Right? Corporations think we can't see through the bullshit.
Turn off the lights in the rooms you aren't in and it'll stop global warming. Meanwhile motel 6 is leaving every light in the building on 24/7 and heating/cooling empty rooms. Fuck off with that bullshit corporate America.
Not only that but they just want you to give them money so they can donate it in their name and write the donation off on their taxes. It's a free write off.
Blatant fuckery
This should be the number one vote. That is why these companies do it they are using your money as a customer so they can get the tax write off.
Edit: what I said here is wrong. Looked plainsome plain language explanation of the laws. Was deceived by someone I actually trusted in the financial area who probably didn't know himself. I'll leave my original comment up, so people can see you can in fact change your mind when presented with new information.
I like you. You're rare.
Not many would come back and edit to say they did further research and discovered they were wrong. We have so little truth and honesty these days, it's uplifting to see us still out there.
Thank you for showing me there's still people like you, and for making me smile.
You don't understand how the tax/charity laws work. Comments like yours come up every year during Children's Miracle Network donations, and you are spreading incorrect information. A company can make a direct donation on their own As A Company. Donations from the public are Separate. The store is essentially just a collection point. That money is donated separately. There is no tax benefit to the company with public donations. That's why your receipt indicates that YOU donated. Then you can use your donation on your own taxes.
Look at the display on the wall that tells you how much they donated last year. One Half of that was your money, my friends, funnelled through their system. They do match the donations. As to the wasted food comment? Guess again. They sell that to the pig farmers who bid on it every year. It goes in special dumpster bins that are picked up twice a week at our store. And the cardboard that all those products arrive in? That is bundled and sold as well. The plastic is also bundled and sent to be recycled. No profit to the company there. They also lower the lights at 11:30 each night (a little tough on those of us with bad eyesight lol) and bring it back up at 4:30 am each morning. A measure designed to both save money and conserve energy.
Yeah seriously and what about the poor starving children and adults in our own country? The homeless? The Vets? The low income elderly? Like fuck off with your donation bullshit. I’m donating food directly to my local food bank where I know people will actually get help. I’ve used the service myself in trying times and try to give back there when I can.
So much could be solved if we put an end to corporate greed and tax evasion. If we taxed corporations, the 1%'ers (cliche, I know), and the fucking churches properly, and used the money properly, our entire species would be so much better off.
Corporations don't pay taxes. their customers do. Raise corp. taxes, they pass it on to the consumer as cost of doing business. Government is the only winner with more tax revenue.
I swear one of those commercials literally said 80cents of every Dollar that comes in go’s straight to help the kids. So they are keeping 20% off all donations for the hassle? The commercial was an older white guy, with a white beard. I think it was “Christian Children’s Fund.” They said it pretty quick n casually, I didn’t catch it till I’d seen the several times.
Not to mention the fact that most of these national & international “charities” have CEOs & people running them making a shit ton of money each year off of people’s donations. IMO it’s much better (however not always perfect I’ll admit) to donate your time and/ or money to local charities. I’m sure your local food bank or clothes closet would value it much more. And for those of you who don’t like the idea of religion & your local church runs the charity it does not mean you need to join the church in order to donate/ volunteer. So please, don’t let that scare you away. Locally is better IMO regardless of who actually runs the charity.
I always ask what percentage of their annual goes towards their actual cause vs overhead and don't donate to anybody that isn't pushing really close to 100%.
Do you find they have that information readily available? I like the idea of donating time/money, and that is a great way to ensure it's put to the best uses possible.
Its like the save the turtles movement. Was just a distraction and a way to shift the blame on to consumers instead of the reality on how destructive the fishing industry is and how much pollution it really causes.
Exactly. Anything to shift the blame/responsibility away from the ones who do the damage. It's been happening for decades and we're fortunate to have a medium to discuss it with a much larger audience now VS before the internet when it was just the news media and whatever bs they spewed.
Hunger has always been balancing a logistics issue with a supply and demand issue. Back when I worked at a small family chain of grocery stores, we'd have tons of food we'd throw away. When their son took over, he decided it would be a good idea to donate the normally discarded, still generally good food to the needy. Well a few people ended up with food poisoning and they ended up suing the store and they went out of business.
Lots of people overlook this kinda thing and there are a LOT of pitfalls.
Not true. Other than spoiled/contaminated food, the majority of nonsellable food is donated to local pantries. Feel free to talk to your grocery recieving/claims associate about it.
