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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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RE: small grocery stores will feel the pain.
As Bill Clinton was often quoted for saying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcp6FM5Rwks
But after Mamdani’s inauguration all the groceries will be free in NYC at least.
Other places will wait for the next election to go socialist and get the goodies. /S
To include Dr. Jill’s favorite bogada?
I’ve never heard of pigeon peas.
In the Great Depression people raised pigeons as food, though.
In the World War I years the US Government actually recommended raising pigeons, eating their eggs and using them as a source meat.
Any welfare needs to be allotted at STATE level, once states voted it away to Washington the graft and corruption began as it created MORE government workers while the staffs within the states stayed the same? If it were state alone having to dole out cash they would keep tighter rein on the cash and who gets it,.
I remember a woman at Kroger calling me over and asking me the difference between two items, one with a better discount but the other with two slightly smaller ones for a good price if bought together. She said she couldn’t do math. It actually was tricky.
This post NOT directed at the truly needy. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor and rich is better.”
—Mae West.
“You know coming into a great deal of money doesn’t automatically make someone happy.”
Bacall: “Yes, but it doesn’t automatically depress me, either.”
THE UPSIDE:
NOT SO MANY PEOPLE THERE_—SO SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE MORE EASILY SEEN.
No, sorry. I've lived in this small apartment complex in Oneida County, NY for the past 25 years. and although my rent has gone up $10 or $15 dollars every other year, it's nothing compared to other parts of the country. I'm 78, several of the people in this building are senior citizens, and the landlord has never gouged us.
As far as Walmart goes, I don't buy their own meat products, or anything from their pre-packaged deli area. If I need meat, I go to one of the other grocery stores in my city. I do buy Eggland's Best eggs at Walmart, only because they are cheaper than the other three stores here. I have bought brand name luncheon meat like Wunderbar bologna, for sandwiches at Walmart. I don't buy the pre-cut stuff, but have the clerk cut the amount I want and the cut I want. I don't like their breads at Walmart, and buy mine from a local Italian bakery. I also don't like to buy vegetables from them either, and avoid it if possible.
I do agree with you that disabled people don't want to have to run around to different stores to get their stuff. I hate having to do that myself, but if Walmart or one of the other stores here, doesn't have a product I need, or a product in the package size I need, I end up having to do that anyway. Walmart only sells Confectioner's sugar in bags. I want it in the box, because I use a whole box for buttercream frosting. Bags are too hard to measure the powdered sugar out of without getting it all over the place, so I have to go to a particular local store here to get it in the box. That same local store has 1% chocolate milk in the half gallon, but most times, the expiration dates on them are one or two days away, so I have to go elsewhere to find the same thing with a later expiration date. It's a pain in the rear end. Also, Walmart and the stores in this area have stopped carrying products I used to buy from them all the time. Walmart and one other store here used to carry Bob Evans Sage Sausage in the tube. I'd use it in my stuffing for Thanksgiving. Now you can't find it anywhere around here. Walmart also used to carry Bob Evans breakfast sausage patties and links, but the Aldi's here does. Walmart carries no Bob Evans products now.
I doubt SNAP will allow you to buy alcohol, but perhaps it would enable people to use the money they do have towards it.
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Here’s how the “work around” works for SNAP recipients to get cash.
They approach you in a grocery store and make an offer.
The general rule is double the price in food for cash.
So $80 dollars in meats purchased would net them $40.
Do you have numbers on how often that happens?
It’s amazing that Benny Johnson is totally absolving/protecting the Democrats who passed/support laws that do this to people. He’s either uneducated, or he’s secretly supports Democrats.
Yeah, but the rest of us will actually be able to go to Walmart and find food in stock.
I got approached at my local kroger with a sob story about how he needed to buy clothes for an job interview and wanted to pay for my groceries in exchange for cash.
but it has only happened once, and I doubt it would happen at whole foods or some of the other better groceries near me
Do you have numbers on how often that happens?
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No.
Purely, anecdotal from first hand experience.
When I was in my 20’s in the 1990’s, I benefited a handful of times as the guy receiving meat purchases from the guy that needed cash.
It could be different now.
Ever hear of the fungability of money?
One dollar of his own money which a buyer does not have to spend on food (because he can use SNAP, instead) is a dollar that is now free to be spent on booze.
Regards,
Then the small grocers don’t market themself well and we’re just greedily existing on govt subsidies. Get a real income.
EXACTLY like USAID and other pork fests.
And exactly like the $40,000,000,000,000 national debt and debt limit (by end of year) they collectively built as we see today.
100%. House of cards businesses, to include the biggies like Walmart/Sam’s Club, Meijers/Kroger etc. down to the corner Walgreens, CVS, 711, and the uncountable ‘independent’ gas stations do not exist in a free market as we know it.
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