The answer is NO!

I'd much rather someone mention it at the till or have a table at the supermarket for than coming round knocking on my door at home. Then I do feel "obliged" to say well I actually support this and that..

To be fair, Oxfam since the complaints 2017 -2021 have completely overhauled their systems and there are no subsequent complaints. Save the Children since 2020

I haven't heard news subsequently. Anyway, we can chose other or local charities. They are all struggling - animal charities, hospices, I think there is no harm in asking politely at tills, don't see it as an imposition as I said as long as a polite no thanks is accepted.

Also, shop owners/managers should not be asking check-out workers to beg for charities. It's not part of their duties.

It's not cranky to want people to mind their own business. Check-outs are not the place for charities to ask for donations. When holding charity collection boxes at supermarket doors in the past, we were always told not to beg, not to shake the tin, just stand there and smile.

Asking at check-outs is intrusive and impolite. Perhaps this is why "charities are struggling to stay afloat" as gillycats said.

Well, one of the reasons. Another is overpaid CEOs and workers in foreign countries abusing people (Oxfam and others).

I don’t see a problem with it. Just say no thanks and move on, no need to get cranky about it. Charities are struggling to stay afloat so they’re well within their rights to ask. People will soon moan when, for example, hospices or support charities close.

Yet again that Alexander Pope line comes to mind:
“Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.”

Perhaps a reply of "You have no right to ask." Or even "I suggest you read Alexander Pope's writings on charity."

You'd most likely get a bemused look but it would work I think.

welbeck

Doesn't bother me.
I think it's quite a good idea.
Some of you sound grumpy.
What's the beef ??
You can just skip it.

But we shouldn't be expected to be asked.

These requests to make a decision not to give, in public in front of other people, is a form of moral blackmail, and while I and others on this thread do not give a toss about what conclusions the person behind the till, or behind me at the till, or wherever, reaches about me, when I refuse to give, other people are more sensitive to what people think of them, and will be morally pressured into giving because they do not want to be seen to refuse in public.

People should not be pressured into giving by the threat of public humiliation if they do not. As I said some of us are immune to such pressures, many are not.

Interesting this. I haven’t been asked.

I too am fed up of every shop seeming to do this at the moment. I also feel uncomfortable walking past those hovering in supermarket doorways trying to recruit you to sign up a regular donation to their charity. My DH and I support certain charities of our choice.

I have 3 different charities that I donate regularly to and have chosen to leave sums in my will to. Usually put the odd pennies in box too as think it is a good way to collect that little bit more. BUT it is my choice, and I do not want anyone pushing me to do anything. Some charities have lost out now, as I used to try and save up my small change and then give £10 or £20 when I had collected that up. However I then found I was getting constant letters asking for monthly amounts etc. and specific amounts . As I am a pensioner on a low fixed pension I can not commit to any further monthly amounts, especially now with everything going up all the time.

I do what I can to support the charities I want to , and give time , (I spent 10 years doing 3 days a week as a hospital car driver, and a volunteer driver for the bus up the dales ) and do flag days etc and have done plant stalls to raise money for them. But now I will only put money in tins or go to the specific charity shops and not have anything written down as too many of their letters become demanding and seem to be bent on trying to put a guilt angle to it. I know I am not the only one, and a friend of mine has become so annoyed with a charity that she donated to monthly but who constantly asked her for more in letters that she has actually cancelled her payment to them and moved to another charity.

If I am asked nicely, I will reply that I already donate to charities of my choice. I refuse to have tips or 10% or whatever automatically added on my bill anywhere. Occasionally would send in a review of somewhere that had been especially good , but now these endless "surveys" of how did we do also annoy me and I just delete them.








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I’ve had this in Sainsbury’s, TK Maxx, a card shop wants me to buy a pen as well etc etc. I say no and then feel guilty. It’s the same when I get them at the door. They are asking for worthy causes but I don’t want to be pressurised into a monthly amount just because I answered the door.

I think that these requests should not be on card payment devices. There are already enough distractions and stresses around shopping.

Just to add if I sound angry so be it I don’t make excuses for being honest.

I briefly worked for a charity that said I would never work for one again. I donate through DD to charities of my choice and donate freely all the time to charity shops.
However I am sick of being pounced on by collectors for charity where ever we go. There is no end to constant in your face requests for donations it’s intrusive and rude.

No need to be so angry Sago 😂

Recently a charitable organisation outside a shopping mall asked for a donation so I offered a $10 note. They refused and said the minimum was $ 20 . Cheek! I walked past. I will never support that mob again.

Whiff

I hate the people who come to my door asking for charity donations. The only exception is Santa, the Lions at Christmas.

I give to the charities I support by direct donation.

I don't like people coming to the door asking for money either. Often they are people you know a little bit, which makes it even worse.

People choose where to donate, and are not answerable to others. Saying no is easier for some than others, and nobody should be made to feel awkward on their own doorstep.

Doesn't bother me.
I think it's quite a good idea.
Some of you sound grumpy.
What's the beef ??
You can just skip it.

I hate the people who come to my door asking for charity donations. The only exception is Santa, the Lions at Christmas.

I give to the charities I support by direct donation.

The reason goods are priced at 95p or 99p is so that change has to be given so the till has to be opened and the transaction recorded. I put the penny in the charity box but not the 5p; I save those and donate them to the charity of my choice. Have done for years.

I haven't come across this yet, but agree it's annoying. I prefer to choose how and when I give to charity and don't like being ambushed. So I hope this doesn't come to Devon.

I don't mind at all being asked, as long as no one tries to push it on me or guilt trip.

Not the point, I know, but the Asda self checkout is always asking lately for a contribution to a breast cancer charity. I do often wonder why there’s so much more fund raising for breast cancer, than for prostate cancer.

We have lost no less than four good friends to prostate cancer, none to breast cancer, although two family members have had it, and have recovered.

Greenfinch

DH would agree but I find it embarrassing especially in charity shops. He buys their greetings cards and they only ask him to donate 1p if the card is 99p He says it is the principle :if they want to charge £1 they should. I hurry out of the shop before it is his turn in the queue! Can’t believe he would quibble over a penny!

But if you bought the 99p card at a card shop or newsagents, I don’t think they expect you to donate the 1p.

I’m with your DH, charge £1 then and be done with it.

Yes totally fed up with it! Fuel station Go Outdoors Oxfam Cancer Research. “Press RED button for NO and the GREEN for yes. I choose which charities I want to donate to not shops.