"The cruelty is the point."

Sure, I can’t think of a better use of the USDA other than micromanaging the point-of-sale for thousands of grocery stores.

“You cannot treat SNAP-EBT customers differently from any other customer. Offering discounts or services only to SNAP-eligible customers is a SNAP violation unless you have a SNAP equal treatment waiver.”

Grocery stores should respond with: "With trump refusing to fund SNAP during the shutdown with funds specifically allocated for this purpose, SNAP does not exist right now. Therefore there is no SNAP rule to break because there is no SNAP right now."

I see... The Cheeto in Chief is attempting to invoke crime so he can deploy troops huh?

Just a guess, but tis the first thing that comes to mind. He's about the least Christian person I could imagine. And we soon will be in the Christmas giving season... But only for cronies.

"We've got to let the free market provide the solution."

Free market surprisingly provides a fairly humane solution.

"Not like that!"

Ok, then how about a bunch of items go “unnoticed” or keyed in wrong and written off in the checkout by the cashier, which isn’t really a discount or a service, just some clumsiness. It’s their first day on the job, don’t you know.

The party of small government at work.

Im going to get a lot of flak but I completely see why they would do this. Unfortunately this situation should not even exist but if there is a requirement to treat all customers the same they should enforce it. I will say though that is bullshit considering the app stuff. They should crack down and force them to offer all deals to any customers even anonymous walk in ones.

Always been this way to prevent abuse of the system and customers by grocery stores.

The email referred to SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which prohibits stores from discriminating against SNAP recipients by charging them higher prices or treating them more favorably than other customers by offering them specialized sales or incentives.

The hell they can't, a business can set their own prices, and give discounts to anyone they like. WTF!?!

How you gonna enforce that lol

Is there reasoning behind this, or is it just a fuck poor people?

Do it anyway fuck trump

I guess I'm the designated article-reader today. TL;DR: Businesses need government approval to process EBT payments for the SNAP program. The regime is strictly interpreting a regulation that's intended to prevent price-gouging SNAP recipients to inflict maximum cruelty by preventing discounts instead. It could enforce the rule by revoking a store's SNAP-EBT approval.

Who is going to know? What a weird fucking statement to make in the first place. It's like your president wants you all to suffer while he laughs from his palace and eats cake?! Weird, eh?

Restaurants are doing it. There's one in Dallas that's giving free kids meals when you show your card.

The cruelty is the point with demons.

Don't understand if they can give discounts to veterans they can give a discount to people who have a card for snap. Just frame it as a discount on total bill not a per item discount. Fuck the USDA.

The law exists to prevent stores from charging extra to snap beneficiaries. This is a clear bad faith use.

"Free market"

Sometimes you gotta give yourself the discount. The five finger discount.

Is it against the law for grocers to give discounts to poor shoppers?

I hope this makes them open their eyes. I'm sure Obama will still be blamed some how.

Hmmm depending on the precedent here the Trump admin might accidentally doing something good.

Major Grocery Chain Uses ‘Dynamic Pricing’ to Adjust Prices Based on Income

Based on what they seem to be saying this could be a blow to surveillance capitalism attempt to nickel and dime. For sure those systems wouldn't lower the price. Still this admin isn't looking out for anyone but themselves.

But they can give discounts to everyone. Just can't discriminate, it seems.