I am an RN, who had 3 jobs, when I woke up one day and couldn't move my legs. My Hip joints had died, and disintegrated and I was suddenly Disabled. . . forced onto early SSD, and on food stamps for a year, until my hips were replaced and I could walk again. They gave me food stamps. Big deal. $16.00 a month. Try eating on that for a month. You never know the circumstances of someone using food stamps. Keep your mouths shut. Be grateful for your health, because you never know when you will turn into that person using food stamps.
+Steeny G: You could have gotten hundreds in food bennies if you'd had a baby instead of bad hips. The system is not set up to help the truly needy it's set up to feed and care for the next slave (tax paying) class. Welfare babies either end up in prison if they're male (doing illegal things in order to earn more than what welfare pays or college debt offers) or they become Baby Factories if they're female - trading their flesh and blood for welfare stipends, even when they know that system will ultimately harm their children. I hope you're feeling better, Steeny. Thank goodness for RN's.
Aleena Aksoy Thanks for the notice, I started going there not too long ago but if that's what they do to customers after they spend most of their money there then I can go to another store!
+Lolita Cox me and honestly people really need to stay out of others business, and carts. idc what they're buying just as long as they're children are eating.
I watched both and I am so shocked by people in this country now. No one seems to have any sympathy for other human bings. Why is this acceptable? We have freedoms no other countries have and we abuse them and shame people because they need help. WHY???!!!!
+Leelo James: You're right, Leelo, but sympathy costs too much nowadays. I've noticed that the super rich and the super poor are some of the most uncharitable people you'd ever want to meet. They believe in getting help but giving it, ehh, not so much. Have you ever had a lecture from a welfare mom who shops at Macy's buying name brands, while you do ALL of your shopping at Walmart because nobody's subsidizing your LIFE? Well, I got the lecture about "getting my life together" from a 29 yr old welfare mom w/ 3 kids and no signs of their daddies when I asked to borrow $5 dollars for gas to take her to an appointment with her welfare technician! This was in 1998, mind you. She was floored by the fact that I wasn't going to let her ride for free and somehow I was the problem with society for asking for petro funds but she was the martyred mother-figure who just couldn't catch a break in life... SMH!
I am an RN who works in HIV supportive housing in NYC. My clients/patients are mentally and physically disabled and some, not all are on SNAP. Most are unable to work, but we have a few who do work part time, and qualify for some SNAP assistance. Most people on dialysis cannot work. The average dialysis session is three days a week for 6 hours straight. The patients are exhausted and tired after a dialysis session. You wouldn't be so quick to judge if it was you needing and waiting for a kidney transplant, and unfortunately most people die before they can receive a transplant.
I worked as a cashier at grocery stores. I can say unequivocally that if I had ever talked to a customer like that, I would've been fired on the spot. How dare this man do this to a customer. Kroger should fire him. Customer service at it's best.
I have food stamps. I have 2 children and a wife. I work and I'm currently enrolled in a university as a senior in cell and molecular biology. I have to pay for rent, car payment, insurance, cell phone bill, electric bill, internet and basic cable (kids want to watch cartoons). It's hard to pay all that with a part-time job and still try and manage graduating with a degree so I don't have to depend on food stamps anymore. The program is abused but it doesn't mean everyone on it is abusing it.
Fr33man1988 Your reliance upon others is astounding, are you also on a student loan? I worked when I was in school, had no cable and walked where I went or rode the bus. I would work then go to school, then work and return to school. I even worked while I attended school, never got a dime from the government. My sympathy card is full, get a job and get off those taxpayer funded food stamps. Haven't you heard because of obama's frivolous spending America is broke. BTW, what is your plan to pay back us taxpayers for all those food stamps we gave you?
Fr33man1988 This is another reason I intensely dislike the socialist programs, people such as you feel you are entitled to my money and have no moral obligation to repay what you have taken from taxpayers like me. A person who attacks someone they don't know is exhibiting a mental problem built upon a feckless mindset. I freely contribute to charities, but find the idea of someone taking something from me as you have with no intention of paying it back highly repugnant. Bless your little heart.
gbuster129 You're not directly paying for shit you moronic idiot. Most of your tax money doesn't even go into programs like food stamps. Christ, you really are an uneducated hick aren't you?
Fr33man1988 Did you learn to communicate by incorporating profanity into your posts in your college classes or from your mama? Your post is indicative you know little about taxes, and nothing about what I pay in taxes. I do not nor never have receive a dime from the government, only paid, and I detest deadbeats such as you who live off my taxes. Your profane attitude and your belief your are entitled to a dime of my tax money suggests you are an obama loving democrat. Bless your little heart.
I had a job that I loved. But cancer took all of that away from me. I am now disabled and get food stamps. I would gladly give the stamps up for my job and my health again.
It is funny how people can pay into the system and we can give foreign aid out but complain when an American receives food stamps to eat and live. Stop all foreign aid to other countries and take care of our citizens first.
Amen ... God Bless You 🙏 These People are Absolutely Vicious About This Sweet Woman Who Has No Kidneys .... They Place Their Judgement Upon Her And Only God Can Judge Us When the Time Comes And I Sure Wouldn't Want Too Be Them Because These Folks Are The Most UnCompassionate And Mean People With Terrible Things They Are Saying !!! What if The Shoe Was On The Other Foot And It Was Them in This Medical Condition ?? Do You Honestly Think They Would Be Saying These Evil Things Then ... God Bless Them That They Have Wonderful Health and No Issues But Some of Us Don't And We Do The Best We Can ... Shame on All Y'all For Saying Nasty and Evil Things About this Women And God Bless Each and EveryOne of Y'all 🙏
Tammy RollTide Rosa I for one don't hate her because of her kidney problems. I find fault that she wants my tax money to take care of her. This is her and her family's responsibility not mine. People we are $18 trillion in debt, we are broke, we have no money, what part of this don't you understand?
+gbuster129 She can't work. If she doesn't get this extra help. She and her family could go hungry. Until you know what it is like to go hungry you have no right to judge her,or anyone else on foodstamps. You obviously have no compassion for her,and her family which only exposes you for the heartless,selfrighteous individual you are.
See, I wish this would happen to me when I am standing in line in a grocery store. I would to have a word with that person. He is lucky I wasnt in line behind you.
omg yes if this happened to me because my mom has food stamps who knows what I would have done maybe kicked his balls grab a water from the coolers and a bag of ice poured it all over him
I went through this EXACT situation with Kroger except that it was W.I.C. We were having a rough time and we needed help getting our son what he needed. By the way, my son is Autistic and has among many other medical conditions a pronounced gag reflex. So, he will literally eat hardly anything but maybe four or five kinds of food and even then not very much of. So, initially he was able to get formula and some baby food. Then as he got older he was Still on baby food but also drinking Pediasure primarily and eating YoBaby's soy yogurt. The yogurt and Pediasure are VERY expensive and there was no way we could buy that. Like, even if we starved and ate nothing we still couldn't have done it. So W.I.C. was a blessing to us. But every single week. Literally. Without Fail. Not just one of the Kroger cashiers but all but a couple, some of them even managers would scrutinize not only every item in the cart but they would also make me whip out my drivers license and three or four of them at a time would be looking it over, holding it up in the air even and looking it over. They would hold up the line so it made the folks behind me get mad. And as if that wasn't enough they would always call a manager over and they couldn't just call them to the register they would announce it twice. Once in a loud voice and once over the speaker "WIC". So everyone not only behind me in line but everyone in every line and customers walking through the front of the store would turn and look at me and give me looks. It was utterly humiliating and soul crushing. And yes, one cashier would always tell me that if I didn't like it I should get a job like her and everyone else. Never mind that I did have a job. A Full Time every hour of every day with no breaks whatsoever job of taking care of my special needs child. I feel for this woman. I really do know what she had to go through.
+calanthiarose Don't explain yourself... you have no reason to... there's plenty of people out there who will never let go of their hard on for making you feel bad about anything.. just let them play their game.. it's all they know how to do.
Michael Jourdan More or less, I agree with you. I guess I explain myself because once upon a time I wa s ignorant myself. But I have gotten to a point where I don't care what people think of me or what they think they know about me. I just try to do what I think is right.
