Nonfood items ring up as nonfood items.
If a food is 50% groceries I personally would not call it a liquor store.

In any event, any smart drunk could just go buy a lot of grape juice and make their own.

Yeaaah bout that, I'ma need some proof first.
I know I know, trustworthy and all but...

Originally posted by hadriana
Nonfood items ring up as nonfood items.
If a food is 50% groceries I personally would not call it a liquor store.

In any event, any smart drunk could just go buy a lot of grape juice and make their own.

The two liquors stores that I'm speaking about in the OP are purely liquor stores, no food.

On one hand I don't see the problem with acceptance at liquor stores in concept, because not everyone has 50 stores within walking distance. Some people are rather limited and liquor stores often have more than just booze and cigarettes. Uncle Sam just can't help but micromanage the living daylights out of everything.....just make it accepted but actually restrict what is bought with it, universally. Sheesh...

Now I see your OP also does suggest these ARE buying booze and other 'prohibited' list items. That sounds like outright criminal fraud by the stores who don't have their registers or employees stop the transactions AND the card holders doing it. Both sides of that transaction know what the score is...they're both good for criminal charges to my thinking. If people want to find ways to save budget money, starting there sounds like as good a place as any.

Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
On one hand I don't see the problem with acceptance at liquor stores in concept, because not everyone has 50 stores within walking distance. Some people are rather limited and liquor stores often have more than just booze and cigarettes. Uncle Sam just can't help but micromanage the living daylights out of everything.....just make it accepted but actually restrict what is bought with it, universally. Sheesh...

Well don't try to buy diapers.

it is impossible to buy non food items with a quest card,,,unless the teller is ringing booze up like it is a food item. most liquor stores (other than state owned) carry groceries. your friend is ill informed on how food stamps work. Some Quest cards carry cash benefits which is like an ATM card.

Originally posted by beezzer
Instead of food stamps, QUEST or other card names, why not call it Obama-bucks.

Obama invented Quest?

To the OP, is this for purchasing liquor or so people can access their LEAP funds? According to the state, liquor is still a big no no but this would save people an ATM fee for accessing money they need to heat their homes with.

Originally posted by outandopen
it is impossible to buy non food items with a quest card,,,unless the teller is ringing booze up like it is a food item. most liquor stores (other than state owned) carry groceries. your friend is ill informed on how food stamps work. Some Quest cards carry cash benefits which is like an ATM card.

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Well you do know that those cards are not solely for food stamps right?

Its used for money too...


Last time I checked you can use your government pension to buy alcohol...

I'm just saying

Being a person who has used the QUEST card in past, I know for sure that there are food stamp benifits(snap) and cash assistance on the same card... You can use cash assistance for anything, gas, cigarettes, booze, clothes, etc. But the one thing that has always bugged me is that you don't always get both cash and food support. I mean they don't let you buy your other basic needs like, toilet papet, shampoo, dish soap, with food stamps and if thats all you get for assistance how do you get those things... I know I didn't qualify for cash even tho I didn't have a job(not the case anymore), still had to pay rent, find gas money to go job hunting, amongst other things...
Now back on track... If this were to be true and liquor stores accept food stamps, a lot of children will go hungry...

Didn't have time to read through the thread, but just in case nobody told you yet... Quest cards are not just only used for food stamps. They can be used to access two different accounts, one being the food stamps, which are not allowed to be spent on non food items like alcohol or cigarettes or even an energy drink like red bull, or any heated foods already made like the soup, or fried chicken in the deli sections of most grocery stores. Cold items, like potato salad from the deli, or other non cooked items like frozen burritos for example which you then microwave in the store would be fine. An already cooked one sitting on the warmer would not.

In addition to the food stamps accessible from the Quest card, there are also such thing as "cash benefits" available to some recipients. You can take the Quest card to an atm machine and get cash and go buy anything you want. So using it as a debit card in a liquor store is just like any debit transaction. And the system will not allow your food stamp balance to be used for unqualified purchases. So there is no cheating, even if you're cool with the guy at the liquor store... Trust me on this one

Feel free to pm me if you need to know anything else about the quest card, food stamps, or just being poor in general! I'm your man if that's what you need to know about