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Slammed for Using Food Stamps: Ga. Woman Seeks Apology

By Alice Gomstyn | ABC News – 8 hours ago



  • ABC News - Slammed for Using Food Stamps: Ga. Woman Seeks Apology (ABC News)









Is a $15 gift card enough to compensate for public humiliation at your local grocery store? According to one Georgia woman, the answer is absolutely not.
Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to feed her family, said she was brought to tears after being embarrassed by a manager at a Kroger store in Warner Robbins, Ga.
"He said, 'Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps like you,'" Nerger said the manager told her.
The man's comment came after Nerger and two other store employees disagreed over whether her total purchase was eligible for food stamps - the employees had insisted that roughly $10 of her bill was not covered. She said the manager ultimately told the employees to "just give it to her."
After Nerger then stressed that she had been right all along, the man made his "working for a living" remark, she said.
"I turned around and realized how many people heard him and how many saw that happened and I was so embarrassed… I started crying," she said.
In a statement to ABCNews.com, a Kroger spokesman said, "We deeply regret our customer's experience. The comments made were not reflective of our company's policy. We value all of our customers. Please know that we have taken immediate steps to make sure something like this never happens again."
WATCH: Customers React When They See a Woman Heckled for Running Out of Food Stamps in a "What Would You Do?" Scenario
The spokesman did not reply to a follow-up message asking for more information, but a local Georgia television station reported that Kroger had transferred the manager at the center of the controversy to another store.
Nerger said the reason she and her family - she is married with a daughter - must rely on food stamps is because her husband's carpentry business isn't profitable enough to support the family.
Meanwhile, Nerger must devote 12 hours every night to a dialysis treatment to combat her kidney disease, which she's struggled with since the age of 11. She's been on a kidney transplant list for five years and hopes that someday, after a successful transplant, she can become a working member of society. She would like to attend college to major in child psychology.
"There's just so much stigmatism put on people on food stamps. They're just some losers who don't want to work. That isn't the case in every situation," she said.
Nerger's account of her run-in with a Kroger manager went viral after she posted it to her Facebook page, prompting friends to encourage her to post a message to a local television station. The station ended up contacting her and doing a story.
Kroger, meanwhile, responded to a complaint Nerger passed on through the store's national customer service line by apologizing and offering her a $15 gift card. Nerger said she rejected the offer because she doesn't plan on shopping at Kroger again.
What she wants, she said, is an apology directly from the manager, whom she also believes should be demoted from his job and trained how to treat customers properly.
She stopped short of saying the man should lose his job.
"I didn't want anybody to be in the food stamp line with me," she said.
 

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This story has to be a fake. I need to check snoops. I keep hearing that only illegals and blacks are on welfare.

All kidding aside Managers can be dicks when they have to deal with food stamps. I remember back in the day when I was working at Thrifty Drug Stores some lady was buying a few items canned and packaged food included and I was the cashier and she asked me if we take food stamps and I didn't know because we were a drug store after all. So I called my Store Manager over and by the time he came over my line got pretty backed up. He was all a dick and loud about it and kinda laughed in the chicks face and was like we don't take no food stamps. She was obviously embarrassed as she tried to tuck the food stamps back in her purse and pull out some cash. I kinda felt sorry for her and her kids.
 

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If i was in line behind her i would of put the manager in his place. I have young daughter and to embarrass her like that woukd of really pissed me off.
 

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I think what most people don't realize is that 95% of your welfare collectors are single parents. Since we all know it is nearly impossible for a man to be awarded custody of his child it is mainly single moms who are on welfare and the father is no where to be found. Usually women who find themselves in a situation where they get pregnant and have no finances weren't exactly destined to set the world on fire in the first place. If these women are lucky they get a nice waitressing job but most of them were on a path to carve a career out of a Walmart cashier job or shift supervisor at some shitty fast food joint.

I have no problem with the programs set up for these mothers that qualify for them. If only just for the kids. I would rather these kids not starve and have to live motel to motel at a weekly rate and grow up with little to no hope to crawl themselves out of their upbringings. Sure statistics say you most likely will adapt to your habitat and not break the trend. I would just hate to see just how worse off these children could have it if the government didn't step in and provide assistance. At least allow the children to have a fighting chance.
 

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Kidney disease since the age of 11. So naturally, because she can't work (which is really too bad), she has a kid and spends 12 hours a night getting dialysis treatment. Manager is a dick, and I feel bad for her kid only.
 

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I wonder what she was trying to buy? Manager shouldn't have done that, but the items being purchased could be the reason. No reason to act like that tho. Maybe she will get a tv deal to tell her story. Kroger sucks anyways. Go to whole foods or publix.
 

