ohhh I think this has just arrived here.
The other day there were a gang of about 20 people in tabards congregated outside the supermarket. During a fairly quiet time Customers had to run the guantlet of one after another proffering bags asking them to stick some extra shopping in the bag and hand it over after they had paid.
Nothing wrong with the concpet, but usually there is a trolly right by the exit where people put in extra stuff they havembought to donate.
This was different. It felt really pressurised by the sheer volume of people asking the same customer again and again. Big deep sigh and sad shaking of heads when a customer resisted the bag that was proffered several times over in the space of less than a minute.
I almost always buy two or three extra things for the charity trolly, but I had the right hump seeing little old ladies look intimidated so skipped it as a form of "caught on the hop and deep disquite over the techniques being used".
Next time I see the tabards outside the supermarket, I'm going to one of the other supermarkets.
Not quite as bad was the big supermarket where a gaggle of people were trying to get customers to sign a direct debit to a charity nonbody seemed to have heard of. They were far too in your face for my liking.
"Give us a smile"!!!!
Am not a performing dog. Do not wish to smile on command, especially when command is in cheesy, fake, children's TV presenter type voice.
Aside from being expensive for the charity and diverting funds, is this sort of thing not risking putting people off donating becuase they feel hassled, strong armed, intimidated and imposed upon ? Which in the longer term colours their vision of specific charities, or charity giving as a whole?