To absolutely HATE when shops ask you to donate?

Did you misread McDonalds for The Ivy or something?

Jesus, what a low bar.

And with the price of heating, cooking and food in supermarkets these days McDs may well be cheaper sometimes. At least you can sit somewhere warm while you eat.

I don't mind it so much as I'm quite happy to just say no thanks, but the people who stand around in supermarket doorways and try to nab you on your way out to sign up for a monthly donation to their charity really wind me up, they can be so pushy. There was one outside the co-op a few weeks back who tried to get my attention, I politely said no thank you but he carried on shouting after me as I walked off, trying to flatter me with comments about my "lovely curly hair" as if that was going to make me turn around and change my mind!

I hate this because it’ll be presented as ‘Poundland raised £xy for charity’ as part of their corporate social responsibility thing. It’ll make them look good at the expense (literally) of their customers.

I donate to charity ‘privately’ because I don’t want my money to be used for a corporate PR stunt at no expense to the retailer involved.

If it's a charity I like (ronald McDonald House does great work) I always round up. It's an easy way to give. If it's one I don't support I don't.

Pret used to have a £3.00 contactless charity thing that I used once a month or so. Now it's gone up to £5 I don't bother.

Think it all started with premier inn -GOSH - and I think it's been very successful. But it's a children's hospital, most people will add £1 or something as they're booking a hotel

A pound shop... not so much

I don't mind the 5p at wilkinsons

I see this lots now in shops, Wilko and Habbycraft off the top of my head, they usually just press no before they turn the card machine towards you anyway.

I pay them to NOT pack for me 😁

I’m not anti charity, but I donate on my own terms to groups that align with my values.

I refuse to donate to beggars at atms, beggars with physical deformities, chuggers accosting me on the street, and shops doing exactly what you’ve described op. It’s not about the charity; it’s about how these practices impact on someone more vulnerable than me.

Our Poundland ask you to donate a £1.50 bag for life to the food bank. They are horrendously pushy.

Wouldn't hungry people prefer to eat food, rather than be given a plastic bag to chow down on instead?

I did wonder it it wss some trendy saying I had never heard of
Ill.just Firefox the packing😂😂

It very easily could have been some common modern way of speech that has completely passed by those of us who are middle-aged and older.

I remember being utterly banjaxed when I first heard somebody said the phrase 'Megan Thee Stallion' and I later discovered that it was apparently the name of a pop singer!

Mind, R.E.M.'s 'E-Bow the Letter' was getting on for 30 years ago - much more in my own era - and I still don't get what that was referring to!

Our Poundland ask you to donate a £1.50 bag for life to the food bank. They are horrendously pushy.

If you can "barely afford to live", why are you going in McDonalds?

I did wonder it it wss some trendy saying I had never heard of
Ill.just Firefox the packing😂😂

"Tell you what, you donate £30 to YOUR choice of charity & I'll donate £30 to mine, & we can call it quits."

THIRTY QUID?! They asked you to donate thirty quid?! What a fucking liberty!

"If I donate £30 from my own pocket, will you do the same from yours?"

It’s doubly annoying up here in Scotland when it’s for a charity whose activities are England based, yes I have pointed it out to the shop staff.
In general Hobbycraft were doing it for a while I’ve also had it in charity shops and online shopping.

I definitely think that, if they are going to do this, it seems considerably less unreasonable if it's a charity local to your own town/county/region rather than a nationwide one (or, in your case, in a different nation entirely).

If it's a hospice or a sick children's support facility in my county, I'd be likely to donate (still wouldn't want to be pressured or guilted, though); but if it's just one of the massive national ones with colossal annual incomes and multiple highly-paid staff, I feel a lot less 'connected' and would decline.

THIRTY QUID?! They asked you to donate thirty quid?! What a fucking liberty!

As I said, most stuff (food/consumables,) is 40-50% more than it was 3 years ago, (some stuff has even doubled!) So why on EARTH do they think people have surplus income to fork out even MORE for fucking 'CHARITY?!'

And many people buying from a Charity shop are buying from there because they don't have a lot of money. To ask them for more is an absolute cheek. I don't know how these people sleep at night. I am saying NO to every single one now. They can all fuck off.

That is a WEIRD autocorrect! 😆

Well he shouldn't have been pressuring you a simp!e no.thanks should have Bern sufficient
It did make me laugh though when we went shopping in our local.Iceland and we were asked if we wanted to.buy an extra item as donated food was going to go.to.local ,disabled children and their families ,my dh,agreed and asked where it was going
The local special school.where our son goes too!
So.we might have had it donated back to us!😂

I don't mind being asked - Montezuma support Children on the Edge for example, and if you donate, they donate too. But I would be tempted to complain in your case - I don't mind them asking, but they shouldn't pressure you if you say no.

*before ordering

I recall that considering that was years ago as well as the CEO being ousted. The charity that was listed was donating to aid for those impacted by the earthquake in Turkey & Syria. It explained it on the website after ordering.

I will also point out Papa John’s are franchised so should I punish the people who part own and the employees working there for the issues of a CEO who is from and lives in another country whom they have never met?

Poundlands in London card machines ask you to donate 25p.

No cashier from the capital are stupid or brave enough to dare ask for donations of any amount, so leave the computers to be ones getting sworn at 🤬

BritishHeartFoundation

we were buying a chest of drawers and were asked to donate £30, felt really on the spot

money grabbing bastards