I have a relative who works at Walmart. She has a bachelor’s degree and 2 years of law school, and a full-time job. She does cashier work at Walmart to help pay off her student debt and to save enough to go back to school. The stories she tells of the purchases made with those EBT cards.... She says that she can always tell when an EBT card will be used because of the way they just pile their stuff together on the register belt. She is always amazed that there is no effort made to put the goods in any sort of order. Makes sense, though, doesn’t it?
Also, there are some that she sees regularly. She says that they just wander around the store for hours and buy all kinds of dumb stuff.
That is an interesting point about EBT users just pilling stuff on the belt because they aren’t paying for it and they don’t care. Just like the fact that free lunch kids just throw out the food they don’t want and my kids always know to bring home unfinished food so I can use it the next day if it is not perishable.