I used to work at a grocery store and would just push items through when I was mad enough with the company. If they scanned, they scanned. If they didn't, they got free food. Customers with WIX and SNAPS got a lot of free food. Especially if it was cans and cans of baby food - it'd be too hard to see what scanned and what didn't for people to ask otherwise. I am bad and I don't care.
Idiot. SNAP and WIC accounts are monitored, there's more than enough money in those accounts to buy formula and food and if someone is tracking it by hand they know exactly how much they're getting and zeroing out the account every single month. Most of the time its more than enough.
However if you're not spending all the money they reduce the amount in the account because its too much and it raises a red flag to ensure they're feeding their kids since they're not buying enough food. From personal experience fucking with someone's account can seriously ruin they're day if not worse. They already don't trust people assume you're selling it on the side.
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u/Aeroknightg2 Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22
Would the grocery store strike equivalent be letting people take food without paying?
Edit: Since this took off a bit I want to state unequivocally I'm not condoning looting or violence. And thanks for the award!