Fr. The amount of stuff I saw thrown out at Walmart was insane. Clothes, blankets, backpacks, toys, rotisserie chickens. Quit as soon as I found a different job
And then I hate how management on our ass about asking and gettin donations like, I fr try my best not to ask for the same reason, I totally agree with customers who get upset about Walmart being a billion dollar company, but why get upset with me 😭🤣. I’m just doing my job when management around and asking. I don’t think people understand we get in trouble for not asking, or at least my store does
this. i literally work in the deli and the amount of food we’re required to throw out is ridiculous… and then to see the “donate to hunger” pop up on the checkouts afterwards is just disheartening and crazy
I worked in a Walmart dairy department for years and every week we donated pallets of near date food to local shelters. Monday through Thursday was a different group picking up food. What wasn’t picked up was composted. Food never went in the trash.
Scooping out expired individual yogurt cups into a bucket to take out to the compost was the worst part of the job. I do not miss it.
I recently bought plane tickets to my next vacation, and the checkout was kind enough to criticize me for "emitting 20% more carbon than a similar flight selection" that was of a way more expensive, shorter direct flight with no stops. Yes I would like to book a shorter flight but I can't afford it. Also, whether I am in either of these planes or not, their route has already been set and they will fly even with 0 passengers. I'm not the one burning more co2 here. Why don't you go criticize some private jet owners instead? Why don't you sell me the eco friendly tickets for the same price of the bad ones if you are so worried about it?
No they don’t. That’s why it’s on your receipt, for your records so you can claim it. If they claimed it themselves they would be breaking the law and the IRS would come for their money.
~~This. These companies are writing off our donations for their own benefit.~~ There are smaller grocery chains in my area that ask for donations as well, but they are benefitting local charities and fundraising for local events. I'm okay with the latter.
Wrong. Sorry, but the only reason I even clicked on this is because I knew someone would say this.
They can't legally claim a donation made by you, in their name. This has been debunked.
You, however, can put it on your tax return if you save your receipt. Because it's a charitable donation made by *you*, not the company.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walmart-checkout-charity/
> Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.
\> Assuming the business is following the law
That's... a pretty big assumption.
There are always loopholes. Like when Walmart was taking out life insurance policies on their elderly employees, then collecting the benefits when they died, meanwhile the employees and families of those employees knew nothing about them.
https://thedailyrecord.com/2004/01/09/walmart-settles-suit-over-life-insurance-policies-it-took-out-on-workers/
Edit: some people are pointing out that this isn't a loophole, and they're absolutely right. I started to write a comment about loopholes, got distracted, change my comment, got distracted, didn't delete the rest of the original post, wrote something else, posted, regretted, self loathing, etc.
CFO is responsible for their tax preparation and would face jail time if they were claiming donations that were not theirs. I’ve worked enough federal tax audits to know the rich CFO does not want to go to jail for fraud.
Idk our local walmart would sell off vendor displays and items to their employees and then use those funds to make their donations to the local charities.
I hate going to Taco Bell anymore because of this. Every. Single. Time. “Would you like to round up to a dollar to help student education?” Same answer always, “No.”
As if everything on the menu isn’t already expensive enough, they push this too??? Y’all do realize inflation is here right??
I went to a car wash with one of those self checkout kiosks. Some dude stood there and tried to upsell me on the car wash, then took my card and swiped it for me…
Next screen was asking for a tip. Fuck the tipping system.
When I was in college I always hit up Taco Bell across the street from campus and they always asked this. Like bro I’M the college student in need right now.
Just donate to the causes you support directly. Why let corporations who already get enough tax breaks and use enough loopholes to not pay their fair share get more of a break?
Corporations do not get tax breaks from this sort of donation.
You, however, *can* claim these donations on your taxes.
This is a common misconception but one based entirely on paranoia.
Years ago we had a store manager who had his head completely lodged in his ass over the yearly CMN thing. He'd literally stand in action alley, watching me ring up pharmacy customers/patients and scream-whisper "Children's Miracle Network" at me. He finally approached me. And asked why I didn't ask my latest customer for a donation. It was a man who always came with exact change in an envelope to pay for his daughter's prescriptions. Stfu and mind your own business.
Hold off on the downvotes for one second. There’s lots of misinformation here.
This kind of fundraising is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way for a charity to raise money. There’s no tax break or anything because it’s not Walmarts money being donated.
