EBT Gone Wild!!!

[nangiggles]

Plunkey is gonna love this

Louisiana Walmart shelves left empty after a food stamp glitch gives shoppers UNLIMITED funds for two hours | Mail Online

Shopping chaos ensues in Louisiana Walmart stores after EBT cards stop showing credit limits  - NY Daily News

I would like to point out not all of them were fucking shit heads
Not all EBT card users joined in on "limitless" Walmart shopping - FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports

 

[shirlene29]

what are they thinking? its not like the government won't hunt them all down

The VA occasionally has astounding glitches and sends more money than they're supposed to..takes about three months but they ALWAYS catch up with it

 

[nangiggles]

it's undetermined who will foot the bill, if Xerox, Walmart or Dept of Children and families/taxpayers

Lot of Walmart stores lost revenue due to the food spoiling in the abandoned carts after the glitch was fixed, their own damn fault for not enforcing the limit.

 

[redsamurai]

xerox apparently had pretty clear instructions for what to do in the event of an outage which they did tell the retailers about. It's on those companies then what they allowed people to buy over the cards limit. The optics don't look good for a company that pulls in 500B to not cover what probably amounts to a few hundred thousand over a couple stores.

 

[SpyWizard]

that's a good point... why is it that walmart is the only store that accepts ebt?? or so it seems..

 

[mrplunkey]

I'm speechless about the situation. It's a terrible idea implemented in a terrible way that is being terribly abused. The only loser here are people who actually work and pay taxes.

 

[EF Shanna]

it's undetermined who will foot the bill, if Xerox, Walmart or Dept of Children and families/taxpayers

Lot of Walmart stores lost revenue due to the food spoiling in the abandoned carts after the glitch was fixed, their own damn fault for not enforcing the limit.

Xerox should pay for the money lost as they are the ones that handle it, like a merchant or whatever.

 

[mrplunkey]

I do like Walmart though. It helps people with less money stretch their dollars farther. It also puts pressure on other retailers to keep the consumer supply chain efficient.

 

[Captain FT]

Am I showing my white upperclass ignorance by saying I have no idea WTF EBT is?

I passed a gas station the other day that said "Now accepting EBT" and I had no idea what that meant, I thought they misspelled or left out letters in debit.

 

[shirlene29]

food stamps, temporary assistance for needy familes and Im sure other shit all go on a credit card looking thing thats an EBT card
thats about all I know about it