This must really suck for the poors that couldn't shop until their food stamps were loaded onto their cards, and those on SSI and SSDI that get paid once a month. How are they suposed to stock up with limited funds that only happen at certain times?
The issue is complex. But based on my own personal experiences with this issue, I have my suspicions that these folks lack some basic life skills.
For example, like 10 years ago, my husband and I were in line at the grocery store, on a Friday night, buying our weekly beans, bread, cheese, rice, onion and ground beef. In front of us were two women with 20 bucks worth of frozen TGI Fridays appetizers.
Just take a wild guess, as to who had EBT?
Another anecdote: the people across the street went into foreclosure. In California you can redeem recycled booze and cola bottles and cans, for a small refund. So hey, wanting to collect free cash, I bagged up all the recycling in their back yard.
What was back there? Jaw-dropping premium cocktails and beers ... stuff that sells for like $10 for a six-pack.
That is what they were getting drunk on, every night . ..
So I hope I answered your question.
Some of this is knowledge that is passed down from grandmother to aunts and mothers to their children ...
How to turn sausage and canned beans and an onion, into bean soup; how to eat a potato with your meat rather than eat more meat; how to bulk up a soup with rice and toasted stale bread; how to convert slightly old vegetables into a vegetable stock; etc. etc.
Instead, this morning in some parts of LA, you had lines in the supermarkets going out to the street.
Don't spend your Gibs on Pork Rinds and Kit Kats the day you get them.
Damn I wish I could go thru your checkout line. You are probably one of the entertaining ones.
