Would you like to round up to £1? No I fucking wouldnt.

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I cant be the only one who is getting increasingly pissed off at being asked to donate 20p everytine I pay for something?

The recent one in a charity shop was being asked to round up to the nearest pound AND then being asked to donate 25p. In fact, it wasnt even asked, it was "shall I round it up?" and "press green to say yes".

I always end up feeling really tight but apart from the fact that it would cost a fortune if I gave a donation every time I was asked, I really resent that businesses get tax relief for this whilst also bragging that they donated £x to charity.

McDonald’s makes extortionate profits. It would be spare change for them to build those places.

It’s shameful they ask working people to donate. They’d be the last ‘charity’ I’d donate to.

No one needs to feel guilty if they say no or press the no thanks button.

The retailer doesn’t care whether or not you donate. They are giving you the option. The shop assistant especially doesn’t care.

I say i cant see i dont have my glasses on i just want to pay or i have said i just want to bloody pay, i was asked to leave a tip in Boots and id spent £1.25!

I hate it! It should be banned as I bet lots of older people feel obliged or end up pressing the wrong buttons.

Do you think “older people” (how much older?) suddenly become incapable of saying no or differentiating between buttons? I’m so sick of this ageist crap on MN.

It used to be 1 or 2p, the charities were doing really well out of it, i didn't mind that...then they got greedy and now no one likes it.

They remove the donations from their profits because it isn’t Tescos money. By collecting the donations they don’t get any extra profit. When they donate all the money raised to the charity its comes of what would be the profits before the company’s tax is calculated.

Yes, I prefer to give charity directly, not via supermarkets.

Whose to say their systems/staff are even adept at separating the charitable donations from the cost of the shopping. I certainly wouldn't trust them.

I work in a related industry, things like this often go wrong.

Yeah, bloody Oxfam scum gouging you out of 1p!

I accident donated 50p to Great Ormond Street on Saturday. Of course it is a worthwhile charity and I used to give to them monthly but the lady behind the till confused me and before I knew it I'd rounded up to £5 from £4.50! Proportionally this was a large markup.

Exactly my view point as well.
Poundland were the first company I noticed doing it on seemingly a long-term basis.
Tesco and Asda both do it as well. As does McDonalds. But at least McDonalds are doing it for their own charity, so I begrudge them marginally less.

I refuse the rounding up thing, it just annoys my head so much. Maybe I'll adopt the title of this thread in future. 😁

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I volunteer in a charity shop. We are pressured by paid management staff to ask customers to round up their bill.
Some staff/volunteers do. Some are quite pushy about it. I simply do not ask. Often if the round up is a few pence the customer will just say round it up. Some who pay cash put their change in the collection box on the counter.
Similarly we are asked to push sales of the charity's lottery tickets. Some serving at the counter are good at this but I cannot bring myself to ask. It is a relatively poor area and most of our customers have very little spare money.
Edited for spelling error.

The McDonald's one is the worst. It seems to trick you into donating. The way the screen is set up you have to really concentrate to avoid donating.
Most of their donations must come from kids/disabled/elderly who tap the wrong spot on the payment screen & donate by accident.

The charity itself is really grabby too - always getting emails to my company asking for stuff for free always emotion laden sob stories as well.

Cheek when it's a huge global company making money on making kids fat & unhealthy.

I always pay a bit extra in charity shops as a donation anyway.
I'd never round up or give a donation to a charity via a commercial enterprise. I wouldn't want them being able to say how much THEY raised from MY money for doing nothing.

So why eat there?

Convenient, cheap, tasty.

Actually quite like maccies it's just their grabby charity that bothers me.

The woman in a charity shop I went to was quite the opposite, she was apologising every time she asked.

i think the only time I’ve noticed it in a supermarket is Booths, I dint think they do it in Aldi. Do booths think their customers are better off?

Just grow a thicker skin, or remind yourself that hundreds of people use the same checkout every hour and the cashier doesn't take notes.

Why? You need to reframe that to annoyance that you are being asked.

Never be embarrassed to say 'no' to something, I feel there is greater expectation on women to comply than there is for men.
Most of our local charity shops have stopped asking customers to round up, perhaps because it was unpopular.

Why not just say, "Not today", or, "No thanks", or just plain, "Nope"?

Nobody can make you feel whatever feelings you feel. Own your own. They come from inside you.

Be bold with your language. The person doing the asking won't take your refusal personally unless there's something wrong with them, personality-wise. There is no need whatsoever to make up little stories to excuse yourself.

This isn’t how it works at all!
The company is not taxed on the donation, because it isn’t their money. It is being collected by them and sent to the charity.
They will be in exactly the same tax position if you don’t make a donation (taxed on profit made in their sale) as if you do make a donation (taxed on same profit made - the extra is sent to charity and not included in their profits)

I never do this.

I refuse to donate to any charity that I haven't vetted its finances first. I will donate to certain charities but even then they get on my nerves asking for more and more.

I think that some charities are important but I also think that there are a lot of charities that are scams or spend the majority of their income on their overheads and provide very little to their end users. I believe that similar charities should merge to gain economies of scale.