“Grocery stores are only compensated.....”
Not So. Food Stamp shoppers pay the exact same price as everyone else. They just use someone elses money. The government (state, fed, or local) is not involved in any way with my wholesale purchasing.
The cost of an item is the same for food stamp or pay-your-own shoppers, it's true, but I was told by a retailer several years ago that the government only reimbursed a percentage of every food stamp 'dollar' spent.
Was I told wrongly?