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As soon as the glitch was fixed, the EBT shoppers just left their full carts blocking aisles and walked out of the store.
WPEC-TV CBS12 News :: News - Top Stories - Walmart shoppers fill carts to overflowing when EBT card system fails
Lynd explained the cards weren't showing limits and they called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let the people use the cards anyway. From 7 to 9 p.m., people were loading up their carts, but when the cards began showing limits again around 9, one woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 and only had .49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn't press charges if she left the food.
Lynd says at 9 p.m., when the cards came back online and it was announced over the loud speaker, people just left their carts full of food in the aisles and left.
Theft of $100 is a felony in many states.
They didn't steal anything. They left it and walked out of the store with nothing.
The people who used those cards did steal. They knew they couldn't buy that much stuff, and they did it anyway. That is theft. Knowingly using a fucked up EBT card is theft by deception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception_(criminal_law)