Walmart Set To Lose Billions From SNAP Benefits Stopping in November

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Oct 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM EDT


Walmart could see a significant decline in consumer spending if the government suspends Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as a result of the ongoing shutdown.

According to a June report from the market research data firm Numerator, Walmart accounts for roughly a quarter (24 percent) of SNAP shoppers’ total spending.

Given the estimated $100 billion spent by the government on the program annually—roughly $8.3 billion monthly—this would imply a loss of about $2 billion for Walmart if the benefits are withheld for the entire month of November. Newsweek has contacted Walmart through its website for comment.

Why It Matters

Now in its 27th day, the government shutdown that began on October 1 over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies is now the second longest in U.S. history. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are continuing despite the lapse in funding, but the suspension of SNAP payments is expected to significantly impact the more than 40 million Americans who rely on the program.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-set-to-lose-billions-from-snap-benefits-stopping-in-november-10945862

[mdbl]

1. Not just Walmart.

[cbabe]

2. Grocery store profits are minuscule. Losing snap will hurt a lot.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20743107

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Reduced hours and layoffs, spoilage and uncertainty

Retailers are all about quantity and scheduling. Can they cancel or reduce contracts from suppliers? And that will back up to manufacturers. More layoffs.

[synni]

4. So much winning!

Didn't Wally World donate to CheetoIini's campaign? How's that working out for them?

[vanlassie]

20. They are huge donors.

It would be interesting to hear the convo between Trump and Walton-which ever one is in charge.

[RazorbackExpat]

34. The CEO is Doug McMillon-- not a Walton

[Wednesdays]

5. Gee, that's terrible for Walmart.

[IbogaProject]

19. over 9 % reduction in sales possibly

Of course the first month many might squeeze some spending out via various methods but this will have a bad ripple throughout the economy. And groceries make up over 72% of Walmart's gross in store sales.

[BlueKota]

6. They wanted him. They got him.

It's just sad that other innocent people will get hurt because of Walmart and other corporations greed.

[markie]

7. Food assistance

Is a win / win / win program with a substantial multiplier effect….
Individuals are helped, communities are helped, stores/businesses are helped, farmers are helped….
There is really no downside to the SNAP program…. The republicans are playing a very cruel game

[kerouac2]

8. And many Walmart employees use snap

A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that an estimated 14,500 Walmart employees in nine states were receiving SNAP benefits,

So they benefit from snap on both sides of the equation.

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. Starving families, layoffs just before the Holidays,

foreclosed farms, kidnapped families and separations, gassing Americans on American streets, warrantless searches medical insurance and costs through the roof, murdering foreigners in International waters, threatening sovereign Nation's, a tenant demolishing our Whitehouse and the Gov't. shutdown at the behest of that tenant while erecting a ballroom in his own honor.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYBODY!

[raccoon]

25. You should create a thread with this post.

[Buddyzbuddy]

35. Thank you, I did in GD.

[durablend]

28. "Starving families, layoffs just before the Holidays" is the point

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"DEMOCRATS ARE DOING THIS TO YOU"

[Buddyzbuddy]

36. Respectfully, a friendly suggestion, you might want to add

to your response unless you want people to think you meant that, which is entirely possible.
Also, I believe that statement to be a true Republican strategy and the Democrats should not give in.

[durablend]

37. True

I did put quotes around it. Maybe should've put "MAGA:"

[Irish_Dem]

32. The true spirit of Christmas isn't it?

[Trueblue Texan]

10. And farmers will get screwed again. nt

[popsdenver]

11. You gotta wonder........

how many of those 40 Million who got SNAP benefits, were part of the 70 Million MAGAot Trumphumping worshippers???????

[popsdenver]

13. I also wonder

about all the U.S. Corporations, who all were instrumental in getting Trump in office, are now feeling the effects of all this.

He already threw the farmers under the bus, then his ranchers, his voters, and now is also damaging these same corporations?????????

There are many industries that are gonna suffer because of Trumps actions......think about it.......The entire Health Industry, including the Pharmaceutical industry, the hospital industry, the health insurance industry........as well as the Automobile industry, the retail industry, and the food industries to name a few...........

[Bayard]

22. That is an ugly assumption you cannot make

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. It's a mathematical certainty it's a large chunk.

[ChicagoTeamster]

12. Small rural hospitals and clinics are closing and now Walmart will lose SNAP and Medicaid income. They'll close

Small rural communities are going to lose pharmacies, groceries, and medical services. They're already losing jobs and they'll lose more of those too.

[ColoringFool]

14. Urban Hospitals, Also

Christ Hospital of Jersey City, e.g.

[Irish_Dem]

33. Miller and Trump are jumping for joy. Sadistic bastards.

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[popsdenver]

42. Don't forget Putin

He has had a priapism for years and years.....

[betsuni]

15. Why the idea that billionaires corporations oligarchs only motivation is money is too simplistic.

If all they care about is money they'd act rationally. If all that needs to be done is take money out of politics, Republicans would become a normal political party and compromise with Democrats to govern? No. Power, ideology, when the brakes have failed going downhill, other things as well.

[AllyCat]

16. Gosh, maybe if we frame starving people on purpose

As a money-loser for the wealthy they’ll care?

[travelingthrulife]

44. They might trip over them on their way to a ball.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Watch them keep raising prices. They don't care.

[popsdenver]

43. They are in a race

to the.........TOP 1%

[artemisia1]

18. Start hitting the big boy oligarchs in the wallet and we'll see either a budget or stop-gap spending measure real quick.

Only the plebes are allowed to suffer, not the billionaires...

[samplegirl]

24. Lots of places

Places who voted for this shit!
I wish Rulli would go belly up while he kisses trumps ass!

[OC375]

26. Meh

I’m not worried for them. Walmart closing would open up space for 1000’s of small businesses.

[durablend]

29. You mean the ones that'll donate to MAGA/Republicans anyway?

[OldBaldy1701E]

27. So, 1/78th of that family's wealth? (n/t)

[unblock]

30. That's lost revenue. Lost profit would only be about 3 percent of that

So $60 million profit lost, not $2 billion.

Moreover, that $2 billion figure assumes snap recipients will cut their Walmart spending exactly correlated with the flow of snap funds.

In reality, some will continue to shop at Walmart and cut back elsewhere (food before rent) and some of the spending would be covered later once the snap payments are restored (to some extent people will catch up on the spending they missed -- so the interruption may only affect timing, not total spending at Walmart)

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Wally World is also getting hit with the tariffs

since the majority of their stuff is imported from China and they have probably run through their stocked-up inventory by now.

Walmart’s Furner: Tariffs Forcing Move to Domestic Products


They lose profit when they raise prices and demand slows.

[FBaggins]

40. The author makes many mistakes

He lives in the UK and he's just out of school (where he majored in politics and international relations... not economics) - so we should cut him some slack. But this is oversimplified beyond much value.

As you say - can he just asssume that SNAP recipients will stop buying food? The expectation is that recipients will be reimbursed the full amount once the government reopens. And what about the $6Billion/month that gets spent at other grocery stores? What if those SNAP recipients choose to offset their pain by shopping at cheaper stores (actually driving business TO walmart)?

And some states are covering SNAP payments (at least at first) when the federal taps dry up.

[samplegirl]

38. Maybe they shouldn't of

Funded the GOP so much!

[twodogsbarking]

39. Those denying benefits spend more on one lunch than SNAP participants receive in a month.

[mike_c]

41. there's a silver lining in every dark cloud

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