When I was in college I stayed in the rough part of town because it was cheap. The local supermarket, such as it was, would always have a bunch of people standing outside offering to sell you their food stamps for pennies of the dollar because food stamps won’t buy booze, cigarettes, or drugs. This was 25 years ago. It’s nothing new. I guess the innovative thing here was the store owner being the purchaser of said stamps.
Except they don’t use food stamps anymore. They use a SNAP debit card that scans. I am guessing you have to be a merchant with a scanning POS system to rip them off these days.
Precisely, nor is it in any way a novel event. This has been going on since these things were issued.
The other scam is one of 'shopping to order'--buying high end groceries and 'turning' them for half price.
You really didn't think those folks were grilling ribeyes every night, or that they ate that much lobster, did you?