Not sure if hypermarkets do the same thing in other countries, but I’ve seen it in the states and it pisses me off
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.
Rich people are begging poor people to give charity and this makes you, a poor person, feel good?
I’m outraged by chutzpah of asking your customers to give to charity when the company barely does any charity of their own.
Walmart had $572,800,000,000 in revenue for 2022. Thats up $14,000,000,000 from 2021. They paid out shareholders $15,900,000,000
I’m sure my $1 will make a huge difference.
I think you’re both right here. Making it easy to donate to a cause with which you believe, by making a donation box available, is awesome. Guilt tripping you into it is wrong. Asking you loudly at the register is wrong. Matching my donation (a form of shaming if you don’t donate) is wrong. A grocery store around here use to do a “we are donating $x to this charity, help us if you can by adding to the pile” thing, which was nice. They donated what they donated, and you added on top of that if you could. They made it easy. Then they got on the “we’ll match your donation” train, and that, imo, was wrong. Pure chutzpah. I stopped donating at the stores when that happened. I’ll still donate directly to the organization, though, if I agree with their cause.
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.
Wtf are hypermarkets?
Super super markets.
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.
If you have any to spare, give your money directly to the victims of capitalism: homeless people.
Most charities under capitalism are an excuse to overpay MBA board members with your donation dollars and then brag about being on that board in capitalist circles. Most corporate drives are a way for those corporations to lower their own tax bill on your dime. Most things that need charity under capitalism are glaring reminders of what parts of society capitalist greed leaves out in the cold to starve.
If the homeless spend it on liquor, good for them, a slight reprieve and numbing of the pain our society inflicts on them 24/7 for the crime of being sub-optimal capital batteries.
And if you won’t do that because you won’t get a receipt from the homeless human beings to write your donation off on your own taxes, starving the commons of revenue, then fuck you, that isn’t charity. Charity is giving with no expectation of return, save a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
There’s a name for giving money and expecting something tangible back in return like a tax break: a transaction.
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 most cases, 100% goes to the charity directly. It’s free advertising for the charity. If you’re able, you should round up and donate.
Yeah most do. They get to take those donations as tax write-offs for the rest of the business.
I sometimes joke “no thanks I’m more likely to be the one actually needing those donations” and some cashiers look pretty horrified lol
No they don’t, this is tax fraud and illegal. Companies are not allowed to claim donation round-ups as their own for tax purposes. They may match donations, which they can claim, but they cannot claim money they did not spend as their own donations. You, however, can, if you keep your receipts.
“Just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean they don’t do it” – Fair point, but this is the IRS we’re talking about. I doubt big business are willing to fuck around that particular avenue. Other avenues, definitely.
Wow, this place really is becoming Reddit!
I had to see that particular lie for like 13 years there, glad to see the same bullshit transfer right over!
Good for you for spreading hyperbolic provocative lies on the internet without ever looking it up for yourself!
And just like Reddit, the quickest way to get accurate information is to post inaccurate information and then get 10 super snarky corrections by know it alls in the comment replies!
Exactly!
May god help the ignorant or stupid.
Cunningham’s law in action
