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
The cashier asked if
that was all, she replied yes. The cashier then weighted 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 for11/6/12 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 didn't she buy groceries. This needs to be
known to the public, if we don't get the takers stopped we are all doomed. Thank
you.
DMM & Associates
Northwoods Patriots - Standing up for Faith, Family, Country - northwoodspatriotscomm@gmail.com
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I ran this through truthorfiction.com which more people really ought to do before passing along all the doodoo that comes via email.
ReplyDeleteGo here for the real story http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/EBT-2-%20penny-Grapes.htm
The original version of this was from Florida, not Ohio.
"Transactions like this happen every day at this Gainesville Publix store, according to a company spokesperson, but the cards being used are not EBT or any sort of government issued assistance for food.
The spokesperson told us that these cards are pre-loaded ATM cards handed out by a nearby plasma center who compensates donors for their time. He also told us that the donors are easy to spot as they shop for low cost sodas or chips to cash out their ATM cards. Their arms are bandaged near the elbow."