Not sure if hypermarkets do the same thing in other countries, but I’ve seen it in the states and it pisses me off
TLDR; those donations go straight to the same corporations’ pockets and “help” them :D
Care-washing: the greenwashing-adjacent pretending to give a shit about anything other than sloppy blowjobs for your board, top executives, and large shareholders.
Just so everyone is aware, when companies ask you to donate, they have ALREADY PAID for the donation and they are trying to get their money back by nickle and diming their customers. Don’t fall for this.
Safeway does that shit. No, I don’t want to end hunger. You’re a grocery store, you end hunger, assholes.
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 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.
Lamo of course you couldn’t stop yourself from doing an ableist slur. Always the case with these heroic defenders of the system.
I love it when McDonalds does this shit
Like, bruh, how about you take money from my order and give that to charity instead?
Maybe even match the donation, or even half of it. I get that a penny here and there adds up really quickly to an enormous brand like McDonald’s, but seriously matching it even for pennies on the dollar would go far to prove that they’re not just trying to associate themselves with being charitable.
I always say “nah, fuck em.”
I’m not helping them get more tax breaks.
They do not get a tax break for it. They do get cheap PR though.
In Vancouver the expected % of tipping has become higher than the interest rate of a grocery store credit card. Even moral purists who think they’re saving the world by tipping are starting to say no.
