You must log in or register to comment.
“No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill”
Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.
Yeah. I know you’re just adding it for the comment. But don’t actually bother the cashier with some grandstanding or lecturing. Honestly, a good “nah, I don’t like kids” is a much better response to brighten their day. They’ve heard Karen complain about the guilt trip nature 100x already.
“I don’t like kids. Not raw, anyway.”
“I love babies: they’re great roasted with small potatoes” - some baddie in one of the original Mad Max films.
if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill
meh, there’s a lot more nuance to this.
(all assuming the charity is legic)
The companies aren’t really saying “we want to donate this money”. They are just nudging people to donate a little bit, with the goal that if a lot of people donate a little, the charity will still have money in the end (and the company gets a tax break).
You need to understand, that almost all of the people nudged will not donate to a charity otherwise. And now they have the chance to donate a little bit without much effort.
In the end, good charities have more money for their work. And that’s always a good thing
Companies don’t get tax breaks for their customers’ donations.
Depends on the country
Just Always say no. Don’t feel guilt, just say no. If it is a charity that you actually care about then still say no and donate to the charity yourself. Why give GiantCorp money for charity when they are trying to bully you with psychological bullshit, making their employee have awkward interactions with customers, AND then taking a tax write off for donations they did not even make! The 50/50 gets me to, If GiantCorp wats to donate then donate don’t use it as a marketing ploy.
Sometimes the charity is also controlled by the same people
There are countries (such as the UK) were one of the main pathways for Tax Evasion for very rich people is to make a Charity or Foundation (in the UK case, you register it on one of the Channel Islands tax havens) to which one gifts the entirety of one’s income (the way it works for tax evasion in the UK is that the entire tax on the money given to said Charity or Foundation is sent to them by the UK State) and then that Charity or Foundation pays for all your living expenses.
Even better, such a scheme also works for evading Inheritance Tax - you just have to change who the controlling board member of said “Charity” or “Foundation” is and now the control of all that money is in the hands of the descendant(s), tax free even if the amount is high enough that inheritance tax would be due (so, for very rich people).
But that’s not even the most special part. The most special part is when some people who uses such tax evasion schemes boast very publicly that “I give all my money to Charity”, since most of the public aren’t aware of this scheme.
This, the company is basically using YOUR donation for THEIR tax breaks. Don’t help the company skimp on taxes.
Stores can’t write off a customer’s point-of-sale donations, because they don’t count as company income, according to tax policy experts. Customers can write off their own donations if they choose. Stores are allowed to write off their own donations, such as when a store donates a certain portion of all its proceeds to charity.
I make an exception for my local co-op; they partner with a different local charity every month, and most of them are fairly small and having a source like the co-op makes an enormous difference for them. I’m pretty sure the co-op itself isn’t pulling any shenanigans; if I really cared I could download the financials and work through it myself.
Otherwise, like you, I always say no. No at the pet store, because animal welfare funds are a major part of our yearly donations. Come to think of it, nowhere else I shop ever asks about rounding up for charity - just the co-op and the pet store. Odd.
A guy looking for loose change for food being made to feel greedy by a multi-billion dollar corporation which wants to take the marketing credit for other people’s charity donations.
No employee actually cares if you say yes or no. And i think i see this more frequently on the card reader now so you don’t even talk to a human.
The company should donate the round-up difference.
Yep. Billion Dollar Companies asking customers to pay for the PR donation made by the Billion Dollar Company.
I always say no and if an employee ever says anything (which they don’t) I’m ready to hit em with “I don’t give a fuck bout them kids”
Fuck that … any time some idiot cashier asks me to donate to something I immediately and before they even finish, I will say ‘NO THANK YOU’
If anyone ever asks me why I’m being so cheap, I remind them that the big giant corporation of a store that I am shopping at is more than capable of donating a few million dollars to the dumb charity they’re trying to push on everyone.
Who’s the cheap one in this scenario? Me not wanting to give a few pennies to a charity? … or a corporation that isn’t donating a million or two for no reason other than that it is chump change to them?
In fairness to cashiers, they’re not the ones spearheading these campaigns. They’re in the same boat as you except that their job security is contingent upon them presenting a donation option.
Yes, I fully understand that … the ones that bug me are the young new workers who haven’t learned the realities of these dumb marketing tricks and instead look at you like a cheap angry old man for not wanting to donate. It usually takes them about a week or two before the reality sets in that most people don’t like these marketing ploys … then it takes another two weeks for them to figure out why … then they finally become the sullen cashier that mechanically goes through the motions of asking and then not really caring what your response is.
The wording in your first comment suggests that you think they’re “idiots” and you interrupt them for asking for the donation that they’re obligated to ask for
Yes I was too hasty and quick to be polite about it … my apologies for that … but it is an aggravating occurrence to have to deal with it in a regular basis.
They’re just doing their job. No one cares why you don’t want to. No need to have a whole speech prepared.
If anyone ever asks me
If people are actually asking, then sounds like yes, there is a need to have a speech prepared.
And if your grandmother had wheels she’d be a bike.
Just be nice and have the common decency of letting them do their jobs and finish their sentences.
That saying is different in my corner of the world, it goes “she’d be an omnibus” lol
“Idiot cashier”… you’re such a jackass.
Lol, its always been a scam.
They just pocket most of the money using legal loopholes.
It’s a tax write off. Not even much of a loophole. Each cent they take from you comes right off their tax bill.
Huh interesting to note.
Rather than receiving a customer’s donation as income, the company serves as a holding agent for that money…
This seems to be where they cheat shit.
South Park did this joke years ago and it was great. Randy was the best before he became a pot farmer.
No.
No.
Someone watched “A Serbian Film” too much. (disclaimer: the most horrifying film I’ve ever seen. Seriously, don’t watch this shit, it’ll give you PTSD. No joke!)
Yeah that scene still haunts me after a decade, especially with having had a kid.