When I was little and my deadbeat father didn't wanna pay support, my mom went to nursing school, during which time my grandfather drove her to sign up for food stamps. Once she had her nursing degree, we NEVER needed assistance again. What I learned is that not all single moms on food stamps are low-life idiots. I respect people on assistance because they might be in the same boat. You NEVER know what a stranger is doing with their life.
+Nume Moon I am sure your mother is a wonderful person, and according to what you say, she improves everyone's lives around her. It sounds like she was dealt a raw hand and was truly one deserving of help. I cannot, however, abide the advocation for unconstitutional government programs that initiate violence on others to help your mom, no matter how deserving she may be. You just have no right to force others to give you there property for the another's benefit, I am as offended by this disgusting and evil ideology as you are by this perceived slight on your mother who, again, I'm sure is a wonderful person.
Fredrick Kenley Wait, how did my mom's use of government aid lead you to "government programs that initiate violence on others to help your mom." WTF? Huh? What in hell are you on about? And if drugs are involved, seek help. No one's stealing from you. You live in any country, and you'll probably pay taxes. Then leaders divide those taxes, and in most countries a portion of those taxes go into public's most vulnerable citizens because A) we're human and don't have stone hearts, and B) government exists for the people. Do you have the same offenses against things like tax-funded military, national parks, public schools, libraries, and roads? I'm offended by your belligerent affection for stupidity. (EDIT: History often judges past civilizations by how they treated their sick and their poor. Your way is short sighted. You don't seem to understand the long game of civilization.)
+Nume Moon the government has no money to fund these programs, so by definition they must first take, by force, the money from it's citizens to do so. You sound pretty naive, but don't worry, I have hope for you, people grow more conservative as they age and squire wisdom that conquers their emotion, just give it time.
Unfortunately by checking the article and its updates listed; that as of Monday Kroger has just transferred the manager to another store. "Told about the manager's transfer, Nerger said it wasn't "good enough," and suggested he "should have been demoted to cashier so he can learn who is really on food stamps."" I tend to agree with that, give him a choice, go down to cashier with the attendant loss of pay grade until you reprove your competence, or leave not expecting to use them as a reference.
Poor shaming is wrong. Don't judge others. You have not walk a mile in their shoes. A lot of people who works still qualify for food stamps. Shame on the man for judging this sick woman. Mind our own business.
Most of the people that I know who are on food stamps either 1. have a disability of some kind, 2. have to combine food stamps with what minimum wage they make from a part time job, 3. they're a single, stay at home parent raising babies (usually a mother), or 4. they're refused employment for whatever reason.
+20carrocks Most of us on assistance with kids do pay and who said kids are always planned. Most of us born are accidents. The ignorance of your words are sickening.
If births are accidents then there are two idiots in the bed. There is convenient, cheap birth control for either men or women...there should be no "accidents" unless you are a mindless animal driven by base instincts. Case closed.
The guy should lose his job. No one should treat a customer that way. She should have said "my food stamps are paying your salary". I know that there are some people who abuse the system, but that doesn't mean everyone who get food stamps abuses it. In the words of Mark Twain " It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt",
This was at our local Kroger in Warner Robins, GA. I remember hearing about this story in 2012. Sad how people can't mind their own business...you never know what others are going through.
This lady is the reason for foodstamps. Not the lazy ass people who don't want to work. He should have kept his damn mouth shut unless he says that to every person that uses foodstamps.
I remember when food stamps were not EBT cards but actual food stamps. One day when I was very clearly young and healthy, l paid for some food with those food stamps. A man in line glared at me, because obviously l was milking the system. I didn't bother telling him l was a home health aide, shopping for a patient with MS. People love to judge.
i used to be a cashier at Kroger in Illinois. I never did this to anyone, and it is very demeaning to people.I am shocked to hear this,and i am so sorry for this woman.This is horrible!!!!!!! Our manager would have fired anyone for this behavior, on the spot. I say picket this Kroger and let everyone know how this person descriminates against EBT.
+Elley Henderson I didn't say it did. I'm just saying that when you go out looking like the typical "I'm Entitled For Doing Nothing", you have to expect reactions like this.
+john doe all I'm saying is if you look a certain way, people will instantly assume that you are. Unfortunately, she does look like someone who abuses the system.
Some families that where both parents work still can qualify for food stamps. So everyone on assistance isn't lazy. Me and my husband work full time, and have 6 children, and we receive SNAP. It supplements our food bill, which is a big help, and we still buy food also. So it's no ones place to judge , every person situation is different.
Right it depends on your household. I tried to get WIC while I was on unpaid maternity leave and I didn't qualify because they still based it off my salary and my husband's salary. We only had 4 members in our household and was told we needed at least 6.
May I ask a question? Were you and your husband ever financially independent with six children? If not, why did you have children beyond what you could support? Don't get me wrong. I am on food stamps with my two kids. I was financially independent supporting the three of us until I became disabled. I am 49 and have worked since age 13 and bought two homes by myself even prior to having children with my ex. I am curious about your situation. No disrespect.
When I worked for the department of agriculture for the summer I remember a speech I attended spoken by the Secretary of Agriculture. He spoke to us on how the SNAP program benefits millions of people throughout this country. Not only does it help the farmers, but the consumers as well. He was very informative and it made me have a better perspective about people with food stamps. I don't think this woman deserved such disrespect.
WTF some people commenting on here make me sick. These people who don't like others getting help make me want to barf. They must have never lived threw a tough time in their lives.
Well in this case, the woman can't work because she has an illness and her husband doesn't earn a lot, so I understand there why she would use food stamps. But there are some people who use it when they don't even need them, and they're perfectly capable of working. Some people are just lazy. And maybe they were fired from their job so they need food stamps at that time, but a lot of times they continue using them and because of that, they don't see why they need to be working. Same thing with welfare. Food stamps and welfare are meant to help a person while they're figuring out a way to get money again, but some people stop there, and that's what is not acceptable.
Its not that much money you cant live a good life off it. Idc if there are people taking advantage because just knowing it does help some people feed their starving kids is enough. Taking food stamps and welfare away will hurt more people then it would ever help.
@@jackevans6702 What is hard is that a lot of people assume you are taking advantage when you aren't. I'm autistic and learning disabled, and had a few years where I lost jobs until I could work with vocational rehabilitation for job training and to find a good fitting job. In the meantime, I needed food stamps as a 20s something who looks perfectly able-bodied and like I wouldn't struggle at all to be employed, but actually simple jobs like cashiering and food service are off the table for me. Even though its a debit card, some shoppers I could tell noticed it was an EBT card (Minnesota has a standard EBT card that looks the same). I would get nasty looks a few times, one person looked in my bags at what I was buying, and one person commented "well at least you're buying responsible and not just a bunch of junk food on the taxpayers dime".
I work as a cashier and I already see the discomfort in people's face when they tell me they are paying with food stamps...Why judge and make them feel worse...People are such jerks..
I don't judge people using food stamps who use them wisely. I do however judge people who use Food Stamps irresponsibly, case in point: I had a casual conversation with a woman in a Fry's food store about buying 10 boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts ($10.00ea). She was telling me how people where she worked took turns buying doughnuts for the office (which I'm sure is a lie), anyway. When she pulled out her EBT card to pay for the doughnuts, I was appalled and let her know. We went from casual conversation to her bitching me out and to mind my own business. I told her that money is for her children and family, she replied it still wasn't my business. The cashier then instructed me through eye contact to let it go. By this time everyone was looking at this woman like she was the biggest scum on earth, and I agree with them. If a family needs help buying food, I have no problem with it. However, if said family is buying Lobster, Filet mignon, and caviar at a price tag of $200+ on $300 a month in food stamps, then they obviously have the money to buy the regular foods that working Americans buy and shouldn't need the food stamps.
If they can afford that they should also be reported because they are getting food stamps illegally! I guarantee it! You get food stamps the right way you can only afford cheap generic crap that doesn't last quite the whole month! I know! I'm disabled and get food stamps, a whole $107 a month! And it's not because I make too much money I receive so low, they think that should actually feed a person for a month, I can barely afford to pay my bills and being able to afford a vehicle? Even a junk one? Heck I couldn't even come up with money for the insuarance for one much less be able to buy one! And people that legitimately need them are in the same shape as me! So if you see someone buying fancy foods, driving nice cars, fancy new clothes and their hair done, they are getting them illegally! All the clothes I get are handmedowns, I have not been able to buy clothes or even get a haircut since my doctors forced me to quit work!
