[MrB]

That’s the “hook” for businesses as well.

If you “accept EBT”, then you have some guaranteed shoppers in the form of people who don’t care how much something costs because someone else is paying for it.

[TigerClaws]

Right. Stuff like Coke and other likely EBTer purchases has a huge mark up.

Of course, if Moo-chelle were really concerned about obesity, there’d be limits on what EBT purchasers could buy. They’d sign a deal with Jenny Craig and get all the fatties on Welfare as customers.

I see at least 3-4 people in ‘scooter’-type things simply for being too fat to walk every time I go to Walmart.

[JimRed]

If you “accept EBT”, then you have some guaranteed shoppers in the form of people who don’t care how much something costs because someone else is paying for it.

How hard would it be to program the scanners to reject EBT for other than basic needs?