> People buy soda and milk with returnable bottles, walk outside, pour it out, return the bottles for cash, and buy a beer. This happens consistently at grocery

> People buy soda and milk with returnable bottles, walk outside, pour it out, return the bottles for cash, and buy a beer. This happens consistently at grocery stores. No it doesn't, poor people aren't stupid; there's far simpler ways to convert food stamps to cash and poor people know them all and they certainly don't waste them like this. It's much simpler to buy groceries for someone else and take their cash for a dollar for dollar exchange. I grew up poor, everyone I knew was on government assistance and they certainly did not and would not waste possible cash by dumping it out to get a few cents off a bottle.