I was checking out at the grocery store yesterday. The lady in front of me was buying $150.00 worth of groceries, mostly "quick dinner" items, sweets, pop, etc. The real kicker was a tiny jar of macadamia nuts that cost $7.49. Then she pulls out the WIC card and $30.00 comes off the bill.
"Then she pulls out the WIC card and $30.00 comes off the bill."
Was she the size of a double-wide?
I worked for a grocer many years ago....and very few people used the program as it should be used. My very first day a woman came through my line with $100 worth of crab. At that time I had never even tried crab. After a few years of witnessing these types of abuse you get very jaded about Food Stamp programs.
I'll never forget two similar instances I witnessed, years apart and in two different states. The first, a man in his 40s or 50s buying nothing but potato chips and jars of pimientos at a grocery store in St. Louis, and paying with food stamps. The second, a man in his early 20s at a 7Eleven in WV, buying candy, and paying with food stamps. What a world.