Not sure if hypermarkets do the same thing in other countries, but I’ve seen it in the states and it pisses me off
Just so everyone is aware, when companies ask you to donate, they have ALREADY PAID for the donation and they are trying to get their money back by nickle and diming their customers. Don’t fall for this.
Suspected as much, donating money is an easy way to get a tax break in most places. Wouldn’t be surprised to see most companies donating just enough to be sure they got the full tax break from it.
I love it when McDonalds does this shit
Like, bruh, how about you take money from my order and give that to charity instead?
Maybe even match the donation, or even half of it. I get that a penny here and there adds up really quickly to an enormous brand like McDonald’s, but seriously matching it even for pennies on the dollar would go far to prove that they’re not just trying to associate themselves with being charitable.
If they actually cared they would donate a dollar of each order they get to charity, that would be houndreds of thousands if not a million per month
or even half of it
I mean they basically do. $20m vs the $56m raised by customers.
But don’t let facts get in the way of you frothing at the mouth.
I always refuse based on principle. You’re really going to guilt me in public into giving a few cents even though you’re a corporation who could easily afford millions or billions? Fuck you.
Care-washing: the greenwashing-adjacent pretending to give a shit about anything other than sloppy blowjobs for your board, top executives, and large shareholders.
Which company is giving out BJs? I probably want to invest promptly
I dont know about BJs but apparently Activision-Blizzard has free breast milk.
Giggity
TLDR; those donations go straight to the same corporations’ pockets and “help” them :D
I always say “nah, fuck em.”
I’m not helping them get more tax breaks.
They do not get a tax break for it. They do get cheap PR though.
In Vancouver the expected % of tipping has become higher than the interest rate of a grocery store credit card. Even moral purists who think they’re saving the world by tipping are starting to say no.
Even if you can afford it it makes no sense. Impulse giving is not a solution to systemic food insecurity, homelessness, insufficient healthcare, etc. If there’s a societal problem, there should be a societal solution. I don’t turn to Walmart to meaningfully address these issues, nor do I trust them to.
In Canada, there is no tax write off or anything that compliments them in donations. It is totally and utterly a cock measure for “lookie at what we done!” for PR by making their employees ask people to their face for charity on behalf of the corporation. And the charities will encourage this because, well they get it all and they’re name also gets said directly to the face of the consumers.
essentially they replaced a separate paid mall santa with an already paid teller and feel good about it.
So please, tell Y’all Mart to fuck off. Find a manager to explain your distaste and disgust. Legit, go to customer service and get a manager. If you think you’re super cool and clever with “smrt cuments” or anger towards the poor fuck who has to ask, no. You’re an asshole and just being a cunt to ruin someones day. It’s not the worker, stupid. Many rely on those charities and it is doubly insulting and embarrassing to even bring it up.
“I might need those har har har” fuck you. the person you are being a tard to is already on them. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
If you mean it, and feel that desire to say it, take it to the fucking manager. Keep those pricks standing there for hours. You’d actually be getting your message into the correct channel, and likely doing the clerks a favor because i have never met one that felt good about having to ask people for money like that.
Lamo of course you couldn’t stop yourself from doing an ableist slur. Always the case with these heroic defenders of the system.
Air Canada does this shit on their flights. Disgusting.
It happens in the UK too.
If you, the civilian, donates to a legitimate cause, the billion dollar company won’t be able to claim that donation on their tax deductions.
If they donate, it’s a zero sum game. Maybe 5 mins in the spotlight for alturism.
But if you give them the money to donate on your behalf? They don’t spend a cent and are able to get tax deductions for “philanthropy”. It’s the best possible outcome (for the company).
I don’t know where that money goes but it sure as hell isn’t to any of the people doing the actual work
Safeway does that shit. No, I don’t want to end hunger. You’re a grocery store, you end hunger, assholes.
I’m not really offended by the asking for donations at the register thing, as long as those donations go 100% to the charity and it’s a good charity, then doing something to make it easy for people to contribute who wouldn’t otherwise take the time is ultimately a good thing.
The one that annoys me is where they match the donations. It feels like a method to guilt people into it by making their refusal to donate $1 into $2 not being donated.
I think it is completely inappropriate. Some people can barely afford to live and then have to feel shame and judged when they have to say no.
