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PLANT CITY, Fla. - A new advertisement from a Plant City grocery store is causing some concern. The promotion basically offers to accept food stamps in exchange for cigarettes and beer.
The store isn't doing anything technically illegal. They are just taking full advantage of the fact that under Obama we now live in "food stamps nation" (another record high number of food stamp recipiants was announced yesterday). I also give the store owner credit for knowing who their customers are. They have probably seen for themselves food stamp card swipers trying to buy beer and cigarettes with their card and then get angry when these items are rejected.
I am against so many people on food stamps to begin with but I can't blame a small business who wants to maximize the situation, It's out of the box thinking.
The store isn't doing anything technically illegal. They are just taking full advantage of the fact that under Obama we now live in "food stamps nation" (another record high number of food stamp recipiants was announced yesterday). I also give the store owner credit for knowing who their customers are. They have probably seen for themselves food stamp card swipers trying to buy beer and cigarettes with their card and then get angry when these items are rejected.
I am against so many people on food stamps to begin with but I can't blame a small business who wants to maximize the situation, It's out of the box thinking.
It's good capitalist logic - cut out the middleman.
Nobody should come between your Government and your beer.
If the customer pays just one extra dollar, the store will throw in cases of beer or cigarettes.
Seriously does this even make economic sense for the store owner? What does a case of beer cost now? $15-$20 bucks just to get $60 bucks from a food stamp recipient?
If the customer pays just one extra dollar, the store will throw in cases of beer or cigarettes.
Seriously does this even make economic sense for the store owner? What does a case of beer cost now? $15-$20 bucks just to get $60 bucks from a food stamp recipient?
If the profit margin on the meat is high enough, it may be worth it to them to sell what they have a high markup on, and practically give away what they have a low markup on.
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