{"id":27586,"date":"2018-10-19T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/merchant-question-can-i-sell-energy-drinks\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:28:20","slug":"merchant-question-can-i-sell-energy-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/merchant-question-can-i-sell-energy-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchant Question: &#8220;Can I sell energy drinks?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #bd3632;\"><em><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> \u201cCan I sell energy drinks?\u201d -Ranny Gammo, <em>Peck Market<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #bd3632;\"><em><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> The simple answer to this question is yes, you can sell energy drinks. However, when it comes to selling energy drinks to a SNAP cardholder, there are some specific rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Energy drinks that have a <strong>nutrition facts label<\/strong> ARE eligible to purchase with SNAP benefits<\/li>\n<li>Energy drinks that have a <strong>supplement facts label <\/strong>ARE NOT eligible to purchase with SNAP benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While some store owners assume they can pretty much sell any food or beverage to a customer who is using SNAP to pay for the items, that is actually not true.&nbsp; There are a number of rules that apply to SNAP retailers, not just about what they can and can not sell in a SNAP transaction, but also what they have to sell in their store in order to be eligible to accept SNAP payments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What items are NOT eligible to purchase with SNAP benefits?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Households that receive SNAP benefits can NOT use them to purchase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco<\/li>\n<li>Any nonfood items, such as:\n<ul>\n<li>pet foods<\/li>\n<li>soaps, paper products<\/li>\n<li>household supplies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vitamins and medicines<\/li>\n<li>Food that will be eaten in the store<\/li>\n<li>Hot foods or any food sold to be consumed on the premises<\/li>\n<li>Holiday gift baskets in which the value of non-food items exceeds 50% of the total price<\/li>\n<li>Live animals<\/li>\n<li>Grooming items, cosmetics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What items ARE eligible to purchase with SNAP benefits?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breads and cereals<\/li>\n<li>Fruits and vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Meats, fish, and poultry<\/li>\n<li>Dairy products<\/li>\n<li>Seeds, plants that produce food for the household to eat<\/li>\n<li>Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers<\/li>\n<li>Ice cream<\/li>\n<li>Seafood and steak<\/li>\n<li>Bakery cakes<\/li>\n<li>Pumpkins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What happens if you sell ineligible items in a SNAP transaction?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you sell the wrong items to a customer paying with SNAP benefits, you are committing SNAP fraud and could not only be disqualified as a SNAP retailer, but also be fined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: \u201cCan I sell energy drinks?\u201d -Ranny Gammo, Peck Market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":27587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[219,220,198,209],"class_list":["post-27586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-building-your-business","tag-consumer-trends","tag-goebt-news","tag-snap-ebt-tips-for-retailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586","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=27586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}