From The Chicago Tribune: Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Xerox Corp blamed each other on Monday after Louisiana food stamp recipients stripped bare the shelves of some Walmart stores when a computer glitch left their debit cards with no limits.
Managers of Walmart stores in the small, north Louisiana towns of Springhill and Mansfield alerted police on Saturday night that throngs of shoppers had flooded into the stores and were buying groceries using electronic benefit cards that contained no credit limits.
EBT cards are debit-type cards issued under the state's food stamp program and coded to show the amount of money available for individuals to spend. Food stamps are a federal government subsidy program for low-income people that is administered by the states.
When word got out Saturday that the EBT cards were showing no limits, card holders rushed to area Walmarts to take advantage.
"Some people had eight or 10 shopping carts full of groceries," Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd said on Monday.
Xerox said on Saturday that its systems that process EBT transactions suffered an outage stemming from routine testing of backup generators that malfunctioned. Louisiana was one of 17 states affected by the outage. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-foodstamps-hoarding-20131014,0,5377514.story
While both Xerox and Wal-Mart acted stupidly, the thugs stealing the groceries are the ones who need to pay. They are nothing but a bunch of greedy, thieving pigs. They knew their benefits but chose to take advantage of a problem. They are soulless thugs and should never receive public assistance ever again. And I'll bet a dollar to donuts, they are Obama supporters.
The ones who stole should be banned from food stamps forever.
The ones who attempted to steal should be banned from stores like Wal-Mart.
And whoever made the decision at Wal-Mart should be fired. But they probably already are.
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