To absolutely HATE when shops ask you to donate?

[ProfessionallyIrritated]

IABU and I know it, I’m just hot, bothered and peeved off.

you know when you’re in literally anywhere, like for instance McDonalds and it always wants you to round up to the nearest pound… I can deal with it on self service tills as you can just click no.

was in Poundland earlier buying a couple of essential cleaning bits, came to £4.50 (don’t get me started on how nothing in POUNDLAND is ever A POUND anymore!!!!!!)

self serve tills aren’t even working so I go to a regular till.

Barely-out-of-his-teens cashier scans my items and then was like “and would you like to donate £3 to” I don’t even remember what it was. I was like no thank you, and he went (loudly) “are you sure? You could make a difference to someone today”

me: no thank you, and I don’t think you should be pressuring people into making donations when they don’t want to.

him: well a lot of our customers do donate so that’s why we ask

if it was rounding up to the nearest 10p or even 50p I don’t think I’d mind as much but THREE POUNDS? that’s only just less than what my shopping came to…..

I know charities need to raise money and IA definitely BU but why the fuck do shops ask people to donate to charity? It doesn’t help their buisness presumably. And what happened to just pressing a button on the PIN pad to say no instead of having to verbally broadcast it? It’s almost like being peer pressured into donating ffs.

I can barely afford to live as it is, I don’t have the money to be donating to charity at the moment as mean as that makes me sound

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

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.

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.

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!

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.