My grocery bill is steadily climbing and I am not sure what to do. I make too much for SNAP. Any tips or tricks? It's just me in my household, so would buying in bulk be worth it?

Edit: I want to thank everyone for their responses. I have a lot to think about.

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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (20 children)

I'm an old guy. I usually go to my local grocery store when the kids get out from school for lunch. It gets really crowded in there and everyone is looking at the kids with suspicion while I'm shoving cans of beans and lunchmeat into my haversack.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    So shoplifting?

    Also "old guy", you have kids in school, how old could you be?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    He never said they were his kids. He just uses the local school to provide cover and plausible deniability.

    Also taking food isn't theft or shoplifting.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    He never said they were his kids. He just uses the local school to provide cover and plausible deniability.

    Ah now I get it. 😄

    Also taking food isn't theft or shoplifting.

    Uh, what? What is it then? It ain't legal for sure.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    If you see someone taking food, no you didn't.

    Grow some basic empathy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I don't care if someone takes food.

    I want to know what crime it is if it isn't shoplifting or theft.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    If you want to go by the letter of the extremely immoral laws that govern our society it would be shoplifting. Calling it that allows people with no empathy to pass judgement and kick a victim of their precious system, while they are down.

    It shouldn't be a crime. It should be a crime to starve someone by underpayment of wages.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Why can't both be crimes? There can be two wrongs in this equation. You shouldn't just take things. But you should also be able to afford to live if you have work, and also if you can't work. A society has failed you if you can't. Agreed.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Because one is a crime poor people do against rich people, and the other is a crime rich people do against poor people.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I doubt the owner of "my local grocery store" is a rich person.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    i worked at a chain store,w here the shoplifting was so pervasive the store had to permanently scuttled down, basically we were forbidden to even mention it to anyone til much later, granted its mostly done by tweakers, meth heads crackheads.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    To be perfectly clear, I care not one whit about legality. It was illegal to harbor Jews, Homosexuals, and Neurodivergent people in Germany in 1937-1945. It is currently illegal in places to give people who are waiting, for hours in the hot sun to vote, water bottles. It is illegal in places to give food to people experiencing homelessness. Not one of those laws has a shred of moral backing.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Jeez. I agree, but I wasn't going all that deep. I meant it isn't morally right, of course, and also not legal, so I was wondering what crime it is if not theft or shoplifting?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If he wasn't paid enough during his life to afford food, the morally wrong decision wasn't his.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Not everyone is a victim. Many are, but assuming someone is "morally right" to just take food without paying for it is also passing judgement. They could just be not willing to pay. A kleptomaniac e.g.

    The only thing we can say is that we don't know until we know them and their life.

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