Amazon excepting SNAP???

[Barbara1955]

There are 3 places here to get Free Food. You must had SNAP to get the food. They give you a Punch card & you only have 6 punches for the whole yr. USELESS!!

I looked at Amazon food a few months ago. The Only food is Junk Which you Not allowed to buy on SNAP. So what does Amazon Sell that you Can use SNAP to buy ...not a thing. So I don't understand the point in this at all.....????

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Katie1

There are 3 places here to get Free Food. You must had SNAP to get the food. They give you a Punch card & you only have 6 punches for the whole yr. USELESS!!

I looked at Amazon food a few months ago. The Only food is Junk Which you Not allowed to buy on SNAP. So what does Amazon Sell that you Can use SNAP to buy ...not a thing. So I don't understand the point in this at all.....????

Katie,
You misread the article. They are not accepting SNAP. They are giving SNAP card holders a discount on Prime. If you have SNAP, you can get Prime for $6 plus tax a month. On a month to month basis.

Now next year, Amazon will accept SNAP.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

That sounds like Angel Food Ministries. They have shut down. You paid so much for their box of food and then went to usually a church and picked it up. IIRC: That was once a month and anyone could buy it.

Yes very similar but Angel Food was number packs. We try them twice. This was put on by someone else and anyone could buy from them as well. It was such a poor area they just wanted to help the community.

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[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Katie,
You misread the article. They are not accepting SNAP. They are giving SNAP card holders a discount on Prime. If you have SNAP, you can get Prime for $6 plus tax a month. On a month to month basis.

Now next year, Amazon will accept SNAP.

Now what good is that IF they don't sell Food that SNAP Covers?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Now what good is that IF they don't sell Food that SNAP Covers?

They are hoping you buy home goods like Toilet paper, cleaning supplies and other house goods people buy at Walmart while grocery shopping. Silly isn't it?

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[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Now what good is that IF they don't sell Food that SNAP Covers?

Katie,
I am pretty sure when they can accept SNAP they will have foods you can buy with SNAP.
Let me look at something.
Hey Katie,
You might want to look at the groceries again. I see fruit cups and Manwich and beans.
That was just in the best sellers.
I went to grocery and gourmet foods.
What couldn't you buy with SNAP?

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by Blossom

They are hoping you buy home goods like Toilet paper, cleaning supplies and other house goods people buy at Walmart while grocery shopping. Silly isn't it?

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TP at Walmart 2 ply $6 last me 2 Months! Dollar Tree for TBowl cleaner Dawn for Dishes & Off Brand of those Mr. Clean Magic Erassers Well $1 Each about another $6 last 2 months. None of this can be purchased with SNAP ... what is the point....

Blossom I just don't get it

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Katie,
I am pretty sure when they can accept SNAP they will have foods you can buy with SNAP.
Let me look at something.
Hey Katie,
You might want to look at the groceries again. I see fruit cups and Manwich and beans.
That was just in the best sellers.
I went to grocery and gourmet foods.
What couldn't you buy with SNAP?

Sorry but my SNAP doesn't Stretch far enough for Gourmet Foods!

[barryem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

This is ridiculous. Does Amazon think people who get SNAP can afford Prime even at $6+tax a month!?!

Walmart is a B&M store that has some of the lowest prices on food. People shop there because of that.

All you can get on SNAP is food items and seeds for edible plants. What do they hope to achieve?

I live in a HUD subsidised retirement home and I'm entirely supported by Social Security. It's enough to get me by and leave a little left over so I can save up for gadgets.

I don't get food stamps or SNAP but a number of people here do and they've made presentations here a few times that let me know I'm eligible for it. I don't get it because I don't need it.

I have Prime and pay full price for it. I signed up for Prime shortly after it became available, long before it included videos and books, etc. and was just about free shipping. It's saved me a lot of money.

