LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) - With families who receive SNAP benefits struggling to buy food for their families, those struggles are extending to grocery stores.

The effect is especially felt for locally owned, rural grocery stores, who can receive an estimated 20-30 percent of their revenue from SNAP benefits.

One of those grocery stores is the Fallsburg Country Store, whose owner Harvey Bhavsar said that with SNAP benefits on hold, he’s seen fewer and fewer customers. In the last week, Bhavsar said he’s lost more than 25 percent of his business.

“Right now, more than 25 percent because of no food stamps and everything,” Bhavsar told WSAZ. “And around this area, especially here in Fallsburg, [there are] lots of poor people living here. They live on food stamps or disabilities or some

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