Unless the groomer has signs in the shop swaying “no cash accepted” or informed the customer in advance of this, they might have a hard time enforcing this rule. And if the client just laid the cash on the counter & walked out with their dog, what could the groomer do about enforcing that no-cash policy? If they called the cops, they would just laugh at him. A court would ask what damages the groomer was asking compensation for.
You may consider it that, but courts don’t. Reaching a mutual agreement is required; that hasn’t happened yet (as Joey P. said).
Now, that I have never seen! Do some places do that in your area?
One grocery store in my area placed the powdered baby formula in an alcove next to the pharmacy, one which was locked up after pharmacy hours with a key the manager could obtain, and they immediately saw a huge drop in their shoplifting. It seemed that only the powdered formula was targeted, because they didn’t do this with the pre-mixed formulas.
Powdered formula is expensive. Twenty of thirty bucks a pop*, so it gets stolen. I don’t know if people are stealing it because it’s expensive and they need it for their kids or if people steal it with the plan of selling it. But in any case, it gets stolen. Here’s the minimum stock requirements for (most of) Minnesota. I assume it’s similar around most of the country, but it’s the first one I saw. A gas station or little mom and pop corner store can probably handle most of that, but many of them, if it were up to them, would prefer to skip the baby formula. Even if theft weren’t an issue, if they didn’t sell it a lot of it, it’s a good chunk of money tied up in inventory and being replaced as it expires.
*Tip: I remember how expensive formula was when my daughter was young, but I don’t think I/we ever bought any. Granted she breastfed for about a year, but we found that every time she was at the pediatrician (or her mother was at an OB/GYN appointment) all we had to do was casually ask the doctor about their opinion on formula and we’d walk out with more samples than we knew what to do with.
In LA county fast food places can take ebt cards because 1 the cash is n the card along with the food stamps and 2 so the homeless can use them to eat
But because I’m on a few county programs I was signed up for a ebt card and selling point was I could use them at most f the burger chains …and they approved me because of how ssa reworked my disability check…I get 192 a month for food
I was under the impression that prepared foods weren’t allowed. Which covers the cheap rotisserie chickens at a lot of grocery stores. Can’t figure out why.
Hot foods aren’t allowed. A rotisserie chicken that’s been cooked and sold from a cooler should be allowed.
My understanding is that they’re trying to stretch the money further. Yes a rotisserie chicken is cheap and can feed small family, but they don’t want you paying a premium for it. You can buy lobster, but you can’t take your family out to Red Lobster with it. You can buy prepared food (ie ready made sandwiches etc), but not from a place where you’re expected to eat there. That could be the difference between getting 5 sandwiches for $15 vs $50 to 5 people to eat in a restaurant type setting.
It’s one of those cases where the lines aren’t prefect but they have to be drawn somewhere. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they don’t.
At my store, on the weekends, we sell hot ham and rolls. If you’re using EBT, you can’t buy hot ham and rolls, however, we can sell you the exact same product for the exact same price, but we’ll use cold ham. I keep meaning to call them and see if we can ignore that. Same food, same price, but more work for everyone involved.
The reason they have to specifically say that junk food and lobster and soda are allowed is because of all the crap SNAP recipients and cashiers take over it. Nearly every time someone buys something like that with their EBT card, the next customer in line throws a little hissy fit. All I can say is that I understand where they’re coming from, but thems the rules.
Hot, prepared food is permitted for a subset of recipients, generally the homeless who have no means to cook food themselves. If you have a place to live it’s presumed you also have some means to cook food.
Hey, i’m not the one who said “anything you can put in your mouth”. I find it outrageous that hot rotisserie chickens cannot be bought with EBT. It just seems so stupid to me. It really annoys me actually. Now I’m pissed off! Thanks!
That’s essentially how it works. It gets pretty arcane, also.
During my stint working overnights at a local gas station, SNAP benefits could be used to purchase a fountain soda… as long as the soda did NOT have a straw inserted. If they put the straw in, it was a no-go.
Prepackaged hot sandwiches could be purchased from the cooler with SNAP, then heated up in our microwaves, but not the other way around.
Basically, that kind of food had to require “extra” work to be eligible for SNAP, but shitty no-value foods like candy are readily accepted. Your example of rotisserie chicken is one that I also used to highlight the stupidity of this- relatively cheap and healthy meals were not allowed, but junk food was.
ETA: I should always read the whole thread (though I never do). Others pretty much covered this ground already!
is it mostly just a case of the guidelines being too simplistic, leading to all of these silly little exceptions and exclusions? I get the whole concept of not being eligible for food being eaten on premises (no going out to restaurants on your bridge card) and the “no hot food” probably just is a “casualty” of that exclusion.
Yes, they try to keep the rules simple and of minimal number. Given that people are involved, the result are all sorts of outliers and rules lawyering.
If you would actually read what I said, I also said “with a few obvious exceptions”. And apparently some not so obvious since I forgot about hot foods. We don’t have hot foods at our store.