I'd like a minute to talk about food .. in light of the Blue Apron thread

[nadine_mn]

37. Cashiers love SNAP cards, hated WIC and food stamps

because we had to ring in things separately, get approval, make sure to separate tax from non tax, have to explain why some things were covered and others weren't, that the WIC check only covered 18oz boxes not 16.5 etc etc.

Meanwhile, lines would form and assholes would grumble. Very few fellow cashiers ever judged or blamed the customer using the benefit (we all knew that one parent who sent their kid in to buy 10 cent candy, and later would buy cigs or beer with all change and knew that was the one who made it suck for everyone else). Naw, we would all be pissed at the ridiculous red tape to buy formula or peanut butter, or having to mess with dividing up the items. We could see how uncomfortable it made the customer, so we tried to be as fast as we could, to minimize the embarrassment. But always some nosy asshole in line would have to sigh dramatically and cause a scene.

Those were the customers whose bread got smushed and eggs jostled when we packed up the groceries.