Starting next year, users will be able to pay for fresh groceries using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from right within the Uber Eats app.
Starting next year, users will be able to pay for fresh groceries using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from right within the Uber Eats app.
How is this not strictly a good thing? SNAP users will have another option for food access, and while it’s one that is hand to really justify financially in most cases, Uber is not holding a gun to their head and saying “Buy your groceries with us or die”. I’m not going to be so bold as to tell every SNAP user that I know better than they do about how best to get their food. Ultimately, people generally know best for themselves how to meet their own needs, and if someone thinks a delivery is the best use of their resources, who am I to overrule that?
Yes, there will always be some incredibly unwise people who spend their entire allowance Uber Eats’ing Pringles or something, but ultimately, I don’t see the point of having arbitrary restrictions on what people do with their own resources.
Likely because folks who scrimp and are not on foodstamps get angry at folks who get food stamps and don’t scrimp. Ive had the same feeling being at a grocery store and seeing someone with foodstamps buying items that I can’t afford and had been tempted to get. If foodstamps where universal it would likely mostly get rid of this feeling. I mean folks like me would still scrimp to save money for things but since we would be getting the same food allotment it would not feel like we were being looked over for our life needs. That being said it would likely lead to more food stamp selling type of thing although that is great for scimper folks who would let go of cash to get more or better groceries.