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Subject YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS: I WITNESSED THIS AND WOULD LOVE TO TESTIFY IN COURT TO WHAT I SAW

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One of my first jobs was a cashier for a mini-convenience store chain. Back then, the govt was still issuing the paper food stamps. Similar to a coupon book. Denominations of $1, $5, $10, & $20.

When purchases was made and change owed, the policy was if you had the change in food stamps, then that's what you gave. But if you didn't, you had to give their change in 'real' money.

If was not uncommon to have people come in at 7:01am (back then we opened at 7am), they'd buy a charms blow pop or now & later candy, which were priced at 5 or 10 cents. The two cheapest items we carried at the time. They'd pay with a $20/food coupon, and since we NEVER started our cash drawer with any stamps (all real money), we had to give them back their $19+ in real currency.

These same people would come back later.....not caring at all that you knew how they were scamming the system, and they would buy cigarettes, beer, etc.

I thought that was the main reason that govt switched from the paper stamps to the food stamp card...to close this loop hole for the abusers of the welfare system. I had no idea that this was still going on.
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It's not still going on. Ebt has cash options for disabled and for child support.

So it wasn't money designated for food that was used. It was to avoid the atm fee
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Original Message At approximately 2:30 pm, September 6, 2012, I entered the Publix
store on Main St. in Gainesville, FL to pick up a few items. I gathered
my items and went to the 14 and under register to check-out. The person in
front of me (a 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 weighted the GRAPE and told the women the cost was $.02 (TWO CENTS), the
women then pulled out her Food Stamp EBT card 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.
The cashier then asked if four 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 Food Stamp 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 11/6/12 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. While walking to my car I passed
a black middle aged woman who wanted to know if I had fifty cents to give
her (she really didnt know how close she was to getting an ear full at this
point). I told her no and continued to walk, she looked at my right hand
that held the change from my groceries and saw the money and while looking
at my hand asked again you sure you dont got fifty cents my answer was a
very forceful, loud, rude and no nonsense NO I DO NOT. She walked away
from me to a young couple ,and they gave her money.

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?

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