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Thursday, June 28, 2012

This 65-Year-Old Clerk Was Fired for Refusing to Sell Cigarettes to a Food Stamp Customer

After four years on the job, a New Hampshire woman was fired because she refused to sell cigarettes to a customer who tried to pay with an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card (the debit card equivalent of food stamps), according to the Sentinel Source.

Jackie R. Whiton said that a 20-something-year-old male came into her Big Apple convenience store on May 29 and handed her an EBT card while trying to purchase two packs of cigarettes.

It’s important to note that there are two types of EBT cards: one is for essential grocery items and the other can be used for pretty much anything. The customer had the latter.

Whiton told the customer that EBT cards shouldn’t be used to purchase luxury items such as cigarettes. Of course, the EBT holder didn’t take her refusal lightly and the two “had a little go-around” while the checkout line grew larger.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

She should have been promoted to theft prevention officer!
How can any hard working American soccer mom or blue collar dad not see something is DRASTICALLY wrong with this Governments policies.
Particularly the Obama regimes extreme redistribution of wealth social mandates.
Wake up people!

Anonymous said...

pretty much anything? I had no idea. That's just wonderful. agree totally with 10:53

Anonymous said...

yes, anything. you can even withdrawal it from an atm, and use the cash for whatever else you want that you can't put on a card....

Anonymous said...

Really, come on people..have you not seen them buy from McD'...they use them everywhere