Take soda out of food stamp elgibility?

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Originally Posted by Rocky

reread what hearl wrote

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I am aware of what he wrote. I was agreeing with him. I was adding something about smoking indoors while he discussed someone banning smoking outdoors. I'd rather have someone do it outdoors than in.

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Originally Posted by MikeJones

Go to Jenkins at the first of the month. The amount of red bull sold there is unbelievable. Needs to be looked at everywhere. You can get a pound of pinto beens for under a dollar.

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Was like that around here for awhile but someone stopped that finally

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Originally Posted by MikMo

There's an argument for and against this. The nutrition issue aside, you have people, up here especially, that take food stamps and buy nothing but cases of pop. I've been in Wal Mart and the local grocery stores on the first of the month and see people with shopping carts full of nothing but pop....you tell me somebody can drink that much in a month? It's no secret that these people trade the pop for drugs, which is about as lowlife as you can get.

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my wife and I make pretty good money and we buy our pop in bulk when it goes on sale, i dont think ive ever traded it for drugs either. Dont judge a book by its cover, there is a REASON that pop goes on sale at the first of the month, these grocery store owners arent stupid.

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Originally Posted by Rocky

my wife and I make pretty good money and we buy our pop in bulk when it goes on sale, i dont think ive ever traded it for drugs either. Dont judge a book by its cover, there is a REASON that pop goes on sale at the first of the month, these grocery store owners arent stupid.

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Dont get offended because you buy in bulk.

You dont have to judge a book by its cover. All you have to do is wait for them to pull out that certain EBT card to pay for those cases of cokes. Many people that buy nothing but two carts full of sodas on the first of the month are using food stamps to do so. I saw it when I was a cashier many years ago and I see it now.

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Originally Posted by imported_elp6n

Dont get offended because you buy in bulk.

You dont have to judge a book by its cover. All you have to do is wait for them to pull out that certain EBT card to pay for those cases of cokes. Many people that buy nothing but two carts full of sodas on the first of the month are using food stamps to do so. I saw it when I was a cashier many years ago and I see it now.

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was simply saying that not everyone that buys their drinks in bulk are selling them for drugs

But come on, one or two shopping carts full and buying on food stamps? I drink a lot of pop but could never down that much in a month. You got to call a spade a spade.

I was at Target in Kingsport a couple weeks ago and they had Coke products on sale. My wife and I bought probably 20 twelve packs and used good old green leaves to buy them. I see what both sides are saying. The ones that use the EBT cards are probably buying for other reasons, but the ones who use money are stocking up on a good deal; otherwise, why use money to buy pop to trade for drugs when you could just use the money.

food stamps dont specifically come on the first of the month.
they are also based on household size and income.

Why do you think Wal Mart has a sign up on their 24 packs of pop: "Limit 6 only please"....they're not stupid. And actually in other retail chains, it's usually the in house store brand that goes on sale at the first of the month. Coke products (24 pack) usually run around 6.98 at Wal Mart. The only price reduction I see from them is 7-Up, which they usually take a dollar off 12 packs every now and then.

Do people actually by drugs with coke products?