I went into Ralphs to pick up a couple of things and they had merged the personal care, cleaning products and laundry care items into a single like the one pictured above and blocked off the back end and put a door on the front end with a full time cashier stationed there.
I walked into the area to see what all they had in there and the screens like the ones in the picture would beep every time I touched anything alerting the cashier that I had touched something.
Anyways, the cashier told me that the grocery stores are expecting pure pandemonium starting on Friday when SNAP Card users go to use their card for their November benefits. The lady told that the employees are scared including her.
She said that it's human nature for people not to let their kids starve to death and they are expecting for the to be shoplifting rampant.
The lady was livid that the feds are building a $500 million gold ballroom but won't feed people and they are putting employee lives on the line.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that they will turn on the spigot so that people can eat.
Another thing that she reminded of the fact that all grocery stores or any entity that sells food will loose money regardless if no one shoplifts because the grocery stores depend on the people using their SNAP benefits, it's built into their ecosystem. The stores estimates how much food to order and how many employees to have per store, if the SNAP benefits are turn off for a significant amount of time, they will cut store hour and employees and so it ends up being a double edged sword. I hadn't thought of it from that angle.
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