Yeah, your post touches what I was hinting at in mine: EBT cards have become a major part of the engine which drives our consumer economy. Wal-mart honored those purchases because they didn’t want to alienate a major part of their customer base.
“EBT cards have become a major part of the engine which drives our consumer economy.”
The entire economies of most Democrat-run inner-cities, like Detroit, or Memphis, now subsist almost entirely on Government and drug money, from EBT’s to grants, which finance the drug trade, which finances just about everything else.
When food stamps became handouts, instead of purchases, this began in earnest.