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It Looks Like The Soup Line Is Here To Stay
Freedom Outpost
Most of my working career has been in the food industry, and more specifically, high-end retail food. Think Dean & DeLuca. The customer base has always been educated and financially well-to-do. After a “revelation” in early 2000, I decided that I needed to put my skill set to use in another industry. I found myself working in an office with the masses. Less educated, less well-off and one thing that particularly stands out, no self-respect. How can I possibly respect you when I don’t respect myself? Impossible. YOU don’t stand a chance.
After dealing with this toxic environment for several years, I decided to get back into retail food. Out of the frying pan, into the fire! OMG! The masses are now on both sides of the counter. The impact of 44 million people on food stamps, as of September 2013, is hard to imagine if you are not in retail food.
The spike in business beginning on the 3rd of each month is truly astounding. By the 10th of the month, the business begins to normalize and by the 22nd the ship is sinking. When there is a holiday in the month, e experience a slightly different flow of business. Depending on the nature of the holiday, and when it hits the calendar, the flow of business changes accordingly. There is always the spike from the 3rd through 7th as the pantry has run dry. But when the holiday rolls around, people have saved their position in the soup line in order to “celebrate” the event appropriately. Remember, not only are the working people of this country putting food on the table, we are also funding items like, lottery tickets, cigarettes, alcohol and everything else that is non-food as a lot of people are issued a “cash card” in addition to the ticket for the soup line (EBT card). The state of Connecticut has a handy website that spells everything out, in detail, on how to get cash. Awesome!
Reposted with permission
