Food Stamps
THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE 47% -- RIDING THE WAGON!!! Under the heading of YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS , this is an actual event that I personally witnessed and was a part of today. At approximately 2:30ish pm, September 6, 2012, I entered the Kroger store on SR-28 in Goshen, Ohio, to pick up a few items. I gathered my items and went to the 10 and under register to check-out. The person in front of me (white female, approximate age 35-43, fake nails, big braided hair do, clean clothes, carrying a purse and a plastic drinking cup) put her purchase on the check out surface ONE GRAPE. Yes, that is correct ONE GRAPE. The cashier asked if that was all, she replied yes. The cashier then weighed the GRAPE and told the women the cost was $.02 (TWO CENTS), the women then pulled out her EBT card (credit card for food stamps) and swiped it through the credit card machine, requesting $24.00 in cash back. The cashier asked if she wanted the GRAPE, the woman replied no and the GRAPE was put in the garbage can. The register recorded the sale as .02, cash back $24.00, credit .02, total $24.00 cash back. The cashier then asked if two fives would be okay because was out of tens, the woman agreed and took the $24.00 folded it up and put it in her pocket and left the store. As the next person in line I asked the cashier as a tax payer what in the hell just happened here? She said she was on the clock and could not comment. I then asked if I had actually seen this person purchase and discard a GRAPE, then get cash back on her EBT card. The cashier responded that it happens all day, every day in their store. She also said that if the person buying the GRAPE has it ring up over .02 they get mad and make her reweigh it. My next comment was to ask the cashier if she planned to vote in November and she said she could hardly wait for voting day to get here as one tax payer to another. I paid for my groceries, in cash, and left the store madder than 10 wet hens. This is not one of those stories that a friend of a friend told a friend I WITNESSED THIS AND WOULD LOVE TO TESTIFY IN COURT TO WHAT I SAW, however, it is apparently not illegal to go into a grocery store and buy a GRAPE, throw it away and take cash back from a food stamp EBT card and walk out the door. If she is so poor she needs food stamps why in the hell didnt she buy groceries. Please send this to everyone you know this needs to get out to the public, if we dont get the takers stopped we are all doomed.
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