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If you make minimum wage or are simply miserly and don't like charity, you can always say "No." If you are a cheap bastard, I think you should be more thick-skinned when the cashier gives you the stink-eye.
I say no because I prefer to choose my OWN charities.
Has NOTHING to do with minimum wage, miserly or disliking charity!
Safeway here does it for various charities, Walk for Life, Prostate Cancer, the local food pantry. I don't get offended and am glad the 12 or 15 cents isn't enough to bankrupt me.
On their website I got: 'While the exact amount varies from year to year, we are committed to giving at least five percent of our annual net profits to charitable causes.' .
If the customers are making the donation, it isn't the same as a corporate donation.
I don't mind rounding up, as it's really just a small amount of change. Here it is requested for food banks and disaster relief.
It does get tiring being asked to make a donation for a different cause every single week at the check-out though. I've bought countless pink ribbon and sneaker cards. I'll give when I want, and decline when I don't.
I like to more direct my chratibale giiving. So I say ;no thank and never had a problem.I realise the clerk is doig what he/she is told to and appreciate some may actually do they chartible giivigthis way.
Thanks for the thoughts on this issue. I agree with the posters that have designated their charitable contributions to organizations directly, as I have, and I limit my donations directly to those charities. I'm also not sure how much of the rounded up "change" or bag refund actually ends up going to the charity, what %. Does the store take a %? All these requests for donations is certainly becoming more commonplace these days, not just at Whole Foods. Stores should clearly post the names of the "charity of the week" and post what % of the cash collected goes to the charity and what % the store or others skim off. Some of the cashiers I've encountered don't even tell customers which charity the donation is for. Thanks again for the comments.
Our local Shop Rite supermarket has coupons for contributing to our state food bank at each check out. They are there to see and the clerks make no mention of it.
The store donates food to our totally volunteer church food bank and meals on wheels. The store also gives store credit coupons to the pastor to hand out to those going through hard times.
There is no skimming going on here. I know the people in charge.
I really doubt that a pet store would skim, neither do I think WF would because they give separately on their own, over and above the checkout donations.
What I resent is being hit up by panhandlers three times per block. The few times per week that I buy groceries? No big deal.
If you make minimum wage or are simply miserly and don't like charity, you can always say "No." If you are a cheap bastard, I think you should be more thick-skinned when the cashier gives you the stink-eye.
I say no because I prefer to choose my OWN charities.
Has NOTHING to do with minimum wage, miserly or disliking charity!
There are enough good charities and organizations to give to that I do not need the advice of a retail chain.
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