I hate the self checkouts. I scan everything, put it in my bag, want to pay, but then there's a check. So I have to unpack everything, wait for someone to scan everything, then pack everything again. From the 40 self checkout counters there's only 1 for cash money, while I have a lot of cash from selling stuff second hand so need to get rid of it. There's always a line. Oh how I feel shitty AF when I have to unpack and pack everything with 9 people breathing down my neck. And if I made a mistake, they treat me like a criminal. I'm not being paid to do their job! For fuck sake. And even though I don't give a shit about this super rich mega company who extort their personnel, I'm too honest of a guy to steal anything (even though they deserve being stolen from). I'm autistic. I just simply can't. But when I made a mistake, being treated like a criminal while being an honest person makes the whole experience so much worse.

So I resort to ordering groceries online, buy in bulk so I only have to deal with a delivery person once in a while. But next to being autistic, I also have ADHD which causes me to always forget at least one thing from every meal I plan to make, forcing me to go to the store anyway.

Just let me put everything on the conveyor belt, say hi, pay, say thanks bye, grab my shit and go. And repeat this step 3 times until I have everything I forgot.

They want you to give them a tax break. It's a scam like all capitalism is.

And they get credit for donating even tho it was actually their customers.

I've been given the "corporations should be able to run their business how they want and government shouldn't ban things like they banned weed" too many times on lemmy.

We should ban for profit corporations from doing certain things, this is one of them. ~~We know they're using the money as a tax writeoff~~. Ban this shit. Not everything is drugs.

Edit: looks like afaik its not tax deductible for corporations to do this though I would not put it past a small business or local manager to try it. I would prefer other methods for charitable donations other than how well they negotiate with box stores, etc.

Infuriates me as well. I don't think they realize how it looks and sounds in 2026.

The store takes your donation, then they donate it and take all the credit.

“Store name” donated $1 million to XYZ Charity.

I often pass an intersection where a woman is selling ice cold water bottles, and in the other direction, her husband (I assume) is selling flowers. I almost always buy 2 bottles of water from her.

I know that my money is going directly to help a hard working family, instead of some "charity," where only about 20% goes to the actual research, while executives take millions in compensation.

As far as the world knows, they did. It was the $20 you gave them.

Well they will make the donation, but they'll do it with your money, and then they'll take the tax deduction for it, and reward themselves with a nice fat end of year bonus from the tax savings. Isn't capitalism fun?

If it could be verified that they at least matched donations, they might have better luck

I want potatoe coupons!

Donations through a non profit, where the CEO and/or some of their family are on the board and paid a big salary from those donations, so only a fraction makes it to the stated goal.

I always decline, without exception.

1. It's not my duty to pull from my personal funds to support others. I ALWAYS vote to help others with my tax dollars.

2. I don't actually know where my money is going. I haven't researched these organizations. I don't know where my money ends up.

I've been saying this for years.

I feel like we need pinned comment every time this comes up because the mythology around this topic is so pervasive.

Donating small amounts along with a purchase saves a lot on transaction cost for the non profit organization.

Non profits love these things for volume.

Stores do not make money offering these.

If you dislike being pressured to donate at POS, by all means don’t do it, I don’t either!

I had a dream where pretty much the same prompt came up but it was offering me a discount for being poor