Comment on YSK that when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it!

• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Donate more and stop bothering me.

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• kajib@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And that’s great! But to the poster’s point, don’t worry about coercing the customer to.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not coercement. It’s literally a hey do you want to help out this organization. Most normal people don’t have a way and don’t know a way to actually donate. This is a way for normal people to provide donations for organizations that we feel could use them. And yes these organizations do actually get the donations. For example The Smiths here in town or Kroger as they’re known Nationwide donates to the primary children’s hospital all the time. Yes I do provide them a direct check and they do usually a matching dollar for dollar for everything that’s donated so if 50,000 people donate a dollar each the company will donate an extra $50,000 on top of that. I see nothing wrong with that and you shouldn’t see anything wrong with that either.

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