Does a viral video capture a grocery theft related to the freeze of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, in November 2025? No, that's not true: A search for the origins of the video showed that it had been online for more than a year before the 2025 SNAP freeze. The video mentioned that the scene in question allegedly took place in Concord, North Carolina, but when Lead Stories contacted its local police, they did not confirm that.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on November 3, 2025. It opened:
No SNAP November is heating up! These two women are caught on camera stealing 2 CARTS FULL of products and stuffing them into their car.
The add-on text in the video repeated the claim:
Thieves caught on video unloading two shopping carts full of stolen merchandise because 'no more SNAP benefits'.
The voice-over from the attached clip continued:
Active robbery. BJS Concord.
This is what the video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of video at x.com/AmericaPapaBear)
The post implied that the footage was recent and that the scene was related to SNAP benefit cuts.
A geographic reference in audio helped narrow down the supposed location of the purported incident to the area surrounding a BJ's location in Concord, North Carolina.
When asked about an incident described in the post on X, a Concord police communications officer told Lead Stories over the phone on November 4, 2025:
Personally, I'm not aware of it.
The earliest versions of this video have been circulating on social media at least since the summer of 2024 (archived here), thus, predating the November 1, 2025, SNAP benefit freeze (archived here) by more than a year:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by ppv_tahoe at instagram.com)
The original clip's description said nothing about SNAP and did not offer any other specific reason for the purported theft, if it was one.
The date of the footage is also indirectly confirmed by the temporary license plate (archived here) that appears in one of the frames:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by ppv_tahoe at instagram.com)
The date seen in the screenshot above -- September 9, 2024 -- indicates the plate's expiration date, which predates any news stories from 2025.