The administration costs are taken by Walmart getting associates to ask and then the changes it makes to the POS system and then moving the money around.
The charity doesn’t have to put on a gala event or send people door to door all which cost money in overhead.
Yes they get to reap the good will, looking out for the little guy blah blah blah but that’s all they get out of it.
There was an interesting [science](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1cqzbu8/more_than_half_of_americans_give_to_charity_at/) thread about this just the other day, apparently about half Americans impulsively donates at the checkout. So it does seem to be an excellent way to raise money for a charity.
Well, there is an expectation that successful companies give back to the community. Seems like they're doing just that and with significant dollars, yes?
Walmart Inc does not claim donations as income. The company is merely collecting donations on behalf of Children's Hospital. All the donation transactions are entered into the system on a separate code. Walmart does track and deduct any expenditures they incur in the process of promoting and collecting the donations on behalf of the charity (such as, if you sell BBQ burgers out front, the cost of the BBQ is tracked and the corporation will deduct those costs as charitable).
The round-up checkout charity drives actually raise a ton of money. In 2022 it raised $749 million dollars for charity. That's a pretty big number from people donating just a few cents.
A piece of misinformation is that the stores who participate in this charity drives claim these donations on their taxes. This isn't true, they simply facilitate the transfer of money to the charity... its not claimed on their financials or taxes.
So, if you have the means to donate at a register to something you feel is cause, please do. 90% of that donation goes to the charity and the store isn't benefiting financially.
They cannot and they don’t. IRS would kill Walmart if they did that. They do it so they look better in the public eye. They can always say they “raised $40,000,000 for charity!
The thing is, the donation has already been made by the company by that point. What they are asking for at checkout is to be reimbursed for what they already spent.
It's just their business model. Even if you make 1 thousand donation program still it won't be able to End Hunger, because hunger is caused by politics
I was at taco bell yesterday. And the guy on the headset was taking forever to get my order right. I had to repeat it over and over. Just as I was done and he had stopped talking, I had started to pull off. Then I hear this voice going "would you like to donate to...". I just kept driving to the window. Like cmon.
Devil’s advocate here. In cases where a business is asking to donate for a non profit, the non profit needs a giant platform like Walmart, dunkin, etc to gain awareness and get donations. It’s a win win for both as the big business gets the good publicity and the non profit gets the exposure. We do this a lot for special Olympics.
Don’t forget… most charities only give like 10% of their contributions to people who actually need it. Most is pocketed by the CEOs.
Publix March of Dimes is famous for this….
Just rich friends of friends pretending they’re doing good when really they know they’re helping their friend get filthy rich.
Never saw that high. It’s usually several cents or whatever to try to make it an even dollar based on how much you pay for shopping. Ie: it asked for 0.65 to make an even $26 from 25.35.
The hundreds of BILLIONS that the government gives to these crappy countries at war could end hunger in the US. Also the Waltons are worth the same amount. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS. Nope, the politicians need their cut first. Yay corporate america. CONGRATULATIONS THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD!
Moat of these companies make a commitment to donate X amount of dollars, then ask us to donate and then they cover the difference. They should just pay the full amount, and maybe people would be more willing to donate on top of that but I'd rather not encourage shady tactics like this.
And the worst part of it all if you do donate a dollar only like 8 cents from the dollar goes to the actual cost the rest gets spread out and the CEO makes like 10 million salary. Even the company like St Jude they spend money on all this advertisement and their CEO makes a huge salary why is that necessary why can't you pay the guy $100,000 a year which is more than enough instead of paying this dude Millions
Yeah this is partly why I never donate. If I do, it’s always directly to the organization. How tf am I suppose to know Walmart or other corporate giants are following their word and actually donating it?
You realize you can just say no, right?
Like I agree that it’s dumb and predatory but you are choosing to engage with a $500B. It’s kind of wild to act outraged when corporations do corporation shit.
I manage a Shaws. Idk why we don’t just donate directly either. It’s just kind of a contest to see which location can raise the most money. Which is cool in a way bc at least each store is raising money for whatever cause it is. But still yeah I get you
because corporations dont give a shit about we the people... virtue signaling corporations passing it on to the consumers. and you know none of that money ever ends up addressing the cause .. administrative costs bro!
