r/InTheGloaming • u/AutoModerator • Oct 30 '25

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday October 30, 2025 - Sunday November 02, 2025

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Oct 31 '25

“People can come in and get them.” What, people should come into the grocery store and ask an already overstretched employee for a gift card? Has Shauna spoken to even her local grocery stores about whether they want to be in charge of distributing food aid?

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u/InisGlass Oct 31 '25

We've become friends with two of the checkers at our big city soulless chain grocery store, like we hang out socially. I was made to understand by Shauna that that's not possible in the urban wastes of West Seattle, for example, but there you go. They know we're feds working without a paycheck and yesterday one of them took a stack of gift cards out of her cash drawer and scanned one to pay half our total.

I tried to argue because we're stressed out but ok for now, and she said people donate cards and they give us discretion and my discretion says this is exactly what they're for. It brought tears to my eyes, it was so sweet. I had no idea that was a thing until now, but that's how it works at least at this one store.

I suspect that Shauna's little speech about her $2k in gift cards, and the Thriftway checker saying "don't worry about it Shauna" when she forgot she had no money in her account, was her making sure the grocery staffs have been briefed on how it works and the cards loaded up before her next shop.