Michael Cooksey how could you be sure it was a lie? who would need 10 boxes of donuts at once? If they were for her or her family she would not need to buy that many at once as they would go stale. It's not an unbelievable story, and if her work took turns buying them, it was a choice of either "looking bad" in front of you and the rest of the people at the store, or looking bad in front of the people she has to work with for not buying them when it was her turn. You should be ashamed of yourself, feeling so smug for causing an entire store to look down on someone. Did it make you feel better about yourself? Of course it did, and that is probably why you did it. In my opinion, people like YOU are the scum of the earth. Not everyone has the same opportunities and upbringing in life.
Hollie it could have been another lie too, it could have been one of her kids birthdays and maybe instead of cake or gifts even they wanted donuts for their birthday so she was getting them for her kids birthday but didn't want to admit she was feeding it to her kids thinking she'd get the third degree over that, which she most likely would have, so she just said that thinking it wouldn't make them feel the need to judge someone that's obviously already judging them or wouldn't have even asked to begin with why they were buying them! Nobody knows the truth of what happened or the situation of the woman, and that was just one persons side of the story, and people like to lie to get attention, not saying for sure they are but people like to lie especially on here to get likes and comments or to argue even and people love to embellish! Anyway, my point is the truth could be the woman was only buying one or two donuts and since that's not healthy and tax payers pay for it a busybody felt the need to stick their nose in someone's life they had no business in and asked why she was buying two donuts with food stamps instead of real food and maybe the woman said my coworker or friend always buys them for me every day and she/he didn't have the money today so asked me and I was too embarrassed to say I couldn't afford one donut for them after them buying me dozens over the years so I'm going without dinner tonight for this. For all we know that's how the conversation could've actually went, nobody knows and won't know the truth unless the store had cameras with audio and decided to share it with us
Dorothy, that's very true and a good point. We don't really know what happened in truth. What is funny is people will never be happy about what poor people spend their food stamps on. Some complain that they buy food that they think is "too good" for someone on food stamps, others complain that they buy junk with it.. They get a certain dollar amount per month, how they ration it and what they buy is their own choice.. If they spend $100 on a steak or some donuts then that is just less top ramen that they will be able to purchase.. I think the people complaining about what they buy with their benefits just want something to complain about.
Exactly! But Nobody sees it that way! Instead of attacking the big wigs that are getting millions from taxpayers, for each big wig, they go after the poor instead! It's sad! If people get food stamps legally, which most do but aren't publicized like the ones that do wrong, they can barely scrape by food wise buying the cheapest generic junk, and Still will have to go a few days without! And if they do decide to splurge on even a three dollar per person meal that's two meals they don't get on top of that! I am disabled, barely get enough to pay bills, no luxuries like a vehicle, cable, new clothes, haircuts, nails, going anywhere to do anything, never have since my doctor forced me to stop working and signed me up for disability! A lot of what you think of as necessities become luxuries you kiss good bye! And I only get $107 to feed myself for a whole month! That's just a little over three dollars a day! What healthy food can you get and enough of to survive for three dollars a day? None! $107 with of health food wouldn't be enough to feed one person a week! And yes I know if I'd garden if have food from that, well if I could garden I'd be working! Trust me! I love to work and Nobody in their right mind would choose to live life like this if there was any other choice!
I've been on food stamps when my family left an abusive home. Clerks and store managers would announce it to the entire line of people behind us when we got our food. It makes you feel "less than" when you have people snearing and judging you so that you can survive and have something to eat.
Tobacco usage rate are at the lowest level in U.S. history. Also, part of the reason why they're so expensive is due to tax hikes. Hikes the government created to appease prohibitionists. Meanwhile, half the country, whether employed or not are overweight. Metabolic related illnesses are far more prevalent.
Some people, particularly in certain areas, simply can't GET the work. This is not theft. This is assistance from the government. And without it, she and millions like her would not be able to feed herself.
lots of comments defending the use of food stamps. Try working in a grocery store for a while then get back to us on how great they are. Food stamps are great for that small percentage who use them sensibly. but most people buy junk food (no its NOT cheaper) or they are filthy, rude people angry because they don't get more for free. I worked for 20 years dealing with them and everyone i know who did likewise also feels they are a joke. Hungry people don't buy pop or chips. Food stamps are for people who would otherwise go hungry. Want a pop? Get a job because when i worked at stores i couldn't afford pop but i still had to pay taxes for the food stamp people who bought it.
News flash - I didn't say ANYTHING about some people needing them or some people who work needing them. I spoke about the majority who use them OBVIOUSLY not needing them. Food stamps are for people who are HUNGRY - I've been hungry. I was on strike while at the store to end employer abuses of new hires - I got nothing from it except no money, right after I was married. I didn't use the little money I had on pop, candy, chips, cake, gum, breath mints, lobster, prime rib, etc. If you think 90% of food stamp people don't have those in their carts then I suggest you talk to someone you know who works at a store. I bought cheap FOOD. Food stamps should only be for cheap FOOD.
I work in a grocery store and most of the people that I've seen use Food Stamps / SNAP / EBT are buying the things that they need. Vegetables, Fruits, Meats, etc. Now sometimes they do get pop or chips or something else that could be considered a snack type of item... but how they spend the money is their decision. Your taxes go to such a small percentage of people who actually need assistance. Your taxes instead are used for the Military (42 cents per dollar and half of that is spent to fund the current war); Health (such as Medicare); Interest on the National Debt; Anti-Poverty Programs (such as Food Stamps) and I'm going to stop there since this is the issue at hand. Notice how it's not even in the top three. Also a great deal of people with Food Stamps work jobs, but it's still not enough because the minimum wage is less than the cost of living. For example, I have to use my whole first check for rent and it doesn't even cover the whole amount so I have to rely on what's built up in my account from my second check. Now I use my second check for bills, food, and whatever else I want/need. I have to leave enough to cover the remainder of the rent for next month though... This is despite the fact that I work full time and actually get paid a little more than the current minimum wage.
+martthesling actually, she needs kidneys and needs 12 hours of dialysis a day. so she needs foodstamps to feed her family. and *you* need to grow up so you can stop embarrassing yourself
+martthesling not if u eat shit all month or only buy expired stuff(like me).2000 calories is unrealistic for most poeple,like the entire male gender for instance :D
Here in Atlanta the mínimum pay rate is 7.25 and most Jobs start paying that or 8.25... Who can live with 7 miserable dollars really?! I say this lets not get into others business because times are and can be Hard for people!!!
I wish I were surprised. A few weeks ago, a Kroger manager in my area knocked an elderly man down in the parking lot, while the old man was giving free groceries, collected by his church, to the needy.
"The largest portion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget consists of food subsidies, not farm subsidies. Food subsidies will cost taxpayers $79 billion in fiscal 2009 and account for about two-thirds of USDA’s budget. The largest food subsidy programs are food stamps; the school breakfast and lunch programs; and the women, infants, and children (WIC) program. The federal government as a whole has about 26 food and nutrition programs operated by six different agencies." GATO Institute
I'm sure there are people who honestly need them, but I've worked in a retail store for 19 years. I see food stamps abused EVERY day. People with cigarettes and beer in their buggy, etc.
True, we really know nothing about the manager. this seems to be mostly a competency issue about Kroger in general. The article says that: "She and the Kroger employees went back and forth about this for half an hour when a manager acknowledged [she] was right about the purchase all along." It was then out of frustration that he uttered those words. But it seems like the entire cashier section didn't know what they were doing.
Thank you for all you have done. I have zero resentment towards you or anyone justifiably needing a hand up. I do have serious resentment toward this woman for getting $8.lb ham that wasn't part of her benefits, verbally abusing the cashier and manager for over 30 minutes, getting what she wanted and still couldn't just say "THANK YOU" and leave, but had to continue verbally abusing someone until he lost his cool and said something that upset her.
Bottom line is that it wasn't the Kroger manager's place to ever talk to a customer like that. It's none of his business why she is on food stamps and he should have kept his opinions to himself when he was representing Kroger! All these opinions about people on assistance don't have anything to do with this because when he is being paid to be a manager at Kroger he can't say stuff like that to customers.