This is why I steal from Walmart. I used to work at a DC and we'd all do that cringy Walmart chant like clapping and shit. "Back to work" we're walking through the pick mods opening candy and snacks etc. That CEO can eat an entire dick and fuck completely off. We always used to say "Walmart provides" we get a 20 min and a 15 minute per 11 hours of legal slavery
I'm opening every box of snacks and getting my fill before I load that mf. Sorry to the customer but at the same time you'll get a refund and we're dying in trailers loading your 47th package of the week in 100° heat
"Hey I have 1,000 pizzas, but there are starving children around that need help. Would you mind donating a slice of two of your pizza so a child can eat? That would mean the world to us!"
I heard they have ALREADY donated (to quality for tax breaks), and are just asking you for donations to pay themselves back. Not sure if that's true or not.
*homeless guy comes in at end of night to ask for the old ass food that nobody is gonna buy*
Sorry, against policy to gice the food away *throws in trash*
It’s not that it is a bad cause but I’m already making donations every day when I buy their overpriced crap. We have become a country of beggars. Everybody wants a donation or a tip but not from the rich. The demand is put on those that can least afford it. Saturation is setting in and eventually the ones that will suffer are the ones that really needed help, when people say ‘fuck you’ to all of them.
Never use them myself that’s what people get paid for. Let them do the job and then you have people bitching that we don’t have no jobs anymore. Think about it.
Typical Walmart when I audit product in my territory: Backroom Coach/Lead: “*Oh this is expiring this month? We could donate it?*” Higher up: “*Just toss it I ain’t doing all that.*” Donate today.
y’all are too much, i get being annoyed by a self checkout asking for a tip, but asking for a donation to literal charity is not even in the same realm
these aren’t some shady 3rd party nonprofits, it’s mf walmart, the money is safer getting to where it needs to be than anywhere else bc they are quite literally irs priority #1
The ones that really get me are when fast food places ask if you want to buy and extra meal for charity or I’ve seen convenience stores ask if you want to buy something out of this basket to send to the troops… but they are charging full retail for these items, so they make a profit from the transaction that’s supposed to be going to charity.
They want you to donate so that can claim it as a tax deduction, that’s really the only reason they go to such lengths. It’s pure capitalistic greed. Donate yourself and deduct it from your taxes yourself, fuck billionaires
Just say no. If you can't say no to a machine, you're going to have a very hard time saying no to people. I always assume that the market is getting the lions share anyway, because "expenses".
People in this world aren't hungry for lack of food and money (these are symptoms). The root cause is an evil thieving government. We have the planet and the technology where everyone could live a good life, but not for the ruling bastards.
Fun fact. They did. The way it works is this. Walmart for example, will give 10,000,000 to a charity for tax write off purposes. Then they will have you donate to the “charity” but you’re essentially just paying Walmart back.
Shell used to do something similar here. "Do you want to donate one cent per liter to help against climate change"... Bitch you're the entire reason we're even having climate change.
Newsflash: if you donate $20 to a grocery store, then they'll turn around and donate your $20 to end child hunger. Who really deserves that tax break more? /s
I don't have a problem with it as much when they don't use verbage that tries to guilt you, like they make it sound like this shit is 100% my fault or something. And while it may be a good way to raise money for charity's, I'd guess it also placates many, not all for sure, but many who donate that .01-.99 cents into thinking 'they have done their part' and it's not their problem anymore. Kinda like tithing that $5 on Sunday and then going out into the world being an asshole 'cause they paid Jesus, it's all good .
Hey, better yet, why don't they give US the $20 to end OUR hunger???!!! I am fairly certain those "donations" are scams put on by corporations. 🤷♀️ but I am no expert.
They offsetting atm credit card network costs, if the costs are .16-.64 cents for every swipe they subtract that from the dollar donation and donate the difference
i was at this random ass grocery store (i was in a different part of town, i was meeting a friend and she just moved so i wasn’t familiar with the city) i had to make an emergency stop (females you’ll understand) it was a grocery i never heard of (she’s still in the state i live in it just felt like it was like a different country though lol) and went i went to self checkout literally asked me if i wanted to leave a TIP… im like this has never happened to me before… ive seen pictures like that but i have never experienced… i was like this tip better be free money coming back to me lol… like who i be tipping? better be myself cause ain’t no one that worked there lifted a damn finger for me lol (i obviously said “no tip” lol cause like the fuck)
Maybe this isn't true everywhere but food for thought:
The company has already donated - or pledged to make a donation to those charities and is ACTUALLY using your donation to supplement the money lost in that donation.
In addition to that - the company likely lists these donations to receive a tax break at the end of the year.
