice for NPR.
well lucky for them President Trump just found a way to pay SNAP
Are you familiar with the problem where rent in some places is through the roof because all the landlords know that everyone in that area is on assistance or where hospitals charge exorbitant prices because they know that the insurance companies will pay it?
Ive noticed for example that Walmarts meat/dairy/prepackaged deli is easily 200% or more higher than what the same or better item costs elsewhere even out at some of my small rural stores which themselves are often ripoff operations.
Having worked with many people with disabilities of some sort, I know that many just want to head to Walmart rather than bother to go multiple places and of course those are just the people that have the option to go more than one place.
The price of some things could entirely crash. I used to buy oxtail for something like $0.59/lb to make soup for my dad. The Mexicans swarmed the country and due to them believing that oxtail was some sort of delicacy the price is now over $9/lb. No illegals with magic money cards driving up the price means far less demand.
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