[thecodont]

About a half hour later, she was in the market, with a cart filled with meats and other goodies and then...took out her cell phone and among the things I heard was “The EBT card covers that.”

The day before yesterday I was at the grocery store, in the checkout line behind a healthy 20-something guy who had a cart loaded with cases of beer and pork spareribs. The total was $139 something, and he whipped out an EBT card to pay for it. The cashier declined it, saying the amount exceeded the card's limit. So he put away the card, set aside a couple of items, and paid for the rest ($98) with a $100 bill.

[Justaham]

Same thing happened to me. A Mexican couple in front of me at the grocery store had their cart loaded with junk food. All I could think of was “I’m going to be pissed if they pay with an EBT card!” Sure enough, the whole bill was almost $200.00. Paid $120 with EBT and the rest with their ATM card!!

And BTW - the couple had their 5 kids with them!! All probably on welfare.

[Jane Long]

How can you tell it's an EBT card? Don't they make them look like "regular" credit/debit cards to "mask the shame" of welfare?

I do see a lot more folks paying with multiple cards/cash combo, though....now that you mention it.