Look up the whole story she herself told the local GA. television station. Here are the basic facts: She went to Kroger's and wanted to use her Food stamps on $8/lb deli cut Black Forest Ham (about $10 worth). The register refused to accept it as covered. Ms. Cindy Nerger, held up the check out line for 30 minutes to brow-beat the checker. At that point, the manager was called over and he agreed to let her have it - have it, not entitled to it - and she continued to browbeat the manager over it.
I'm guessing whoever said these things is not angry at someone like her, but for the majority that abuse the system... Poor woman... She didn't deserve those things being said to her...
kids I knew who were on food stamps- their parents worked. the income I assumed was still under the poverty level and were eventually accepted into the program because all of their cash went to rent and living expenses.
She was so embarrassed by what was said to her in line, and yet she went on t.v. so millions could know she uses food stamps. I am sorry for her health condition, but why isn't her husband able to take care of his family, perhaps he should be the one embarrassed.
Some people don't get paid enough.. Country has issues that go beyond supposed "lazy" people that don't work.. Most of the people using this aid work full time jobs.
Foodstamps are really a calculated humiliation. It is like they are telling ordinary people that "real money is not something for you, you can use these instead, because we don't trust you". I have heard of AIRLINE PILOTS who are on foodstamps. And of course, everybody who works at Walmart also needs them... How about paying your people a living wage, America?...
According to an ABC report, Congress Mulls Cuts to Food Stamps Program, May 31, 2011, "More than 44.5 million Americans received SNAP benefits in March, an 11 percent increase from one year ago and nearly 61 percent higher than the same time four years ago." It is an issue that should concern every American citizen.
I am a grocery store manager; a lot of my working crew are on EBT themselves. Usually when a situation like this woman's comes up, it's because a foodstampable item is not in the system correctly (i.e. it's the store's fault, not the customer's). That is, to say the least, piss-poor customer service. Surely, the manager in question is burned out, but that is no excuse to treat anyone this way.
According to the USDA official site, the following can be purchased with food stamps. You can look it up yourself. Households CAN use SNAP benefits to buy: Foods for the household to eat, such as: breads and cereals; fruits and vegetables, meats, fish and poultry; and dairy products.Seeds and food plants for the household. Households CANNOT use benefits to buy beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco, pet foods, soaps, paper products and household supplies Vitamins and medicines
I was a cashier for walmart and I saw steaks, shrimp and etc. coming thru....and the person was perfectly healthy, then pay for their beer and cigarettes with cash. I cant stand these users! Especially because I went to work, but they cut me off from food stamps because I made to much money, yet could not even pay my rent or put food on the table. NOW I work part time and have to get them. NOBODY should say a word without knowing what the persons situation is.
this is why you should never judge somebody without actually knowing them. i was on food stamps a year ago when i was 19 because my father disowned me and i was only working part time at the time and had several bills a month. to have even just the $130 i had a month for groceries saved my ass. i was certainly not lazy, i worked harder than 90% of 19 year olds and i would be outraged if somebody called me lazy because i worked like everybody else.
When I still had my 3 kids at home, I worked as a customer service rep. for a major bank. We got food stamps. Like Steeny G says, it was $16 a month. So what? An awful lot of ppl working full time still qualify.
Word up. I work full time as a supervisor and still cannot provide enough food for my family; my husband is disabled. I am given attitude at the grocery store at least once a month. My boss, even, makes comments about my foodstamps on a regular basis, and I have been very open about our situation, it's no secret that my husband cannot leave the house.
I've been waiting for this story for a long time. I use to work a grocery in a red state wherein the majority of the cashiers would talk shit about the people use food stamps. Sometimes I would explain to them that those people whom use food stamps were paying our salaries, an idea that of which never crossed their minds. Sometimes they would complain that people would buy candy and soda on food stamps to that of which I would argue "Who are you to dictate how people spend they're money?"
That's probably the case - I ran into the issue a lot as a grocery cashier, and it was almost always an issue of the customer picking up an item near a food stamp eligible one. Either way, that does not excuse the manager or cashier's behavior at all.
Well thank you for seeing the whole picture. Not too many people can do what you have done in society. I agree with you 100% because I'm a 44 year old African American male with a Associates degree from ITT Technical institute. I have been trying to find a decent paying job for 4 years. It even has my wife calling me a "bum" because of no jobs here in San Diego. I was unlawfully terminated from my job after 10 years with the company in 2008. I saw the whole system crash right before my eyes.
I was born into a poor family...we never accepted charity from anyone. Not a church, not the government. if we wanted to eat, we found honest work to do. It's called pride and self-reliance. Anyone ever heard of that???
Although she may have been able to respond in a more polite & calm manner, the fact still remains, The clerk falsely told her that her food was not covered by food stamps. I have worked in customer service enough to know that at that point, she had every right to be irate. I would not be happy or nice to that kind of poor customer service either.
The problem with giving money is that the government (who provides it) cannot control what the money is spent on. If it were changed to money and it came out that some used the money to buy drugs, alcohol, gamble, etc... there would be even more outrage.
See, that's where we differ. I'm at that bridge now. Since this is the court of public opinion and not a court of law, I maintain my right to be pissed off until Kroger's does something to prove otherwise. Meanwhile, he suffers not. Like I said, no one even knows who the manager is. Be Well.
I am an RN, who had 3 jobs, when I woke up one day and couldn't move my legs. My Hip joints had died, and disintegrated and I was suddenly Disabled. . . forced onto early SSD, and on food stamps for a year, until my hips were replaced and I could walk again. They gave me food stamps. Big deal. $16.00 a month. Try eating on that for a month. You never know the circumstances of someone using food stamps. Keep your mouths shut. Be grateful for your health, because you never know when you will turn into that person using food stamps.
+Steeny G: You could have gotten hundreds in food bennies if you'd had a baby instead of bad hips. The system is not set up to help the truly needy it's set up to feed and care for the next slave (tax paying) class. Welfare babies either end up in prison if they're male (doing illegal things in order to earn more than what welfare pays or college debt offers) or they become Baby Factories if they're female - trading their flesh and blood for welfare stipends, even when they know that system will ultimately harm their children. I hope you're feeling better, Steeny. Thank goodness for RN's.
steeny g YOU HAVE MY UPMOST RESPECT XOXO
+mj peter what make you think that and what people are you talking about
+mj peter what make you think that and what people are you talking about
what's wrong with people,nobody wants to use food stamps,that kroger bitch is lucky i was not there to witness
I'm a Kroger employee and I personally don't give a rats ass how people pay for their groceries!It's none of my business!
What if they try to pay with pesos? ;)
lol
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u made me laugh thanks i needed that
Aleena Aksoy Thanks for the notice, I started going there not too long ago but if that's what they do to customers after they spend most of their money there then I can go to another store!
Who's watching this right after seeing the recent video of a woman publicly shaming a dad for using food stamps?
+Lolita Cox me and honestly people really need to stay out of others business, and carts. idc what they're buying just as long as they're children are eating.
I watched both and I am so shocked by people in this country now. No one seems to have any sympathy for other human bings. Why is this acceptable? We have freedoms no other countries have and we abuse them and shame people because they need help. WHY???!!!!
+Leelo James because of the other percentage that abuses the system and fucks up everything.
+Leelo James: You're right, Leelo, but sympathy costs too much nowadays. I've noticed that the super rich and the super poor are some of the most uncharitable people you'd ever want to meet. They believe in getting help but giving it, ehh, not so much. Have you ever had a lecture from a welfare mom who shops at Macy's buying name brands, while you do ALL of your shopping at Walmart because nobody's subsidizing your LIFE? Well, I got the lecture about "getting my life together" from a 29 yr old welfare mom w/ 3 kids and no signs of their daddies when I asked to borrow $5 dollars for gas to take her to an appointment with her welfare technician! This was in 1998, mind you. She was floored by the fact that I wasn't going to let her ride for free and somehow I was the problem with society for asking for petro funds but she was the martyred mother-figure who just couldn't catch a break in life... SMH!
In 1998 almost 20 yrs ago?
wish she had said lets change places, give me your kidneys and job and ill give you these food stamps.
+Christonya Watson :D
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That would have been the perfect response!
Yep. You're right.
christonya AMEN
This isn't about food stamps anymore it's about how you treat another human being.