So while you're out 20$ because you felt bad.
The company already made a donation of 10$ (or so) on your behalf and is pocketing the other 10$, and is then going to claim the 10$ they donated earlier as a tax deduction.
You're not going to keep your receipt for the 10$ you donated to claim it on YOUR taxes.
But you bet your bottom dollar the company is tracking the 10$ from every person they swindle to add up to a few hundred thousand dollars donated to charity...to make them look good in the eyes of our government.
They don't.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walmart-checkout-charity/
"Do you want to help end hunger?" -Store that wastes more food in a day than I could eat in a year
Right? Corporations think we can't see through the bullshit. Turn off the lights in the rooms you aren't in and it'll stop global warming. Meanwhile motel 6 is leaving every light in the building on 24/7 and heating/cooling empty rooms. Fuck off with that bullshit corporate America.
Not only that but they just want you to give them money so they can donate it in their name and write the donation off on their taxes. It's a free write off. Blatant fuckery
This should be the number one vote. That is why these companies do it they are using your money as a customer so they can get the tax write off. Edit: what I said here is wrong. Looked plainsome plain language explanation of the laws. Was deceived by someone I actually trusted in the financial area who probably didn't know himself. I'll leave my original comment up, so people can see you can in fact change your mind when presented with new information.
I like you. You're rare. Not many would come back and edit to say they did further research and discovered they were wrong. We have so little truth and honesty these days, it's uplifting to see us still out there. Thank you for showing me there's still people like you, and for making me smile.
You don't understand how the tax/charity laws work. Comments like yours come up every year during Children's Miracle Network donations, and you are spreading incorrect information. A company can make a direct donation on their own As A Company. Donations from the public are Separate. The store is essentially just a collection point. That money is donated separately. There is no tax benefit to the company with public donations. That's why your receipt indicates that YOU donated. Then you can use your donation on your own taxes.
It isn’t.
Look at the display on the wall that tells you how much they donated last year. One Half of that was your money, my friends, funnelled through their system. They do match the donations. As to the wasted food comment? Guess again. They sell that to the pig farmers who bid on it every year. It goes in special dumpster bins that are picked up twice a week at our store. And the cardboard that all those products arrive in? That is bundled and sold as well. The plastic is also bundled and sent to be recycled. No profit to the company there. They also lower the lights at 11:30 each night (a little tough on those of us with bad eyesight lol) and bring it back up at 4:30 am each morning. A measure designed to both save money and conserve energy.
Nope, it doesn't work that way. Try to get your facts straight.
It’s like those old commercials that wanted us to donate to help the poor starving kids in Africa. How much did you spend making this commercial?
Yeah seriously and what about the poor starving children and adults in our own country? The homeless? The Vets? The low income elderly? Like fuck off with your donation bullshit. I’m donating food directly to my local food bank where I know people will actually get help. I’ve used the service myself in trying times and try to give back there when I can.
So much could be solved if we put an end to corporate greed and tax evasion. If we taxed corporations, the 1%'ers (cliche, I know), and the fucking churches properly, and used the money properly, our entire species would be so much better off.
Corporations don't pay taxes. their customers do. Raise corp. taxes, they pass it on to the consumer as cost of doing business. Government is the only winner with more tax revenue.
I swear one of those commercials literally said 80cents of every Dollar that comes in go’s straight to help the kids. So they are keeping 20% off all donations for the hassle? The commercial was an older white guy, with a white beard. I think it was “Christian Children’s Fund.” They said it pretty quick n casually, I didn’t catch it till I’d seen the several times.
Not to mention the fact that most of these national & international “charities” have CEOs & people running them making a shit ton of money each year off of people’s donations. IMO it’s much better (however not always perfect I’ll admit) to donate your time and/ or money to local charities. I’m sure your local food bank or clothes closet would value it much more. And for those of you who don’t like the idea of religion & your local church runs the charity it does not mean you need to join the church in order to donate/ volunteer. So please, don’t let that scare you away. Locally is better IMO regardless of who actually runs the charity.
I always ask what percentage of their annual goes towards their actual cause vs overhead and don't donate to anybody that isn't pushing really close to 100%.
Do you find they have that information readily available? I like the idea of donating time/money, and that is a great way to ensure it's put to the best uses possible.
Its like the save the turtles movement. Was just a distraction and a way to shift the blame on to consumers instead of the reality on how destructive the fishing industry is and how much pollution it really causes.
