A Walmart Shopping Frenzy After Food Stamp Cards Malfunction :mjpls:

[Julius Skrrvin]

http://nation.time.com/2013/10/14/a-walmart-shopping-frenzy-after-food-stamp-cards-malfunction/

A technical glitch that eliminated spending limits on the debit cards used for food stamps set off a bizarre shopping frenzy at Walmart stores in Louisiana on Saturday night, local CBS affiliate KSLA reports.


Customers cleared shelves and police were called in to control crowds taking advantage of suddenly unlimited spending allowed on their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, which are issued to recipients of government food stamps. Spending limits on the cards were reportedly disabled for about two hours.


When a store in Springhill, La., announced over the loudspeaker that the glitch was fixed, shoppers simply abandoned loaded carts, according to Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd.

Lynd said Walmart’s corporate headquarters told the store to continue selling to EBT card holders despite the glitch. A spokesman for Walmart later told KSLA that the company continued selling to shoppers “so that they could get food for their families.”

Xerox, which runs parts of the EBT system, said a power outage during a routine maintenance test caused the glitch.

 

[thekingsmen]

This will happen on a grand scale folks....get ready.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

thats fukking crazy

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

The glitch lasted for several hours actually. Wal-Mart should pay any and all penalties for their greed. Glad they got hit up like that.

 

[88m3]

shrug

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Imagine the madness that would ensue if these cards would be cut off with no warning.

 

[Brown_Pride]

that's some depressing shyt on a human level.
You're already getting FREE FOOD and you can't help but act like a fukin common thief. honestly stories like this make me really question this program. Where it not for the fact that I know kids would starve i'd be all for doing away with it.

I still say there needs to be limits on what they can buy and NO i don't care if they buy steaks, id' rather they buy a box of T-Bones instead of cases and cases of soda and chips.

Fukin greedy b*stards.

 

[Family Man]

I'm scared to watch that video. Is it a bunch of black people?

 

[Robbie3000]

I'm scared to watch that video. Is it a bunch of black people?

Me too

 

[Crakface]

White trash always trying to get free shyt and steal. I aint mad at um

 

[Chris.B]

that's some depressing shyt on a human level.
You're already getting FREE FOOD and you can't help but act like a fukin common thief. honestly stories like this make me really question this program. Where it not for the fact that I know kids would starve i'd be all for doing away with it.

I still say there needs to be limits on what they can buy and NO i don't care if they buy steaks, id' rather they buy a box of T-Bones instead of cases and cases of soda and chips.

Fukin greedy b*stards.

I put the blame on every single mother in America.

 

[Kritic]

this shuts reminds me of the Katrina floods where they show black ppl "looting" but white ppl "fending for food". Absolutely disgusting the way the media spins it.

my niccas don't worry about the stupid ass media... they'll always hate. same thing was probably going on at the white walmart. Eat

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

This will happen on a grand scale folks....get ready.

My neighbor is a hood nikka from East Atlanta and we were high and he brought something that this up.

He was saying how w/ the gov. shutdown and people not working/getting paid that shyt is gonna get crazy around Thanksgiving. He said nikkas are gonna be killin for turkeys and if not then shyt's gonna hit the fan when all these ppl w/ kids but no money are gonna play survival of the fittest to play Santa.

Does he have a point or is he one of them nikkas who "goes there" when high? (conspiracy, etc)

 

[pickles]

You nikkas really tripping over this? The government loses millions upon millions of dollars on the regular. shyt they can't account for.