I am an RN who works in HIV supportive housing in NYC. My clients/patients are mentally and physically disabled and some, not all are on SNAP. Most are unable to work, but we have a few who do work part time, and qualify for some SNAP assistance. Most people on dialysis cannot work. The average dialysis session is three days a week for 6 hours straight. The patients are exhausted and tired after a dialysis session. You wouldn't be so quick to judge if it was you needing and waiting for a kidney transplant, and unfortunately most people die before they can receive a transplant.
it's sad that people shoot off their mouths and don't know the whole story
exactly, it is ignorance and selfishness.
Deborah G.M. Yah that must really suck
Deborah G.M. I don't know how anyone would deserve to live like that
Deborah G.M. Thank you, I'm in the same situation but I don't get food stamps. I'm on dialysis so I understand her situation! I'll pray for her family
People need to chill out about food stamps. We spend more money defending South Korea every year than we do on food stamps FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
i hope this person no longer has a job.
I hope the person got a raise and a promotion and ran over a welfare cockroach on the way home.
I worked as a cashier at grocery stores. I can say unequivocally that if I had ever talked to a customer like that, I would've been fired on the spot. How dare this man do this to a customer. Kroger should fire him. Customer service at it's best.
I have food stamps. I have 2 children and a wife. I work and I'm currently enrolled in a university as a senior in cell and molecular biology. I have to pay for rent, car payment, insurance, cell phone bill, electric bill, internet and basic cable (kids want to watch cartoons). It's hard to pay all that with a part-time job and still try and manage graduating with a degree so I don't have to depend on food stamps anymore. The program is abused but it doesn't mean everyone on it is abusing it.
Fr33man1988 Your reliance upon others is astounding, are you also on a student loan? I worked when I was in school, had no cable and walked where I went or rode the bus. I would work then go to school, then work and return to school. I even worked while I attended school, never got a dime from the government. My sympathy card is full, get a job and get off those taxpayer funded food stamps. Haven't you heard because of obama's frivolous spending America is broke. BTW, what is your plan to pay back us taxpayers for all those food stamps we gave you?
Fr33man1988 This is another reason I intensely dislike the socialist programs, people such as you feel you are entitled to my money and have no moral obligation to repay what you have taken from taxpayers like me. A person who attacks someone they don't know is exhibiting a mental problem built upon a feckless mindset. I freely contribute to charities, but find the idea of someone taking something from me as you have with no intention of paying it back highly repugnant. Bless your little heart.
gbuster129 You're not directly paying for shit you moronic idiot. Most of your tax money doesn't even go into programs like food stamps. Christ, you really are an uneducated hick aren't you?
Fr33man1988 Did you learn to communicate by incorporating profanity into your posts in your college classes or from your mama? Your post is indicative you know little about taxes, and nothing about what I pay in taxes. I do not nor never have receive a dime from the government, only paid, and I detest deadbeats such as you who live off my taxes. Your profane attitude and your belief your are entitled to a dime of my tax money suggests you are an obama loving democrat. Bless your little heart.
+gbuster129 They have a job. Learn how to read.
That poor woman, that is so terrible, she did nothing to deserve that
I had a job that I loved. But cancer took all of that away from me. I am now disabled and get food stamps. I would gladly give the stamps up for my job and my health again.
It is funny how people can pay into the system and we can give foreign aid out but complain when an American receives food stamps to eat and live. Stop all foreign aid to other countries and take care of our citizens first.
Exactly! That kills me!!!
yolandairene No one pays into the "system" for welfare or food stamps. Those who don't receive them pay for the deadbeats to get them.
Amen ... God Bless You 🙏 These People are Absolutely Vicious About This Sweet Woman Who Has No Kidneys .... They Place Their Judgement Upon Her And Only God Can Judge Us When the Time Comes And I Sure Wouldn't Want Too Be Them Because These Folks Are The Most UnCompassionate And Mean People With Terrible Things They Are Saying !!! What if The Shoe Was On The Other Foot And It Was Them in This Medical Condition ?? Do You Honestly Think They Would Be Saying These Evil Things Then ... God Bless Them That They Have Wonderful Health and No Issues But Some of Us Don't And We Do The Best We Can ... Shame on All Y'all For Saying Nasty and Evil Things About this Women And God Bless Each and EveryOne of Y'all 🙏
Tammy RollTide Rosa I for one don't hate her because of her kidney problems. I find fault that she wants my tax money to take care of her. This is her and her family's responsibility not mine. People we are $18 trillion in debt, we are broke, we have no money, what part of this don't you understand?
+gbuster129 She can't work. If she doesn't get this extra help. She and her family could go hungry. Until you know what it is like to go hungry you have no right to judge her,or anyone else on foodstamps. You obviously have no compassion for her,and her family which only exposes you for the heartless,selfrighteous individual you are.
See, I wish this would happen to me when I am standing in line in a grocery store.
I would to have a word with that person.
He is lucky I wasnt in line behind you.
omg yes if this happened to me because my mom has food stamps who knows what I would have done maybe kicked his balls grab a water from the coolers and a bag of ice poured it all over him
pink is bae
You wouldnt do shit
I went through this EXACT situation with Kroger except that it was W.I.C. We were having a rough time and we needed help getting our son what he needed. By the way, my son is Autistic and has among many other medical conditions a pronounced gag reflex. So, he will literally eat hardly anything but maybe four or five kinds of food and even then not very much of. So, initially he was able to get formula and some baby food. Then as he got older he was Still on baby food but also drinking Pediasure primarily and eating YoBaby's soy yogurt. The yogurt and Pediasure are VERY expensive and there was no way we could buy that. Like, even if we starved and ate nothing we still couldn't have done it. So W.I.C. was a blessing to us. But every single week. Literally. Without Fail. Not just one of the Kroger cashiers but all but a couple, some of them even managers would scrutinize not only every item in the cart but they would also make me whip out my drivers license and three or four of them at a time would be looking it over, holding it up in the air even and looking it over. They would hold up the line so it made the folks behind me get mad. And as if that wasn't enough they would always call a manager over and they couldn't just call them to the register they would announce it twice. Once in a loud voice and once over the speaker "WIC". So everyone not only behind me in line but everyone in every line and customers walking through the front of the store would turn and look at me and give me looks. It was utterly humiliating and soul crushing. And yes, one cashier would always tell me that if I didn't like it I should get a job like her and everyone else. Never mind that I did have a job. A Full Time every hour of every day with no breaks whatsoever job of taking care of my special needs child. I feel for this woman. I really do know what she had to go through.
+calanthiarose Don't explain yourself... you have no reason to... there's plenty of people out there who will never let go of their hard on for making you feel bad about anything.. just let them play their game.. it's all they know how to do.
Michael Jourdan
More or less, I agree with you. I guess I explain myself because once upon a time I wa s ignorant myself. But I have gotten to a point where I don't care what people think of me or what they think they know about me. I just try to do what I think is right.
When I was little and my deadbeat father didn't wanna pay support, my mom went to nursing school, during which time my grandfather drove her to sign up for food stamps. Once she had her nursing degree, we NEVER needed assistance again. What I learned is that not all single moms on food stamps are low-life idiots. I respect people on assistance because they might be in the same boat. You NEVER know what a stranger is doing with their life.
Did your mom pay back the money she stole from others?
+Willie Gordon well that is a bad thing too. I don't like theft in all its forms
+Nume Moon I am sure your mother is a wonderful person, and according to what you say, she improves everyone's lives around her. It sounds like she was dealt a raw hand and was truly one deserving of help. I cannot, however, abide the advocation for unconstitutional government programs that initiate violence on others to help your mom, no matter how deserving she may be. You just have no right to force others to give you there property for the another's benefit, I am as offended by this disgusting and evil ideology as you are by this perceived slight on your mother who, again, I'm sure is a wonderful person.
Fredrick Kenley Wait, how did my mom's use of government aid lead you to "government programs that initiate violence on others to help your mom." WTF? Huh? What in hell are you on about? And if drugs are involved, seek help. No one's stealing from you. You live in any country, and you'll probably pay taxes. Then leaders divide those taxes, and in most countries a portion of those taxes go into public's most vulnerable citizens because A) we're human and don't have stone hearts, and B) government exists for the people. Do you have the same offenses against things like tax-funded military, national parks, public schools, libraries, and roads? I'm offended by your belligerent affection for stupidity.
