When do the calls start coming from Bentonville?
Over the 12-month period ending July 31, Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart captured 25.8% of SNAP shoppers’ grocery dollars. A whopping 94.3% of SNAP recipients said they shopped at Walmart.
In fiscal year 2023, the federal government spent about $115 billion on SNAP, including pandemic-related SNAP benefits (but excluding pandemic-related school meal benefits known as Pandemic-EBT) and other directly related food assistance programs. About $107 billion, or nearly 94 percent of SNAP spending, went directly to benefits that households used to purchase food.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap