Not sure if hypermarkets do the same thing in other countries, but I’ve seen it in the states and it pisses me off

  • Jamie@jamie.moe
    157·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      293·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      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.