Senate Accepts Plan to Squeeze Commissary Benefit

The Senate Armed Services Committee has accepted a Defense Department plan to pare taxpayer support of base grocery stores, which if enacted into law would lower shopper savings at least two percentage points next year as well as cut store operating hours and other shopper services. Defenders of the benefit for military families and the military resale industry fear the committee's action, if it becomes law, would be a significant first step toward devaluing, or even phasing out, discounted on-base shopping at stateside bases. For more details, see this Military Advantage blog post.