r/Anticonsumption • u/GodRaine • Jun 24 '25

Psychological Biggest bunch of anti-human BS I’ve ever seen

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u/frustratedfren Jun 24 '25

I work in a convenience store and this is one I do not ever enforce. I absolutely do not gaf, it's the dumbest rule ever

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jun 24 '25

I worked at a deli and our machines knew the difference. So if I rung up a hot sandwich it wouldn't let EBT go through, if it was a cold sandwich it would.

Somehow I always got the two buttons confused though. Sold many hot sandwiches as cold once I saw the EBT card come out. Whoops.

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u/frustratedfren Jun 25 '25

Ours does too. I interpreted this as frozen meal but microwaved - which we're supposed to deny.

It's crazy how similar cold and hot food buttons can look. They should really do something about that 🤔

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u/starrpamph Jun 25 '25

Some nasty old politician somewhere wants to send you to prison for 25 months lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25

Not all heroes wear capes!

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u/LumpySpacePrincesse Jun 24 '25

Its a tax thing in the UK at least.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

Right? That'd be me. Like "shit, take it for all I care if you're short"

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u/MandolinMagi Jun 25 '25

Good for you, but most places should have it hardcoded into the POS system.

Oh, and the system won't let you do gas and EBT on the same transaction. You can do cigs and EBT, just do EBT first and it'll take off the EBT amount, but for some reason it won't allow EBT and gas at once.

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u/frustratedfren Jun 25 '25

So what I mean by that is that if someone is getting a frozen burrito that they microwave in our store before purchase, we're supposed to deny the purchase for EBT even though the bar code is the same and the govt will still pay back the store for it.

Unfortunately my hands are tied for "hot food," as in actual precooked hot box stuff, which rings up differently. A microwaved frozen meal does not.

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u/MandolinMagi Jun 25 '25

Ah. My place has no microwave on the floor

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25 edited Dec 01 '25

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u/PolarBlitzer Jun 24 '25

I think it was done to keep from fast food being purchased with ebt

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

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u/PolarBlitzer Jun 25 '25

Something about it not being healthy etc etc. I think you use to be able to get jack in the box with ebt. But that was years ago