{"id":27106,"date":"2023-06-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/snap-customer-facts\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:00:00","slug":"snap-customer-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/snap-customer-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do SNAP Customers Shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SNAP customers shop can use their EBT cards to purchase healthy food items from convenience stores, grocery stores, quick service restaurants (in states that operate an RMP), bodegas, and other specialty retailers. What you may not know is SNAP customers can bring in a new revenue stream to your business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learn a few facts about SNAP customers&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/progressivegrocer.com\/save-lot-food-4-less-dollar-general-top-retailers-snap-customers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">SNAP customers are more likely to be loyal to a retailer, as they give a greater share of their grocery budget to one retailer on an average month.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/progressivegrocer.com\/save-lot-food-4-less-dollar-general-top-retailers-snap-customers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">SNAP customers value savings and deals over quality.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\">SNAP customers are a diverse group of consumers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/consumer-trends\/snap-households-represent-24-us-consumer-goods-spend\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">A recent Supermarket News report found \u201c45% have children (compared to 28% of non-SNAP households), 29% have 5+ members in their household, and 37% are Gen Z or Millennial. Compared to non-SNAP households, SNAP households are twice as likely to be Black\/African-American or Hispanic\/Latino.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;\"><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/consumer-trends\/snap-households-represent-24-us-consumer-goods-spend\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">SNAP households are more impacted by economic uncertainty than other households since they are on a limited budget. This makes finding the best value extremely important to them.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/consumer-trends\/snap-households-represent-24-us-consumer-goods-spend\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #fa8d29;\">SNAP customers spend more per unit.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #fa8d29;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/consumer-trends\/snap-households-represent-24-us-consumer-goods-spend\" style=\"color: #fa8d29;\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><\/span>SNAP customers spend more per shopping trip.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goebt.com\/ebt-resources\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">SNAP customers provide a new revenue opportunity for your business, see revenue opportunities in your state with this interactive map.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SNAP recipients rely on their local stores for essential healthy food items. Bringing these customers into your convenience store, grocery store, bodega, or QSR allows you to meet their needs and brings in a new profit stream for your business. To become an EBT retailer, you have to meet the FNS stocking requirements then you can apply to become a SNAP retailer. <strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goebt.com\/snap-retailer-requirements-quiz\/\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">Take our free SNAP retailer quiz to see if you qualify to become a SNAP retailer.<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goebt.com\/ebt-resources\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">You can also check out these free EBT resources from goEBT.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #57575b;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Once you become a SNAP retailer, you will need to get started with an EBT processor so you can accept EBT payments. goEBT offers unlimited EBT processing with state-of-the-art equipment and live representatives.<strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goebt.com\/payment-solutions\/payment-processing-services\/unlimited-ebt-processing-for-usda-snap-retailers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">To learn more about goEBT\u2019s unlimited EBT processing, fill out this form.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9902;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNAP customers shop can use their EBT cards to purchase healthy food items from convenience stores, grocery stores, quick service restaurants (in states that operate an RMP), bodegas, and other specialty retailers. What you may not know is SNAP customers can bring in a new revenue stream to your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":27107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[197,199,202,201,196,200],"class_list":["post-27106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-featured","tag-industry-news-snap-ebt","tag-retailer-trends","tag-retailer-trends-c-stores-convenience-stores","tag-retailer-trends-for-grocers","tag-retailer-trends-for-qsrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}