Sweet Charity

Anniebach, that's quite right and am sure each and every one of us give to charity in some form or other.

Charity shops I visit regularly - donate, buy as others do.

Big Issue - Buy magazine as others do

Rough sleepers - a few bob as others do.

Charity Boxes - donation as thousands of others do

And that's great.

What I don't like, is being intimidated at the till and having to say No.

Embarrassing

I give a monthly amount to a charity and have informed them that is it, do not ask me for more. They then waste donated money sending me raffle tickets, magazines , letters. I will tell them one more time or else I will stop donating. You are right silverspoon125, once they have your details they are like a dog with a bone.

Those who need help and support from charities are vulnerable

The power of the Charities.

It starts with a nominal sum 10p, 15p, 25p but it's only ever going to go one way.

They know where we are vulnerable - At the tills.

I don't like it

I don't want it

I totally object to it

I quite like a charity tin beside the tills in The Card Factory, as most cards end in 49,79 or 99p, so easy to drop a few coins in.
I had to ask for help at the M&S self pay tills for how to include a donation to Macmillan and it took a while for it to worked out.

Quite a few places now ask if we want to round the amount up to xxx for charity. I always refuse as we give every month to our chosen charities and make a point of buying raffles tickets from the GC for various schools, football teams, scouts etc.

The cash till near to me opens with a large advertisement on the screen telling me how I can donate to some aid relief scheme, followed by a message warning me to report anything suspicious or unusual. Disconcerting.

Tesco ask whether I want to round up, sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. I don’t see this as a problem.

I can absolutely assure you the Wilko staff member does not want to be doing that anymore than you want them to.
The directive is made at corporate level by people who never have any interaction with customers or see anything other than ways to reduce staff numbers.
The 5p charity donation on card transactions was as much a surprise to the staff as the customers when it was introduced and we really don’t like having to advise everyone to press the red button to decline the donation in order to proceed with the transaction.

Tesco were recently asking, at the self check out, whether I wished to round up my payment to the nearest pound. No!

I get fed up whenever I buy card/s in Clinton’s and they try to sell me a charity pen ?