Has anyone elses Tesco's started asking you to round up your bill?

[TinySleepThief]

I genuinely thought it was just a new addition to the self service tills when I used them last week but today the server at a manned till asked me if i wanted to round up my bill with the rounded up money apparently going to charity. When I asked him which charity he couldn't actually tell me?

Is this now a thing in all Tesco's and if so if I were to round up my bill does anyone know where would this money go to?

Yes, it's temporary. They did it last year as well.

I was in Hobbycraft today and when i went to enter my pin number it asked if I wanted to donate to some charity. I really really hate this and think it's an absolute cheek. I've entered a shop to buy an item...I don't want to be guilt tripped into donating to charity.

@formerbabe

I was in Hobbycraft today and when i went to enter my pin number it asked if I wanted to donate to some charity. I really really hate this and think it's an absolute cheek. I've entered a shop to buy an item...I don't want to be guilt tripped into donating to charity.

Which part was the guilt trip?

Yes i know there's no actual guilt trip but I often think pressing no makes me look uncharitable...

I also don't think commercial shops are an appropriate setting to request charitable donations. It's a transaction between the store and customer...nothing more.

anyone know what the limit is? i.e. if you bought something for £1.01 would it ask you to round up to £2, or would it only be £1.50 and above? Also is it always to the nearest £ or, for example if you spent £97.95 would it suggest you round up to £100?

I think it’s a good idea. Just say - no thanks if you can’t.

Dominos pizza online do this too. Theirs is for a homeless charity.

I think it’s a good way of doing it, I usually would put small change in a collection box but as we’re all using less cash this is the modern equivalent.

And how does this work with vulnerable people? So perhaps people with learning difficulties or elderly people with dementia?

@ItsTimeToPlayTheMusic

What the fuck at some of these responses? Not liking it and shouldn’t be doing it?

Yes, it’s been a hard year for many, but charities are included in that. It’s a machine prompting you, not a person, so get over that. If you can’t donate, that’s perfectly fine. If you can and want to, here’s an easy opportunity.

Also, I (like many others) don’t often carry cash...

Good grief. What a thing to dislike. This is depressing.

Don't go into any profession that requires you to bring people round to a new way of thinking.

is about one of the most patronising, immature things I see on here. It screams 'I think I know better than you and I'm all smug and woke about it'. That's how Trump won America, 'Liberal' people to people they think just aren't as enlightened as them.

I have a problem with it, I don't like charities saying they donated X amount of money to make themselves look good to Y cause when actually all they did was skim some extra pennies of customers who have been guilted into doing it by people like you.

I like to choose which charities I give my money to. I choose local charities with small overheads who make a noticeable difference to the community and the user group they support.

If you think Tesco is putting all your pennies to good causes in your name for no benefit to themselves then you perhaps aren't as enlightened as you think.

exwhyzed

Still going to speak slowly because you’re still not getting to. Nothing to do with enlightenment or Trump () or being woke or liberal (quite the set of assumptions there. Are you triggered? ).

If you don’t want to donate, you do not have to. Hold onto your hat here but you can still choose who to donate to.

If you do take the opportunity to donate, charities get more money. I do hate to break it to you but initiatives like this do actually generate more income for charities.

That hat’s looking a bit metallic. Maybe take it off for tonight.

I have stopped asking customers. We have charity pots on the tills and they are always full. I wish Tesco would change the till screen prompt for it, it just pops up and Iv had to refund people because it’s so quick. Us staff aren’t keen on it either

If you don’t want to donate, you do not have to

True but saying no and asserting yourself is generally easier for NT, confident people.

@ItsTimeToPlayTheMusic

exwhyzed

Still going to speak slowly because you’re still not getting to. Nothing to do with enlightenment or Trump () or being woke or liberal (quite the set of assumptions there. Are you triggered? ).

If you don’t want to donate, you do not have to. Hold onto your hat here but you can still choose who to donate to.

If you do take the opportunity to donate, charities get more money. I do hate to break it to you but initiatives like this do actually generate more income for charities.

That hat’s looking a bit metallic. Maybe take it off for tonight.

I'm not triggered because I'm an adult capable of making nuanced and reasoned decisions based on my ability to think critically about the world around me.

You don't get people to do what you want by insulting them.

You do undermine yourself by trying make out you are cleverer and better than others when you aren't.

Totally agree with @exwhyzed , this came up on my till this evening while I was shopping. No mention of what the charities were, just 'would you like to round up to the nearest £?' I like to decide which charities get my money, and I resent Tesco adding this single click option when I've just come in to purchase some essentials. Can't imagine how awkward it would have been having to say no to the cashiers.

I don’t undermine myself there, really. And you’re making assumptions again; it doesn’t help you.

What I do instead is point out, incredulously and sadly, bafflement at the offence taken by people claiming such capabilities that you do when they are presented with an entirely optional chance to donate pennies to charity. Or not, as is their choice. The offence and anger is a sad incitement of certain factions of society.

I am simply staggered that so many can take umbrage and grateful that I was raised with a better appreciation for such initiatives and with capacity for perspective.

I always refuse. If Tesco want to donate to charity, they have plenty of their own money to use.
These companies just want to use it for publicity, so they can appear to be generous by stating they donated £x

The irony is that is just the new way of saying 'are you retarded' and is just as offensive and disabilist.

Not that I'm offended, but I feel like ItsTimeToPlay is the kind of person who in principle would want to be offended on the behalf of people with learning disabilities and hasn't quite thought through the connotations of the mud they are slinging.

@ItsTimeToPlayTheMusic

I don’t undermine myself there, really. And you’re making assumptions again; it doesn’t help you.

What I do instead is point out, incredulously and sadly, bafflement at the offence taken by people claiming such capabilities that you do when they are presented with an entirely optional chance to donate pennies to charity. Or not, as is their choice. The offence and anger is a sad incitement of certain factions of society.

I am simply staggered that so many can take umbrage and grateful that I was raised with a better appreciation for such initiatives and with capacity for perspective.

I think your incredulity and bafflement probably says more about you tbh.

The issues with big charities are well documented.

More assumptions

Very au fait with legitimate issues with certain charities being well documented. What’s so very sad is the willingness of some to be so riled up by being asked. So riled up. Gosh.

By a machine in a supermarket sometimes, too! Good grief. Can’t be an easy life.

I do object to being asked. I go shopping to buy things I need. I don't ask the shop to do anything beyond what they exist to do...ie sell stuff to me. So why should I tolerate them asking me to donate money? I'm a bit skint...perhaps they should donate a few pennies out of their till to me?

I was totally flummoxed at my local Tesco recently.
The checkout assistant asked me if I wanted to do the 'round to a pound' thing. My bill was already showing as a round pound number anyway so I was confused as to whether I would be contributing nothing or another pound.
(It turns out the till automatically rounds the amount up.)
When I pointed out my confusion, the assistant removed the rounding, but then when I agreed to do it, couldn't add it back again.
I really think we should be shown the real amount for our shopping, and then be asked to make the choice of whether we want to do it or not, so we know how much we will be giving.

I have only noticed this in Tesco!

M & S were asking for £1 for Macmillan yesterday