‘It’s going to impact everyone’: Silicon Valley grocers expect sales hit from assistance cuts

GROCERY STORES ARE BRACING for how federal cuts to food stamps will affect their businesses.

Grocers who accept food assistance payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for the majority of their sales are going to take the greatest hit with the federal passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The massive spending and tax bill cuts $186 billion from SNAP, known as CalFresh in California, over the next decade.