When I am checking out at a grocery store, or going through a drive thru, i get asked if i want to donate to a charity.
It makes no sense to ask customers to donate to charity. How about you ask people that actually have money, when the average customers income is a fraction of what people that can easily make a difference do
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Businesses do it so they can write off the charitable donation on their taxes. Even though you gave the money it counts as coming from them.
Can you tell at a glance who has a lot of money and who doesn’t?
Multi billion dollar corporations have the nerve to ask poor people to subsidize very poor people. They try to steal from me so I steal from them.
I don’t think this is unpopular. Corporations have millions of dollars to donate. We give them money which they benefit from.
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Because the total donations from thousands of customers who are asked each day at each location can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars
It’s what the boss asks me to do; feel free to say no. I’m not gonna get yelled at because I didn’t ask; I don’t even care that you say no. Still gonna ask
It’s not quite the same as this but when I go get some frozen yogurt or a sandwich… there’s a “how much do you wanna tip?” question before I finish paying.. like.. I came to your shop and you made my sandwich, which is literally the bare minimum of whats required of you to perform your job. You did nothing above and beyond or deliver it to my house..? Why would I tip for that?
I worked in a corporation’s environmental, social, and governance team and the team actually did a lot of donating and volunteering work. I think for retail stores, part of it is also public image so they could say they raised X amount for this cause.
This is not an unpopular opinion.
Did you see the South Park episode where Randy is at Whole Foods?
They make us ask you too 😭 like no one wants to
Counterpoint. Donating to the food bank they can aquire 10 meals for $1. If everyone donated $1 that would feed many many people.
I mean it’s usually a couple of cents since it just rounds it up to the nearest dollar. I sure as hell ain’t rich but I do it occasionally
It’s all a tax right off
because those who really have money will always say no but the avg person has more empathy than the avg millionare or billionare.
Most of the time, In my experience, the business will be getting a tax break on the amount of money that they give to charity.
They only do it because it the end it help them. Never out of any good intention.
You can make a difference, I really want to convince you of that, but it should come from within, not from pressure at the register. The issue with constant donation prompts isn’t that we’re powerless or that only the wealthy matter. It’s that generosity loses its meaning when it’s driven by guilt or social pressure instead of genuine intention. Giving should be inspired, not extracted. When companies treat charity like an add-on to every transaction, they risk turning a personal act of goodwill into a coerced performance. That’s not generosity, it’s fatigue. So just say no at the register and yes when you know the time is right.
They ask, not forcing you to
Most people can chip in for a dollar or something if it’s a cause they have researched or believe in.
However majority of charities are sketch, and if I don’t know anything about the charity I’m not giving them a cent.
I usually just say, “nooo” before they even finish their spiel. And if they ask me to round up a few cents then I’m like “yeah, sure I can do that” just so I can feel like a big strong man for donating 9 cents that would fall out of my pocket anyway. Anything over 50 cents though and I tell them no.
As the president of a non-profit I am always very thankful when businesses offer to do this for us.
Obviously you don’t have to donate – but $0.35 or whatever you’re rounding up is unlikely to affect you.
LOL. You must not know the scam.
They make their donation and then write it off. Then do those (fundraisers) to get the money back. They’re double dipping as usual.
Ok, I don’t disagree, but it’s just me doing my job.. you can say no. We all have things we do in our jobs that we don’t want to do or don’t fully agree with.
And they only ask because if you donate through them, they get a big fat tax break. Never donate through the grocery store. If you give a shit, go home and donate to the same charity directly.
The donations are a tax write off. That’s why they ask
I don’t donate to many charities because it never seems to make a difference. Ik it’s a bleak way of looking at it, but a lot of the charities I have given to have ended up being very corrupt. It’s hard to know who to trust.
I would strongly support a type of charity collection where you donate your change and it helps to pay for someone else’s shopping, like if they’re short for an item. Say a mother comes in for baby milk, diapers and a loaf of bread, but they don’t have enough for all 3. The collection pot could be used to help struggling people in the community. I’m nowhere near smart or powerful enough to implement something like that. I have no clue how it would be regulated, so people don’t steal and so people dont use it to get freebies or feed addictions, but charity starts at home.
Sweetheart you’re not the main character.
Just because you don’t want to doesn’t mean millions of others also don’t. They make a ton asking at retail stores and it lets charities collect huge sums from small donations that would normally lose money from transaction fees.
Hey, take that up with corporate. Cashiers tend to be punished if they don’t ask.
Not unpopular. I was at an event in France and there was a guy asking for donations to help Yemen. I have sympathy for the people there and the atrocities that are happening, but I had to explain to the guy the absurdity of the situation. I’m from the States, I pay taxes there, some of those taxes go towards bombing Yemen. Now I should donate my money to help the areas that got bombed with my tax dollars? I don’t agree with bombing any country but I couldn’t help but think of the absurdity of it all. Like something out of a Joseph Heller novel
I heard that the business has already donated and they’re looking to customers to recoup the loss… I have set charities I donate too on my own, but I will round up just because I am satisfied by an even total lol
Charity is mostly bullshit on its own.
-Why do I have to care because some parents give no fuck to birth control despite they are broke. Speaking of which, the donator may not even have child becoz of their own financial state.
-Why ask for charity, if the organisation is spending millions for the charity ads, and hire people to beg your money. Just use the money already, not to beg for your operation cost since YOU want to earn in this. Publicly begging is just part of their business model.
-Why do I have to pay for some government’s failure, especially if I’m not their citizen.
-I work to live a life, I earned what I deserve and I have to pay tax for my city to run. I have a lot of problem in my life as well. I am not begging to the public. In capitalism, my boss and my company is taking advantages from my work for their good income. This is just normal. I’m not outputting for more because of the others failure.