{"id":376894,"date":"2025-11-13T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376894\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:19:11","slug":"jacksonville-grocery-store-owner-reports-between-20k-to-25k-weekly-loss-amid-snap-benefits-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376894\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville grocery store owner reports between $20K to $25K weekly loss amid SNAP benefits delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A Jacksonville grocery store owner is hopeful for a quick return to normal business operations following the end of the 43-day government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/12\/city-council-to-consider-bills-that-would-give-thousands-of-dollars-to-local-food-bank-amid-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/12\/city-council-to-consider-bills-that-would-give-thousands-of-dollars-to-local-food-bank-amid-government-shutdown\/\"><b>City council approves sending $200K to local food bank as food insecurity plagues numerous families during shutdown<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">That shutdown left many of his customers without SNAP benefits and severely impacted his store\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sajjad Husain, owner of Premier Meats and Seafood, reports his weekly sales have plummeted by $20,000 to $25,000 since the beginning of the month when SNAP benefits were disrupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cFifty percent of my customers they are dependent on SNAP,\u201d said Husain, whose store typically generates between $40,000 to $50,000 in weekly sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Husain said because of this he had to get a small loan from a family member, reduce employee work hours and increase his own hours to fill in the staffing gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The impact extends beyond the business\u2019s bottom line. Husain said it really hurt him, when he saw some of his regulars who receive snap benefits come in with coins to buy food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s hurtful, people can\u2019t stay hungry for so long and a lot of these customers are elderly, a lot of them are women with multiple children,\u201d Husain said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">And with the government shutdown over Husain hopes people get their benefits soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He also said these past few weeks have taught him a lesson, to put more money away in case hard times come about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">There\u2019s no exact timeline of when SNAP benefits could be released; it could range from days to over a week.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville grocery store owner is hopeful for a quick return to normal business operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,6974,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-376894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-snap","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115544717063906019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}