I Can't Read, Therefore You Don't Know How To Do Your Job!

[ralerin]

Just thimking about this gets me angry. I'm already angry and burnt out with Aid of Rite to begin with but we have a regular customer that drowns himself in cologne and has a small tattoo on his face. For my intents and purposes I'm going to call him "Dickweed". He has the best timing in the world to make any semi awful day turn extremely shitty after.

Yesterday Dickweed comes up with his usual beer and then puts it on his EBT card. Dickweed doesn't understand the cash back part of the transaction and then proceeds to pull out $150. Dickweed thought that putting "cash back" meant putting the amount he had on the card in total, which was $1.50. So seeing what he was doing, I stopped him.

"I'm sorry, you can't put change for cash back".

Dickweed FLIPS OUT and demands a manager.

(No manager comes. Even though they were down the seasonal aisle right in front of my register, only a raised voice away.)

I tell him that if he only has $1.50. His beer is $1.20. I can't do the .30.

Yell, yell, yell. The attitude that I don't know what I'm talking about, and how dare I. I make him do the card again but hit none for cash back. He snatches the receipt out of my hands and leaves.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I bet Dickweed's middle name is "Numbnuts"...

[Teefies2]

Wait .......... where you are they can use EBT for BEER!!????????????????????

Dang I want to get on that program

[Bright_Star]

How could he use EBT for Beer??? Try that around here & he would have been shown the door...lol.

[Nashida]

I'd like to know the same here. I know around these parts you get laughed at for trying to use EBT for beer.

[Shpepper]

He probably had cash benefits and you can not tell someone how to spend the cash portion of their benefits. You can not use the food side of EBT for beer.

[Ben_Who]

Aw, but half the fun of food stamps is watching the weird ways people try to weasel around their restrictions!

Around here, there is a milk brand that still uses the old-fashioned returnable bottles and still does home delivery. This brand is also sold in supermarkets. The deposit on the bottle is one dollar, and milk is covered via food stamps.

You can guess the drill. Guy reeking of rotting tobacco walks into a supermarket, buys 20 pint bottles of this brand of milk for $2.00 each with his EBT card, and goes to the edge of the parking lot and tips them all out. Then he goes back in, exchanges the bottles for $1 each at the supermarket's recycling center, and uses the money to buy a case of the cheapest beer on the shelf. Yay! Food stamps into Pabst Blue Ribbon and all he had to do was waste two and a half gallons of the most expensive and sought-after milk on the shelf.

How I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of the local Snoop 'n Shop the first day of the month that the state decided to bar the use of food stamps on that product for exactly that reason.

[mikoyan29]

Back in the day, we'd have people buy $0.25 bags of potato chips. They would go to different lines until they got enough change to buy their crappy beer. This was when change for less than $1 would come as change.