They do not get credit for facilitating your donation. This is a misunderstanding of how donating works based on when I looked it up after saying the same thing. They do it mainly to virtue signal.
Comment on Don't we all hate this
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And they get credit for donating even tho it was actually their customers.
motruck@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I think by credit he means they get to brag about how much they “donated”.
Everyone should know by now they don’t get any tax advantages.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 days ago
If only in the form of a tax break. You’re literally donating to the company asking for the cash.
nathanjent@programming.dev 3 days ago
In many cases they also cause the child hunger by paying their employees a wage so low that food assistance is required.