She Didn’t Have Enough Money
As it turned out, she only had $19 on her SNAP card! She was disheartened to learn this: it was way less than she expected. She would have to leave the store with just the bare minimum for survival instead of what she wanted to take home for her grandkids.
She sighed and said that now she would have to put all the groceries back and take just a few things for dinner. And that’s when Maria decided to step in.