“Occasionally, a shopper would wheel up a full cart - and you got the impression “we” were paying for it...”
Oh, bet the farm, cows and chickens on it.
I went there once with an uncle of mine (Korean War vet who lived in the real USA) and he said to me as we pulled up: “What the f*** are we going to this welfare dump for?”
That’s funny; in the store near me most shoppers seem normal (again, most are just picking up a couple of things).