I don't know enough about SNAP to know if they offer things on Prime that can be bought with SNAP but I'm not sure that's the point. I heard about this yesterday and I told a couple of my neighbors who are in the SNAP program and they're considering it for themselves. I suspect some of the others will be interested as well when they hear about it.

I'm not sure I want to sign up for SNAP just to get a Prime discount but I have to admit that crossed my mind.

All you rich folks have distorted ideas about poverty. It's wonderful.

Barry

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Sorry but my SNAP doesn't Stretch far enough for Gourmet Foods!

I know. The cost of food is getting ridiculous. We shop at Save a Lot for meat they have a deal that is 5 packs for $20. We get our sides when local stores have the buy 10 for $1 each. You never have to buy 10 to get the price. In order to survive you have to shop the sales.

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[barryem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Those on SNAP qualify for a dumb phone with 200 to 300 minutes free a month depending which carrier you go with. However it's just phone/texting no internet. The phones are cheap little things.

Safelink provides my phone service, paid for by Medicare. Or Social Security, I forget which. For a long time that was a cheap folding phone, as you say, but about 2 years ago they began a bring your own phone plan, which does include data. I had a Nexus 5 so I signed up. I've recently replaced that with a Samsung Galaxy S5. The Nexus is a better phone but I needed better battery life.

Anyway I get 350 minutes a month, or some such. While I had the flip phone that rolled over and I've accumulated several thousand minutes. I don't bother anymore to keep track of that. Last time I looked there were over 8,000 minutes. I think I lost about half of those when I switched plans.

Now with the current plan there's no roll-over but I still have all my old rolled over minutes and since I never use my monthly minutes up I've never eaten into them. I have no idea how many texts I get a month but I've never sent or received more than 15 or 20 so it's not a concern. Last time I looked I've accumulated 5gb data although I'm not quite sure how. That keeps increasing so maybe data does roll over still. I have Wifi at home so most of the time I don't care.

I make full use of my phone, sometimes as a GPS and sometimes to check email when I'm away from Wifi or to look up news stories, etc. It cost me the price of the phone and that's all. And any phone that's AT&T compatible and unlocked will work. I think they also have Verizon support if I used my Verizon Moto E2, although I've never used that as a phone. I bought it on sale new from Amazon for, I think, about $35.

Barry

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Katie1

TP at Walmart 2 ply $6 last me 2 Months! Dollar Tree for TBowl cleaner Dawn for Dishes & Off Brand of those Mr. Clean Magic Erassers Well $1 Each about another $6 last 2 months. None of this can be purchased with SNAP ... what is the point....

Blossom I just don't get it

I don't get it either other than greed. Prime isn't worth it now Amazon raised their prices on home goods. I don't need it. I use my library for free books and rewards programs for books I must buy which isn't very many these days. I can get paperbacks for a quarter at my library.


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[barryem]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

No, internet is not cheap, but if need be I could get rid of the tv. My internet is $50 a month.

I have internet from Windstream and it costs me about $65 a month, as I recall. I have their higher speed plan.

I don't own a TV and haven't for over a decade. In fact for most of my life I haven't owned a TV. I have Netflix. I have Amazon Prime Videos. I have Youtube. When would I ever had time to watch TV?

All but one of my neighbors does own TV and we're in a rural area with no cable network available so that means either DISH or Direct. Most of my neighbors are paying considerably more for their satellite TV than I am for my internet and Netflix and Prime combined. And most make a lot less in Social Security than I do. Some make a lot less than half what I make and still have satellite TV. And a couple of them rent their TV sets at outrageous prices.

A lot of people don't realize just how expensive poverty can be.

Barry

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Sorry but my SNAP doesn't Stretch far enough for Gourmet Foods!

Dole Fruit cups are gourmet food?
Goya is gourmet?
Manwich??

I said Grocery and Gourmet foods.

[Barbara1955]

I can get 3# of Chicken Breast at Walmart for $6 Yet Amazon wants $6 Per Pound! eeeekkk