Never having used SNAP, I wonder how it works when a shopper checks out a mixed order then presents a SNAP card. Are retailers’ point of purchase systems smart enough to separate out the SNAP eligible items, apply the SNAP balance to those items, then present a remaining balance due (along with a list of the associated items) which needs to be paid with other means? Or is it just buzz, process shut down, cashier needs to figure out what went wrong, everybody else held up for 15 minutes while customer argues with cashier?
That's more like what I've seen happen -- hold up the line while arguing and wearing the cashier down.
Then when fatigue sets in, the cashier just rings it up as something else of equal value.
Then plod out of the store to climb in the car illegally parked either in the fire lane, or in the handicapped spot.
And before anyone righteously jumps in, this isn't perpetuating stereotypes -- it's reporting observations.