(EDIT: History often judges past civilizations by how they treated their sick and their poor. Your way is short sighted. You don't seem to understand the long game of civilization.)
+Nume Moon the government has no money to fund these programs, so by definition they must first take, by force, the money from it's citizens to do so. You sound pretty naive, but don't worry, I have hope for you, people grow more conservative as they age and squire wisdom that conquers their emotion, just give it time.
Would suck if he loses his job and can't qualify for food stamps
Unfortunately by checking the article and its updates listed; that as of Monday Kroger has just transferred the manager to another store.
"Told about the manager's transfer, Nerger said it wasn't "good enough," and suggested he "should have been demoted to cashier so he can learn who is really on food stamps.""
I tend to agree with that, give him a choice, go down to cashier with the attendant loss of pay grade until you reprove your competence, or leave not expecting to use them as a reference.
If we fight amongst ourself we are distracted from the real problem.
thank you
Poor shaming is wrong. Don't judge others. You have not walk a mile in their shoes. A lot of people who works still qualify for food stamps. Shame on the man for judging this sick woman. Mind our own business.
Most of the people that I know who are on food stamps either 1. have a disability of some kind, 2. have to combine food stamps with what minimum wage they make from a part time job, 3. they're a single, stay at home parent raising babies (usually a mother), or 4. they're refused employment for whatever reason.
absolutely right. And have you seen the prices of daycare in this country? Even after school care is often unaffordable.
Yes and most single parents would end up paying atleast half their check for daycare. Take out gas and bills, where do you get food from?
Meanwhile the rest of us pay our own way in life, and don't breed kids we can't afford.
+20carrocks Most of us on assistance with kids do pay and who said kids are always planned. Most of us born are accidents. The ignorance of your words are sickening.
If births are accidents then there are two idiots in the bed. There is convenient, cheap birth control for either men or women...there should be no "accidents" unless you are a mindless animal driven by base instincts. Case closed.
The guy should lose his job. No one should treat a customer that way. She should have said "my food stamps are paying your salary". I know that there are some people who abuse the system, but that doesn't mean everyone who get food stamps abuses it. In the words of Mark Twain " It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt",
This was at our local Kroger in Warner Robins, GA. I remember hearing about this story in 2012. Sad how people can't mind their own business...you never know what others are going through.
This lady is the reason for foodstamps. Not the lazy ass people who don't want to work. He should have kept his damn mouth shut unless he says that to every person that uses foodstamps.
I remember when food stamps were not EBT cards but actual food stamps. One day when I was very clearly young and healthy, l paid for some food with those food stamps. A man in line glared at me, because obviously l was milking the system. I didn't bother telling him l was a home health aide, shopping for a patient with MS. People love to judge.
i used to be a cashier at Kroger in Illinois. I never did this to anyone, and it is very demeaning to people.I am shocked to hear this,and i am so sorry for this woman.This is horrible!!!!!!! Our manager would have fired anyone for this behavior, on the spot. I say picket this Kroger and let everyone know how this person descriminates against EBT.
it's OK guys, when this man retires and his grocery retirement check isn't enough,he himself will be in the gov. assistance line.
To be honest, the blue dyed hair didn't exactly help her case.
it doesn't give him any reason to insult her
+Elley Henderson I didn't say it did. I'm just saying that when you go out looking like the typical "I'm Entitled For Doing Nothing", you have to expect reactions like this.
+Mike Paul i dont understand your comment
+Mike Paul blue hair means I'm Entitled For Doing Nothing ? the fuk r u from lol
+john doe all I'm saying is if you look a certain way, people will instantly assume that you are. Unfortunately, she does look like someone who abuses the system.
Some families that where both parents work still can qualify for food stamps. So everyone on assistance isn't lazy. Me and my husband work full time, and have 6 children, and we receive SNAP. It supplements our food bill, which is a big help, and we still buy food also. So it's no ones place to judge , every person situation is different.
Right it depends on your household. I tried to get WIC while I was on unpaid maternity leave and I didn't qualify because they still based it off my salary and my husband's salary. We only had 4 members in our household and was told we needed at least 6.
People will continue to judge. Going to have to just deal with it.
May I ask a question? Were you and your husband ever financially independent with six children? If not, why did you have children beyond what you could support? Don't get me wrong. I am on food stamps with my two kids. I was financially independent supporting the three of us until I became disabled. I am 49 and have worked since age 13 and bought two homes by myself even prior to having children with my ex. I am curious about your situation. No disrespect.
The manager probably blames people in wheel-chairs for tearing up the non-handicapped accessible curbs as well...
lots of haters in america..... divided we fall.
When I worked for the department of agriculture for the summer I remember a speech I attended spoken by the Secretary of Agriculture. He spoke to us on how the SNAP program benefits millions of people throughout this country. Not only does it help the farmers, but the consumers as well. He was very informative and it made me have a better perspective about people with food stamps. I don't think this woman deserved such disrespect.
WTF some people commenting on here make me sick. These people who don't like others getting help make me want to barf. They must have never lived threw a tough time in their lives.
Well in this case, the woman can't work because she has an illness and her husband doesn't earn a lot, so I understand there why she would use food stamps. But there are some people who use it when they don't even need them, and they're perfectly capable of working. Some people are just lazy. And maybe they were fired from their job so they need food stamps at that time, but a lot of times they continue using them and because of that, they don't see why they need to be working. Same thing with welfare. Food stamps and welfare are meant to help a person while they're figuring out a way to get money again, but some people stop there, and that's what is not acceptable.
Its not that much money you cant live a good life off it. Idc if there are people taking advantage because just knowing it does help some people feed their starving kids is enough. Taking food stamps and welfare away will hurt more people then it would ever help.
@@jackevans6702 What is hard is that a lot of people assume you are taking advantage when you aren't. I'm autistic and learning disabled, and had a few years where I lost jobs until I could work with vocational rehabilitation for job training and to find a good fitting job. In the meantime, I needed food stamps as a 20s something who looks perfectly able-bodied and like I wouldn't struggle at all to be employed, but actually simple jobs like cashiering and food service are off the table for me. Even though its a debit card, some shoppers I could tell noticed it was an EBT card (Minnesota has a standard EBT card that looks the same). I would get nasty looks a few times, one person looked in my bags at what I was buying, and one person commented "well at least you're buying responsible and not just a bunch of junk food on the taxpayers dime".
I work as a cashier and I already see the discomfort in people's face when they tell me they are paying with food stamps...Why judge and make them feel worse...People are such jerks..
I hope he was fired?
Cheers mate, much appreciated
I don't judge people using food stamps who use them wisely. I do however judge people who use Food Stamps irresponsibly, case in point: I had a casual conversation with a woman in a Fry's food store about buying 10 boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts ($10.00ea). She was telling me how people where she worked took turns buying doughnuts for the office (which I'm sure is a lie), anyway. When she pulled out her EBT card to pay for the doughnuts, I was appalled and let her know. We went from casual conversation to her bitching me out and to mind my own business. I told her that money is for her children and family, she replied it still wasn't my business. The cashier then instructed me through eye contact to let it go. By this time everyone was looking at this woman like she was the biggest scum on earth, and I agree with them. If a family needs help buying food, I have no problem with it. However, if said family is buying Lobster, Filet mignon, and caviar at a price tag of $200+ on $300 a month in food stamps, then they obviously have the money to buy the regular foods that working Americans buy and shouldn't need the food stamps.
If they can afford that they should also be reported because they are getting food stamps illegally! I guarantee it! You get food stamps the right way you can only afford cheap generic crap that doesn't last quite the whole month! I know! I'm disabled and get food stamps, a whole $107 a month! And it's not because I make too much money I receive so low, they think that should actually feed a person for a month, I can barely afford to pay my bills and being able to afford a vehicle? Even a junk one? Heck I couldn't even come up with money for the insuarance for one much less be able to buy one! And people that legitimately need them are in the same shape as me! So if you see someone buying fancy foods, driving nice cars, fancy new clothes and their hair done, they are getting them illegally! All the clothes I get are handmedowns, I have not been able to buy clothes or even get a haircut since my doctors forced me to quit work!
