Oh for... no, it's not. Diabetic test strips are subsidized under medicare, and diabetics are given a great deal more of them than they can reasonably use in a month. Because cash benefits are largely unheard of in the US, those (sealed) strips have become a form of pseudocurrency (the sealed strips can then be resold to medical device suppliers or black-marketed to any number of places) and goes unregulated because even the cops think it's dumb to prosecute, so it lowkey flourishes provided nobody makes a big enough deal about it. Disabled people get some cash to help out, other disabled people get reduced cost medical supplies, some skeezy chick in a honda accord makes a cut as the middleman.

Could be, that somehow feels less predatory than people who actively need them selling them to cover other expenses. I'll post the un-edited one if you want to call and ask. I didn't want to give these vultures any free publicity though.

It's real I keep seeing them in the merican south and that was my assumption too.

The other angle is that they're enticing junkies to steal grandma's test strips, and only get pennies on the dollar for them anyway.

I'm sure it has, it was news to me when I saw it though. Still messed up imo.

I can assure you these are real signs

It's just the look some phones give images when extremely zoomed in. Think it's just a sharpening effect applied to an image that would otherwise be a bit blurry.

Totally agree. Probably just some heavy AI image processing.