Current Events > That's fucked up, Online grocery EBT only covers the store's brand on many items

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Want to buy a frozen meal from a Kroger Brand Smith's grocery store? That's not covered under SNAP/EBT

Want to buy a Kroger brand frozen meal from a Kroger Brand Smith's grocery store? Of course that's covered by SNAP/EBT

I spent 25 minutes talking to somebody in their office, they acted like it's a "website glitch".

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If we absolutely have to have SNAP, it just needs to be replaced with no-strings cash. If you starve anyway, that's on you.
The only purpose the arbitrary limitations serve is to make bootstrappers feel self-righteous.

The store brand is cheaper, be happy

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Store brand is usually cheaper. They are doing you a favor honestly. Why pay 4 bucks for a box of Cheerios when you can get the exact same thing store branded for 2.50? Fuck brand names. Espiecally for medicine. Like 50%+ more expensive. Straight up ripping people off for pain relief.

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Fair next

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This is not legal fwiw. Report them to your AGs office or maybe your state DHS

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pikachupwnage posted...

Store brand is usually cheaper. They are doing you a favor honestly. Why pay 4 bucks for a box of Cheerios when you can get the exact same thing store branded for 2.50? Fuck brand names. Espiecally for medicine. Like 50%+ more expensive. Straight up ripping people off for pain relief.

The are not doing me a favor, they were doing this on products that were worse and the same price.

Also this is fucked up logic, just because it's snap the store should get to choose what I buy? What if it's like 'the best value is dog food, so that's the only thing the snap will cover'

Are you going to be like "they are doing you a favor"

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Balrog0 posted...

This is not legal fwiw. Report them to your AGs office or maybe your state DHS

So I said "fuck 'em, I'm not going to be manipulated" and went to the store with the not-covered items and it let me purchase everything with snap, so what I think their scam is, is their website makes you think ebt won't cover something, so you switch and buy their product, but since they actually would have covered it if you came to the store they aren't technically doing something illegal. They are just making lots of money manipulating people into thinking they don't have a choice they do.

That or because I made a phone call I got the "don't scam this customer because he notices" tag on my account and so that's why all my products that should be EBT were.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

The only purpose the arbitrary limitations serve is to make bootstrappers feel self-righteous.

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