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What's wrong with you guys, the bitch is getting free food month after month, she can afford to put up with a few insults.

I know when i go to aldi to buy my pathetic $20 worth of food, there's always a slew of fuckin muslims buying a cart full with their ebt cards(and they bitch about the 2 or $3 worth of shit that doesn't qualify too), makes me sick to my stomach.
 

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someone needs to beat her husbands ass.

he married someone that has a major disease and no hopes of ever supporting herself, then he knocks her up and they have a kid.

then when she gets hassled at the store for trying to buy items not covered by food stamps, he is no where to be found.

TV station shows up and where is he hiding?

she might as well be a single mother, she is really raising 2 kids (her daughter and husband) on the government dime.

maybe that's why he married her to get part of that sweet SSI check.
 

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The manager has to act in a professional manner and deal with any situations properly, or risk losing his job. He can think whatever he wants to himself, but embarrasing a customer publically won't fly....unless he owns the company....even then a lawsuit is possible.
 

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I have to admit I can get a little pissed watching a seemingly healthy adult go through the grocery line and pay with their food stamp voucher card. Just goes to show you never know the whole story. WOW
 

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I wonder if food stamps are still even acceptable - I guess Mitt will be cracking down on this. I wonder if cal-Neva drink tokes are worth more?
 

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someone needs to beat her husbands ass.

he married someone that has a major disease and no hopes of ever supporting herself, then he knocks her up and they have a kid.

then when she gets hassled at the store for trying to buy items not covered by food stamps, he is no where to be found.

TV station shows up and where is he hiding?

she might as well be a single mother, she is really raising 2 kids (her daughter and husband) on the government dime.

maybe that's why he married her to get part of that sweet SSI check.

the entitlement system creates a matriarchy, full of idiot women ready and willing for a sperm donor

shes just as much to blame for getting a sperm donor whos a low life as he is for knocking her up..
 

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the entitlement system creates a matriarchy, full of idiot women ready and willing for a sperm donor

shes just as much to blame for getting a sperm donor whos a low life as he is for knocking her up..

I don't know about this. Not everyone is blessed enough to end up with 10's who are wealthy and also your soulmate. Sometimes you have to work with the hand that you were dealt with. Some people would rather sacrifice their fairy tale story just for a little bit of companionship. Here is a lady with a kidney ailment that will require her to get dialysis every night. Should she allow her condition to prevent her from giving birth to a child and being a mother? Not many Rhodes Scholars and law graduates are willing to dedicate their life to a woman needing that much attention. So her pool of available men may come from recently paroled criminals or recovering addicts or someone who just might as well be slow learning and is only mentally capable of obtaining a job that can't support himself let alone a family of three. Who are we to stand on a soapbox and judge. As long as this dude stands by his wife and doesn't mistreat the child I say let them live their lives and be happy.
 

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I've responded on several 911 calls for EMS when we arrived - in the hood - we'd find a teenage girl (I've been to as young as 13 years old), 9 months pregnant, no father/baby-daddy to be found, living in US Government subsidized housing, and she would say, "I'm gonna get me a check!" This is no bullshit. This is real life. Many/most in this community are bred to think this way. It's just a way of life, living. As soon as they are old enough, they breed....so they can "get me a check!"

Nevermind the abuse of the 911 system.....

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What was she trying to buy that got declined?
 

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Too many people on the system.Time to revamp it with thumb prints.Welfare people should not be able to vote!ONLY TAX PAYERS! I went to deliver free computers too 1 house 1 for each kid. 5 all together! Yea 5,on 1 wall they have a 70 inch T V with x-box. On the other 54 inch with playstation 3.They have 2 scooters that thy move around in.6 kids.Every person in that house is OBESE!!!Time to get a damm job.There are more programs than you can imagine.Its time to get rid of the politicins that want these programs!NO foriegners should be able to go on the system only tax paying americans.I see more shit than anyone on this site because i deliver to these F* freeloaders. Wake the hell up america!!!
 

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Too many people on the system.Time to revamp it with thumb prints.Welfare people should not be able to vote!ONLY TAX PAYERS! I went to deliver free computers too 1 house 1 for each kid. 5 all together! Yea 5,on 1 wall they have a 70 inch T V with x-box. On the other 54 inch with playstation 3.They have 2 scooters that thy move around in.6 kids.Every person in that house is OBESE!!!Time to get a damm job.There are more programs than you can imagine.Its time to get rid of the politicins that want these programs!NO foriegners should be able to go on the system only tax paying americans.I see more shit than anyone on this site because i deliver to these F* freeloaders. Wake the hell up america!!!



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