Michael Cooksey how could you be sure it was a lie? who would need 10 boxes of donuts at once? If they were for her or her family she would not need to buy that many at once as they would go stale. It's not an unbelievable story, and if her work took turns buying them, it was a choice of either "looking bad" in front of you and the rest of the people at the store, or looking bad in front of the people she has to work with for not buying them when it was her turn. You should be ashamed of yourself, feeling so smug for causing an entire store to look down on someone. Did it make you feel better about yourself? Of course it did, and that is probably why you did it. In my opinion, people like YOU are the scum of the earth. Not everyone has the same opportunities and upbringing in life.
Hollie it could have been another lie too, it could have been one of her kids birthdays and maybe instead of cake or gifts even they wanted donuts for their birthday so she was getting them for her kids birthday but didn't want to admit she was feeding it to her kids thinking she'd get the third degree over that, which she most likely would have, so she just said that thinking it wouldn't make them feel the need to judge someone that's obviously already judging them or wouldn't have even asked to begin with why they were buying them! Nobody knows the truth of what happened or the situation of the woman, and that was just one persons side of the story, and people like to lie to get attention, not saying for sure they are but people like to lie especially on here to get likes and comments or to argue even and people love to embellish! Anyway, my point is the truth could be the woman was only buying one or two donuts and since that's not healthy and tax payers pay for it a busybody felt the need to stick their nose in someone's life they had no business in and asked why she was buying two donuts with food stamps instead of real food and maybe the woman said my coworker or friend always buys them for me every day and she/he didn't have the money today so asked me and I was too embarrassed to say I couldn't afford one donut for them after them buying me dozens over the years so I'm going without dinner tonight for this. For all we know that's how the conversation could've actually went, nobody knows and won't know the truth unless the store had cameras with audio and decided to share it with us
Dorothy, that's very true and a good point. We don't really know what happened in truth. What is funny is people will never be happy about what poor people spend their food stamps on. Some complain that they buy food that they think is "too good" for someone on food stamps, others complain that they buy junk with it.. They get a certain dollar amount per month, how they ration it and what they buy is their own choice.. If they spend $100 on a steak or some donuts then that is just less top ramen that they will be able to purchase.. I think the people complaining about what they buy with their benefits just want something to complain about.
Exactly! But Nobody sees it that way! Instead of attacking the big wigs that are getting millions from taxpayers, for each big wig, they go after the poor instead! It's sad! If people get food stamps legally, which most do but aren't publicized like the ones that do wrong, they can barely scrape by food wise buying the cheapest generic junk, and Still will have to go a few days without! And if they do decide to splurge on even a three dollar per person meal that's two meals they don't get on top of that! I am disabled, barely get enough to pay bills, no luxuries like a vehicle, cable, new clothes, haircuts, nails, going anywhere to do anything, never have since my doctor forced me to stop working and signed me up for disability! A lot of what you think of as necessities become luxuries you kiss good bye! And I only get $107 to feed myself for a whole month! That's just a little over three dollars a day! What healthy food can you get and enough of to survive for three dollars a day? None! $107 with of health food wouldn't be enough to feed one person a week! And yes I know if I'd garden if have food from that, well if I could garden I'd be working! Trust me! I love to work and Nobody in their right mind would choose to live life like this if there was any other choice!
I've been on food stamps when my family left an abusive home. Clerks and store managers would announce it to the entire line of people behind us when we got our food. It makes you feel "less than" when you have people snearing and judging you so that you can survive and have something to eat.
Well, she can obviously afford to color her hair like that...
Lol really?
So what?????
Wow. They picked the wrong person to say that to. That's horrible.
Many people need food stamps to survive. I hate when people are on food stamps and smoke. I know a few. Cigarettes are expensive.......go figure.
Irritates me too
Tobacco usage rate are at the lowest level in U.S. history.
Also, part of the reason why they're so expensive is due to tax hikes. Hikes the government created to appease prohibitionists. Meanwhile, half the country, whether employed or not are overweight. Metabolic related illnesses are far more prevalent.
Some people, particularly in certain areas, simply can't GET the work. This is not theft. This is assistance from the government. And without it, she and millions like her would not be able to feed herself.
lots of comments defending the use of food stamps. Try working in a grocery store for a while then get back to us on how great they are. Food stamps are great for that small percentage who use them sensibly. but most people buy junk food (no its NOT cheaper) or they are filthy, rude people angry because they don't get more for free. I worked for 20 years dealing with them and everyone i know who did likewise also feels they are a joke. Hungry people don't buy pop or chips. Food stamps are for people who would otherwise go hungry. Want a pop? Get a job because when i worked at stores i couldn't afford pop but i still had to pay taxes for the food stamp people who bought it.
News flash - I didn't say ANYTHING about some people needing them or some people who work needing them. I spoke about the majority who use them OBVIOUSLY not needing them. Food stamps are for people who are HUNGRY - I've been hungry. I was on strike while at the store to end employer abuses of new hires - I got nothing from it except no money, right after I was married. I didn't use the little money I had on pop, candy, chips, cake, gum, breath mints, lobster, prime rib, etc. If you think 90% of food stamp people don't have those in their carts then I suggest you talk to someone you know who works at a store. I bought cheap FOOD. Food stamps should only be for cheap FOOD.
I work in a grocery store and most of the people that I've seen use Food Stamps / SNAP / EBT are buying the things that they need. Vegetables, Fruits, Meats, etc. Now sometimes they do get pop or chips or something else that could be considered a snack type of item... but how they spend the money is their decision.
Your taxes go to such a small percentage of people who actually need assistance. Your taxes instead are used for the Military (42 cents per dollar and half of that is spent to fund the current war); Health (such as Medicare); Interest on the National Debt; Anti-Poverty Programs (such as Food Stamps) and I'm going to stop there since this is the issue at hand. Notice how it's not even in the top three.
Also a great deal of people with Food Stamps work jobs, but it's still not enough because the minimum wage is less than the cost of living. For example, I have to use my whole first check for rent and it doesn't even cover the whole amount so I have to rely on what's built up in my account from my second check. Now I use my second check for bills, food, and whatever else I want/need. I have to leave enough to cover the remainder of the rent for next month though... This is despite the fact that I work full time and actually get paid a little more than the current minimum wage.
Then when someone falsely accuses you, we will all stand behind your accuser. Don't convict without proof.
wtf people need to mind their own business i mean how is that effecting you and your situation
You were making a better wage than most on food stamps.
Mouth dropped , an employee telling his customer this and embarrassing her.
you can't live without both kidneys wtf
lmao do you know what Dialysis is ahahahaha? do some research
+tony lebruare you can live with one poorly functioning kidney but not 2
+daryna94 my exact point it usually attacks both kidneys only a matter of time.
How is she not dead I thought Dialysis only helps for a couple years or even months
+Kairasu My father was on dialysis for about 8 years. It eventually destroys your circulatory system.
I work for Kroger and this makes me sick to think that a manager would have the audacity to say that.
She doesn't need food stamps. She needs diet stamps.
+martthesling actually, she needs kidneys and needs 12 hours of dialysis a day. so she needs foodstamps to feed her family. and *you* need to grow up so you can stop embarrassing yourself
nucky thompson I didn't know that 2,000 calories a day required hundreds of dollars a month.
+martthesling dont kidney problems make u fat?still fat peole get to eat too maybe a bigger food budget will let her eat better
+martthesling not if u eat shit all month or only buy expired stuff(like me).2000 calories is unrealistic for most poeple,like the entire male gender for instance :D
Let's see how fat and bloated you would be if your kidneys stopped working. Go read an anatomy and physiology book ,and then reevaluate your comment.
An employee - especially a manager, that would make remarks like that to ANY customer, does not belong in a position that deals with the public.
Here in Atlanta the mínimum pay rate is 7.25 and most Jobs start paying that or 8.25... Who can live with 7 miserable dollars really?! I say this lets not get into others business because times are and can be Hard for people!!!
I wish I were surprised. A few weeks ago, a Kroger manager in my area knocked an elderly man down in the parking lot, while the old man was giving free groceries, collected by his church, to the needy.
It doesn't matter what the clerk knows or doesn't know. There is nobody on food stamps that deserves to be treated that way.
