EBT card glitch prompts unlimited Wal-Mart shopping sprees
lukin2006
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EBT card glitch prompts unlimited Wal-Mart shopping sprees
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What would you do if you had an unlimited amount of the government's money to spend on food? Based on the shoppers who took advantage of a brief glitch on their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, you'd stack a shopping cart with as much stuff as you could physically push to the Wal-Mart cash register. For a few hours on Saturday, Wal-Mart shoppers in Louisiana who checked their EBT balances discovered that their spending limits had totally disappeared, giving them limitless funds for their grocery shopping. Overwhelmed employees called Wal-Mart's headquarters to ask how to handle the situation and, according to CBS News, were told to "keep the registers ringing."
The glitch was apparently triggered by a power outage during EBT infrastructure maintenance; once the situation was corrected, overflowing shopping carts were abandoned in the aisles. "That's stealing," one shopper complained to local station KSLA. "That's all I got to say about it."
http://now.msn.com/ebt-card-glitch-prom ... t_fbmsnnow
What would you do if you had an unlimited amount of the government's money to spend on food? Based on the shoppers who took advantage of a brief glitch on their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, you'd stack a shopping cart with as much stuff as you could physically push to the Wal-Mart cash register. For a few hours on Saturday, Wal-Mart shoppers in Louisiana who checked their EBT balances discovered that their spending limits had totally disappeared, giving them limitless funds for their grocery shopping. Overwhelmed employees called Wal-Mart's headquarters to ask how to handle the situation and, according to CBS News, were told to "keep the registers ringing."
The glitch was apparently triggered by a power outage during EBT infrastructure maintenance; once the situation was corrected, overflowing shopping carts were abandoned in the aisles. "That's stealing," one shopper complained to local station KSLA. "That's all I got to say about it."
I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin
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"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
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they be owning 1,009.74
somebody aint getting benefits for 5 months
& they may be cancelled altogether for flat out knowingly stealing
idiots
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
I'll bet someone a Coke that the produce aisle was the last to be cleaned out. :fp:
no way...I am sure the organic purchases being made is what notified the Xerox mainframe.
It's not the government's money.
Good to know this shit is trackable. Let's hope it's made right.
fuck "owing"
take away their benefits permanently
And I think some sort of penalty should apply here; not sure if permanent revocation is the answer...but maybe it is.
Wal-Mart has a produce aisle?
I wouldn't know either.
This irritates me. Both Wal-Mart and Xerox are to blame for the error and how it was handled...but the SPREE itself?
That shit didn't just walk itself out the door.
It's like those who actually stole have no part at all in this.
I just don't get it.
I wonder how many would villify Wal-Mart had they shut things down when the error first occurred?
Does anyone place responsibility on those who knowingly spent what they didn't have?
2 points:
1) When the cashiers called the corporate office, they could have been responsible and told them to stop accepting EBT until the problem was found and corrected. So Wal Mart DOES hold some blame.
2) Unsung is right, its not the governments money. Its my money, its your money, its taxpayers dollars, again, being wasted and blown on ignorance.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Also agreed on whose money this is/was.
(by the way, lukin - no moral or any other superiority coming from here. I'm efficient and kick ass in my work, don't fuck around online or post 24/7, use my sick time wisely...AND I DON'T STEAL )
i didn't see any anger towards wal mart here ... in fact, most of you guys are railing on the people who abused it ... i was just commenting on that ...
the fact is all kinds of frequent posters on here are not on here when they're home, they be here while at work.
good times, rock & roll
who let the dogs out
ruff
ruff
who let their bells out
yikes
yikes
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
well ... consider this analogy ... an online electronics retailer posts an item for sale and misplaces a decimal point ... let's say a brand new tv for say $100 instead of a $1,000 ... guess what? ... orders will be coming in by the handful and in some instances - the obligation is to the online retailer to honour that allotment ... now, I know that isn't a perfect example ... but look at it from the cardholders perspective ... worst case scenario to them is they give the stuff back ... but if there is a chance they can keep - why wouldn't they? ... this is the world we live in now ... our entire society is governed mostly by who can best exploit loopholes or get a leg up ... it's celebrated in fact ...
so, yeah - you guys may want to consider it theft ... i think for them - it's only theft if they get told that they must return and they don't ... until then ... they are just exploiting something that so many people do on a daily basis ...
what i do know is given the opportunity to nip in the bud ... wal mart chose the same path ...
i find most iowans to be quite honest even to a fault. it's nice, it's lovely. some of us don't want short-cuts.
walmart fucked up & should take full responsibility for their actions; walmart aided thieves & the ignorant
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
He was a lucky klepto.
So simple and true.
guess you guys don't live in iowa ...
As for taking time to post here on work time, I'm sure that must happen. I do it. Not when I'm helping out at my wife's store unless it's a quick peek on break, but when I'm working for my own business- GUILTY! I'm going to have to have a talk with myself although I'm sure I'll hear the same old excuse:
"But I work so hard and I'm getting older and close to retirement age."
"Oh give it a break, brianlux. Hack or pack!"
What I'm saying is, I hope everyone is responsible for themselves that way. It's not for me to pass judgement. Hopefully we're all being productive in our own way.
To me, this is about people who did take advantage of something they knew was wrong - or should've known was wrong. It's not even a loophole in this case.
To give a somewhat imperfect analogy (yo, polaris :P ), when I was a kid, there was a home in our neighborhood with a beautiful front garden...huge birds of paradise, one of my mom's favorites. On a regular basis, when we'd drive by, she'd pull over and cut one or two of them to take home (yes, she kept scissors in the glove compartment for that sole purpose). Every time, I'd protest, tell her that's stealing...and she'd say, "Well, they have so many they won't miss one or two."
But that's not the point! They're simply not yours to take.
Thank god for the compensation my dad's over-ethicalness provided
...I'm not even sure why this has stuck in my craw so much. I guess with all the bad shit that happens, I sometimes expect more of people in some naive, idealistic way.
now go on about your day in your over sized city where nobody gives a hoot about anyone else.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
nice story.
i expect insane amounts of drive, morals & goodness out of society. this is why i am a grouchy old bastard as i am often let down. i expect others to strive as hard as i have. i myself could even pick up the pace but i am tired & i hurt. i could even use the handicap parking slots but i refuse & park like everyone else & hobble my sorry ass into the store.
sure if i find $20 on the ground i am keeping it unless i hear someone announce they just lost a $20
i expect super hero/super human strengths/intelligence out of people; as in never give up & never hurt others. the under dog is me & i will not lose
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
:P
this here walmart is a bullshit store allowing thieves to purchase grub with a shit ton of extra tax payers' dollars that got put on the cards by accident/system failure. keeping the registers ringing up merchandise is a pretty corrupt notion in this situation.
i hope this walmart is penalized. do i hope some are removed from their duties? no, heck no. i hope the walmart chief executive officers, sam walton's family & whomever else in charge rethink, redo & rewrite their belief system on how a store should operate.
these fuckers here just stole $$$ from tax paying citizens.
edit... question... was it multiple walmart stores or just one walmart store?
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Some do