Grocery Stores

[Butterscotch]

My family has been on food stamps before, and I can tell you that, while most don't, some cashiers take their judgments a little too far. I have seen a cashier give my mom a dirty look for buying a pack of hot dogs with food stamps (along with an assload of fruit). Yes. God forbid us from having a nice little family get-together out by the grill for the first time in five years, just because someone wants to make assumptions.

I didn't know that you could buy junk food with food stamps in other states, though. o_O Here in Oklahoma, food stamps do not cover things like chips, cookies, candy, and soda. Fair policy, if you ask me.

My family has been on food stamps too before, so I try not to judge. But its hard when you see people come in every week buying nothing but junk. I like that law you have in Oklahoma...I wish we had one in New Jersey.

[jupiter23]

While it might be very unfair and unreasonable to use government money to load up on junk food, you just can't stop people from eating things that are not healthy for them. If the government did try and put that sort of control on food stamps, then they would just be accused of trying to run people's lives for them. So something has to give there.

[Tiff]

My family has been on food stamps before, and I can tell you that, while most don't, some cashiers take their judgments a little too far. I have seen a cashier give my mom a dirty look for buying a pack of hot dogs with food stamps (along with an assload of fruit). Yes. God forbid us from having a nice little family get-together out by the grill for the first time in five years, just because someone wants to make assumptions.

I didn't know that you could buy junk food with food stamps in other states, though. o_O Here in Oklahoma, food stamps do not cover things like chips, cookies, candy, and soda. Fair policy, if you ask me.

See, I see absolutely nothing wrong with buying hot dogs and fruit with food stamps. Hot Dogs are a meal. My boyfriend and I eat hot dogs at least once a week, because they're cheap and they taste good. It's when they buy nothing but chips, soda, and candy that irks me. Or when they come into the candy store, and try to use them. Go to a fucking grocery store, idiot. -_-

[Slrjoecool]

I see that Winn-Dixie is closing quite a few (35%) of it's stores because they filed for Chapter 11 Bankrupcy.

For a list of the stores that are closing, follow this link.

For the story, follow this link.

[jupiter23]

Wow, one of the stores in the town next to the town I live in is closing. And that one has been up for a long time, too.

[Tempest]

o_o Nooo! Not my Winn-Dixie! The close one and the fall back are both going. My parents shop at the local one all the time. X_x I love Check brand sodas.

[Luna1986]

yeah, Winn-Dixie sucks. Go to Publix, its where shopping is a friggin' pleasure, can't beat that. Besides that makes my stock go up. .

Wow, there was a lot of bent up anger about food stamps and low income families in the first part of this thread. Yowzer!

I have noticed to that Winn-Dixie seems to have sub-par products. One time I went to get some boxes with my brother's fiance from there and the smell of rotting meat was gagging even the rats. The stores I have dealt with have dirty floors and shelves and are never socked well. Publix, on the other hand is usually clean and has a much better atmosphere and no rotting meat!

[Tiff]

Wow, there was a lot of bent up anger about food stamps and low income families in the first part of this thread. Yowzer!

No, there was a lot of bent-up anger about the ABUSE of food stamps, and the low-income families who deliberately behave like animals with no civility.

[Tempest]

yeah, Winn-Dixie sucks. Go to Publix, its where shopping is a friggin' pleasure, can't beat that. Besides that makes my stock go up. :).

I have noticed to that Winn-Dixie seems to have sub-par products. One time I went to get some boxes with my brother's fiance from there and the smell of rotting meat was gagging even the rats. The stores I have dealt with have dirty floors and shelves and are never socked well. Publix, on the other hand is usually clean and has a much better atmosphere and no rotting meat!

Your local Winn-Dixie may have been bad, but the ones closest to me are fine, reputable stores. The produce, deli and meat sections have a wide selection and carry a fresh stock. The stores are clean, well managed and the staff are very polite. I've never bought a expired or bad product and, as formentioned, I love their off-brand sodas. I may be the minority on this, but I'm really going to miss my Winn-Dixies.

I heard recently that Bi-Lo bought the closest Winn Dixie to me. :/ That's good, I guess. At least people won't loose their jobs. I'll miss the Winn-Dixie brand products.

[writergirl]

Heh... have I got some stories for you guys.... I work at Meijer, which is EXACTLY like Super Walmart (cept ours is bigger then then walmart down the road HEHE) We've got service runners to take stuff like perishables like milk, cheese, meat... icecream... that kind of stuff back. There's this one runner who hides in the back of the store in the stock area, NEVER answers pages, andyou have to end up calling a manager to get it taken back.

We're open 24 hours like Walmart is... and we've got Cedar Point right here in Sandusky, so it's like... always packed from 9:30 until about 2 am. So I know about those weirdos. it gets scary.

Cut off time here to buy alcohol is 1 am... if a person comes through the line at 1:01... they can't get it... the computer will not ring it up, there's nothing you can do. You would be surprized at how many people get REALLY pissed that you "won't" ring it up when you physically CAN"T ring it up. I had a guy come through my lane once, at 1:45 with a CRAP LOAD of alcohol. I mean like 5 or 6 bottles of different stuff, cases of beer, smirnoffs.... tons of stuff. I took one look at him, said you can't buy that he asks why not I told him it was well after the cut off time. He siad it's 2 am. I said no it's 1. He sat there arguing with me though I was keeping my cool, he was not about what time it was. COme to find out he's from michigan and the cut off time there is 2 I told him well here in OHio it's one am I'm sorry but I can't sell it to you. he get sso mad he picks up a bottle of vodka and throws it across the lobby, starts calling me every word in the book, which i don't even register, meanwhile the vodka bottle has smashed into the wall shattering. He pushes his cart into the wall and storms off saying and i'm sorry for this but direct quote here "Keep you shit I don't care" I turn and say well if you didn't care you shouldn't have made an idiot of yourself. I do't think he heard me, but he goes down and PUNCHES the theft detectors thank god after midnight we don't have our greeters....

last week one of our utility workers walked off the job because the service coordinator asked him to actually work...

Our shifts are ALWAYS screwy like you'll get these wacked out shifts that start at 8:15 and go until 4:45... which is what I was supposed to work Sunday night... (weirdos....)

We've also got a shoplifter, comes in almost every night between 3 and 4 gets in one of the mobilized wheelchairs we call amigos it's become personal with 3rd shift people. 1st and 2nd shift thinks it's a joke... it ticks us off because we KNOW she steals stuff, but if we don't catch her we can't do anything about it.

There's cahsiers to complain to customers about how much they hate their job....

all this and i've only been there 2 months....