"The largest portion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget consists of food subsidies, not farm subsidies. Food subsidies will cost taxpayers $79 billion in fiscal 2009 and account for about two-thirds of USDA’s budget. The largest food subsidy programs are food stamps; the school breakfast and lunch programs; and the women, infants, and children (WIC) program. The federal government as a whole has about 26 food and nutrition programs operated by six different agencies." GATO Institute
I'm sure there are people who honestly need them, but I've worked in a retail store for 19 years. I see food stamps abused EVERY day. People with cigarettes and beer in their buggy, etc.
People like that guy, needs to stop! They don’t know what others are going through. They need to realize that not everyone is rich and struggles.
Well said.
True, we really know nothing about the manager. this seems to be mostly a competency issue about Kroger in general. The article says that: "She and the Kroger employees went back and forth about this for half an hour when a manager acknowledged [she] was right about the purchase all along." It was then out of frustration that he uttered those words. But it seems like the entire cashier section didn't know what they were doing.
That is right... It does feel bigger, and We can only Guess what happens...
Thank you for all you have done. I have zero resentment towards you or anyone justifiably needing a hand up. I do have serious resentment toward this woman for getting $8.lb ham that wasn't part of her benefits, verbally abusing the cashier and manager for over 30 minutes, getting what she wanted and still couldn't just say "THANK YOU" and leave, but had to continue verbally abusing someone until he lost his cool and said something that upset her.
Bottom line is that it wasn't the Kroger manager's place to ever talk to a customer like that. It's none of his business why she is on food stamps and he should have kept his opinions to himself when he was representing Kroger! All these opinions about people on assistance don't have anything to do with this because when he is being paid to be a manager at Kroger he can't say stuff like that to customers.
right on the money and sadly too true. People just regurgitate the same memes and think somehow they are clever and original in doing so
Look up the whole story she herself told the local GA. television station. Here are the basic facts: She went to Kroger's and wanted to use her Food stamps on $8/lb deli cut Black Forest Ham (about $10 worth). The register refused to accept it as covered. Ms. Cindy Nerger, held up the check out line for 30 minutes to brow-beat the checker. At that point, the manager was called over and he agreed to let her have it - have it, not entitled to it - and she continued to browbeat the manager over it.
As a man who worked for 2 and a half years at a Kroger in Georgia (Warner Robbins is near me), I agree with you.
not willing to work and not able to work are two different matters.
I'm guessing whoever said these things is not angry at someone like her, but for the majority that abuse the system... Poor woman... She didn't deserve those things being said to her...
Employee needs to mind his own business he does not know any one position who is he to judge
kids I knew who were on food stamps- their parents worked. the income I assumed was still under the poverty level and were eventually accepted into the program because all of their cash went to rent and living expenses.
She was so embarrassed by what was said to her in line, and yet she went on t.v. so millions could know she uses food stamps. I am sorry for her health condition, but why isn't her husband able to take care of his family, perhaps he should be the one embarrassed.
Some people don't get paid enough.. Country has issues that go beyond supposed "lazy" people that don't work.. Most of the people using this aid work full time jobs.
this happens everywhere.....
It's not an inconvenience to respect yourself- to (at least) limit your exsposure to the bad things in life.
Foodstamps are really a calculated humiliation. It is like they are telling ordinary people that "real money is not something for you, you can use these instead, because we don't trust you". I have heard of AIRLINE PILOTS who are on foodstamps. And of course, everybody who works at Walmart also needs them... How about paying your people a living wage, America?...
According to an ABC report, Congress Mulls Cuts to Food Stamps Program, May 31, 2011, "More than 44.5 million Americans received SNAP benefits in March, an 11 percent increase from one year ago and nearly 61 percent higher than the same time four years ago." It is an issue that should concern every American citizen.
I am a grocery store manager; a lot of my working crew are on EBT themselves. Usually when a situation like this woman's comes up, it's because a foodstampable item is not in the system correctly (i.e. it's the store's fault, not the customer's). That is, to say the least, piss-poor customer service. Surely, the manager in question is burned out, but that is no excuse to treat anyone this way.
I work at fast food restaraunt and they try to use food stamps. I tell them it doesn't work and they still want to use it.
Slow, low, efficient daily dialysis can last between 6 - 12 hours or done continuously. It's fairly new and cheaper than other kinds of dialysis.
According to the USDA official site, the following can be purchased with food stamps. You can look it up yourself. Households CAN use SNAP benefits to buy:
Foods for the household to eat, such as:
breads and cereals;
fruits and vegetables, meats, fish and poultry; and dairy products.Seeds and food plants for the household.
Households CANNOT use benefits to buy beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco, pet foods, soaps, paper products and household supplies Vitamins and medicines
That slows up the process. They want you to wait in line just so that you will pick up something else that you don't really need.
I was a cashier for walmart and I saw steaks, shrimp and etc. coming thru....and the person was perfectly healthy, then pay for their beer and cigarettes with cash. I cant stand these users! Especially because I went to work, but they cut me off from food stamps because I made to much money, yet could not even pay my rent or put food on the table. NOW I work part time and have to get them. NOBODY should say a word without knowing what the persons situation is.
this is why you should never judge somebody without actually knowing them. i was on food stamps a year ago when i was 19 because my father disowned me and i was only working part time at the time and had several bills a month. to have even just the $130 i had a month for groceries saved my ass. i was certainly not lazy, i worked harder than 90% of 19 year olds and i would be outraged if somebody called me lazy because i worked like everybody else.
When I still had my 3 kids at home, I worked as a customer service rep. for a major bank. We got food stamps. Like Steeny G says, it was $16 a month. So what? An awful lot of ppl working full time still qualify.
We have to become a less judgmental society .It seems that the discrimination has gotten very bad against poor people in the USA mainly.
Word up. I work full time as a supervisor and still cannot provide enough food for my family; my husband is disabled. I am given attitude at the grocery store at least once a month. My boss, even, makes comments about my foodstamps on a regular basis, and I have been very open about our situation, it's no secret that my husband cannot leave the house.
No. We can't understand why someone thinks the principle of judgement is delegated to an imaginary friend.
I've been waiting for this story for a long time. I use to work a grocery in a red state wherein the majority of the cashiers would talk shit about the people use food stamps. Sometimes I would explain to them that those people whom use food stamps were paying our salaries, an idea that of which never crossed their minds. Sometimes they would complain that people would buy candy and soda on food stamps to that of which I would argue "Who are you to dictate how people spend they're money?"
That's probably the case - I ran into the issue a lot as a grocery cashier, and it was almost always an issue of the customer picking up an item near a food stamp eligible one. Either way, that does not excuse the manager or cashier's behavior at all.
The manager needs to be put on the hot seat and fired....
Well thank you for seeing the whole picture. Not too many people can do what you have done in society. I agree with you 100% because I'm a 44 year old African American male with a Associates degree from ITT Technical institute. I have been trying to find a decent paying job for 4 years. It even has my wife calling me a "bum" because of no jobs here in San Diego. I was unlawfully terminated from my job after 10 years with the company in 2008. I saw the whole system crash right before my eyes.
You nailed it.
Wow, the point Ana made in this segment was so eloquent and so true. I want to hear more people being so mindful of the true issues at play.
Reminds me of an old joke.
Cashier: haha you shop at Kmart!
Customer: haha you WORK at Kmart!
Public ridicule of somebody using food stamps is mean.
we dont stop to put ourselves in someone elses shoes..its all about me me me ...this is the largest problem we face today...
I was born into a poor family...we never accepted charity from anyone.
Not a church, not the government. if we wanted to eat, we found honest work to do.
It's called pride and self-reliance. Anyone ever heard of that???
what table are you looking at on the whitehouse site? I could not find one confirming the 1st site's numbers.
Although she may have been able to respond in a more polite & calm manner, the fact still remains, The clerk falsely told her that her food was not covered by food stamps. I have worked in customer service enough to know that at that point, she had every right to be irate. I would not be happy or nice to that kind of poor customer service either.
Don't waste your time with people like that. People like that will never get it.
do you know her situation? No, so why do you feel the need to judge someone else you don't know?
The problem with giving money is that the government (who provides it) cannot control what the money is spent on.
If it were changed to money and it came out that some used the money to buy drugs, alcohol, gamble, etc... there would be even more outrage.
See, that's where we differ. I'm at that bridge now. Since this is the court of public opinion and not a court of law, I maintain my right to be pissed off until Kroger's does something to prove otherwise. Meanwhile, he suffers not. Like I said, no one even knows who the manager is. Be Well.