WIC

Ok, so this is a topic that really gets my goat. It's WIC. WIC is to help people purchase food for their snot-nosed evil and rambunctious spawn. The food on the WIC checks is healthy food, so that parents can help raise children nutritiously. However, there are very strict rules when it comes to using them. Only certain products can be purchased. Take milk for an example, milk is an approved WIC item, as long as it is the cheapest brand. The cheapest brand here, usually refers to store brand. There are many customers that try buying a more expensive brand. When you tell them they have to get the store brand, some get all defensive and say, "Well, I always get this." or, "The other stores let me get it." Well, sorry. NO. Stop lying, you know damn well what you're doing.

Another common item that people fudge up is the cheese. The cheese, I will admit is very confusing. But the people in the WIC office, as far as I know, go over everything that they have to in terms of what can and can't be bought. Now, back to the cheese. Processed American cheese is "bad" for you, so it is not approved. However, other packaged American cheese, is approved. Strange.

Baby formula. Most checks will say, 3 cans of X Y OR 3 cans of X Z (Where X=Brand, and Y&Z= formula type). Some people think that the check is for 6 cans. They read the "OR" as, "AND".

Juice. Only 100% juice is allowed. This means, any frozen juice mix, has to have the yellow ring. It's on there for a reason. So you know that it's not from concentrate. Or, you could just buy JuicyJuice, because, 1, it's 100% juice, and 2, it's damn good.

Cereal. NON-sugar cereals are allowed.. Sorry folks, you can't buy your fledglings CocoaPuffs. They have enough God Damned energy as is. Just because Cheerios is on the check, doesn't mean it's for Fruity Cheerios (and yes, they do have them.) "Oh, hey look, Fruity Cheerios! Cheerios are healthy, so Cheerios with fruit must be even healthier!" Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

I don't know if people know this or not, but if WIC catches wind that people are trying to purcharse the wrong items, that their privileges can be taken away from them. Not only that, but stores that accept WIC, actually lose money on items that are sold that shouldn't be. AND, not only can WIC clients lose their rights, but stores can lose their rights to accept WIC. If that happens, there will be a lot of pissed of customers. But they'll have no one to blame but themselves.

While WIC isn't hard to ring up, it's a lengthy process. If the customer doesn't have their Gold Card, the WIC order can NOT be processed. I don't make the rules. If the check doesn't start for another 2 days, it can not be taken. Same goes for if the check ended 2 days prior.

STOP TRYING TO CHEAT THE SYSTEM!

I know some people actually do need it, and that they actually follow the rules. When you but what you're supposed to, and do as you were instructed, it's fine. But when you fuck us over, you fuck everyone else that is actually honest over too. Also, for the love of all that is holy, stop holding up the lines, people want to get out of the store as quickly as possible.