Do You Think That Was An Attempt To Scam Other Customers?

I went to Braum’s store to get some milk. There was a couple with a cart full of groceries getting them scanned by the cashier. Most people don’t buy everything at a little store like that, maybe get milk, ice cream, fruit or some item they need for dinner so they don’t have to go to a larger store and wait in line. The prices on dairy is good but everything is marked more than Walmart or Aldi (nearest grocery stores) have them marked. Their purchases added up to over $90. The man took his card and swiped it a couple of times and it wouldn’t register. Then he asked for a piece of cash register paper and put it over the card and swiped it a few more times. It didn’t register. Then he asked for a plastic bag and put it over the paper and swiped it a few more times. This took a few more minutes while we were waiting in line. They ended up having to remove the purchases from the cash register so I had to go to the other line. I thought it odd to begin with that they were buying so much at a little store plus the time the man took to keep swiping his card. I was thinking maybe he wanted someone to offer some cash to pay for it for them.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@TexChik And the fact that its end of the month and food stamps don’t get added to their cards till the 1st-5th or 10th of the month. There are people who would come to Walmart (when it stayed open 24 hours a day) at about 10-10:30 p.m. the evening before their food stamps got loaded on their card at the stroke of midnight and fill up to their carts and buy a bunch of groceries with EBT cards, a lot of them in fact. Some nights I worked till 11 and they’d be piling in. At the stroke of midnight they’d be at the cash register, get there a few minutes before to unload their full carts.