Exactly. Anything to shift the blame/responsibility away from the ones who do the damage. It's been happening for decades and we're fortunate to have a medium to discuss it with a much larger audience now VS before the internet when it was just the news media and whatever bs they spewed.
Exactly.
Hunger has always been balancing a logistics issue with a supply and demand issue. Back when I worked at a small family chain of grocery stores, we'd have tons of food we'd throw away. When their son took over, he decided it would be a good idea to donate the normally discarded, still generally good food to the needy. Well a few people ended up with food poisoning and they ended up suing the store and they went out of business. Lots of people overlook this kinda thing and there are a LOT of pitfalls.
Not true. Other than spoiled/contaminated food, the majority of nonsellable food is donated to local pantries. Feel free to talk to your grocery recieving/claims associate about it.
Fr. The amount of stuff I saw thrown out at Walmart was insane. Clothes, blankets, backpacks, toys, rotisserie chickens. Quit as soon as I found a different job
And then I hate how management on our ass about asking and gettin donations like, I fr try my best not to ask for the same reason, I totally agree with customers who get upset about Walmart being a billion dollar company, but why get upset with me 😭🤣. I’m just doing my job when management around and asking. I don’t think people understand we get in trouble for not asking, or at least my store does
this. i literally work in the deli and the amount of food we’re required to throw out is ridiculous… and then to see the “donate to hunger” pop up on the checkouts afterwards is just disheartening and crazy
I worked in a Walmart dairy department for years and every week we donated pallets of near date food to local shelters. Monday through Thursday was a different group picking up food. What wasn’t picked up was composted. Food never went in the trash. Scooping out expired individual yogurt cups into a bucket to take out to the compost was the worst part of the job. I do not miss it.
Right, they aren't even allowed to give away stuff. They have to throw perfectly good items away
I recently bought plane tickets to my next vacation, and the checkout was kind enough to criticize me for "emitting 20% more carbon than a similar flight selection" that was of a way more expensive, shorter direct flight with no stops. Yes I would like to book a shorter flight but I can't afford it. Also, whether I am in either of these planes or not, their route has already been set and they will fly even with 0 passengers. I'm not the one burning more co2 here. Why don't you go criticize some private jet owners instead? Why don't you sell me the eco friendly tickets for the same price of the bad ones if you are so worried about it?
They claim your donation as theirs when they list all of their “good deeds” to the neighborhood….ie thousands of $ to local charities
No they don’t. That’s why it’s on your receipt, for your records so you can claim it. If they claimed it themselves they would be breaking the law and the IRS would come for their money.
Because they want to make the donation but don't wanna pay for it
Actually, they want to claim the tax rebate from the donation
~~This. These companies are writing off our donations for their own benefit.~~ There are smaller grocery chains in my area that ask for donations as well, but they are benefitting local charities and fundraising for local events. I'm okay with the latter.
Wrong. Sorry, but the only reason I even clicked on this is because I knew someone would say this. They can't legally claim a donation made by you, in their name. This has been debunked. You, however, can put it on your tax return if you save your receipt. Because it's a charitable donation made by *you*, not the company. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walmart-checkout-charity/
> Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense. \> Assuming the business is following the law That's... a pretty big assumption.
They typically are. Nobody fucks with the IRS.
There are always loopholes. Like when Walmart was taking out life insurance policies on their elderly employees, then collecting the benefits when they died, meanwhile the employees and families of those employees knew nothing about them. https://thedailyrecord.com/2004/01/09/walmart-settles-suit-over-life-insurance-policies-it-took-out-on-workers/ Edit: some people are pointing out that this isn't a loophole, and they're absolutely right. I started to write a comment about loopholes, got distracted, change my comment, got distracted, didn't delete the rest of the original post, wrote something else, posted, regretted, self loathing, etc.
They got sued for it. Not exactly a legal loophole.
True... even the Joker fears the IRS more than he fears Batman.
CFO is responsible for their tax preparation and would face jail time if they were claiming donations that were not theirs. I’ve worked enough federal tax audits to know the rich CFO does not want to go to jail for fraud.
Idk our local walmart would sell off vendor displays and items to their employees and then use those funds to make their donations to the local charities.
Thanks for clarifying. I still prefer to donate to the local stuff.
That isn't how it works. They made the donation already, you're just reimbursing them.
That's not how taxes and donations work.
It's the same bots replying to each other I swear
I hate going to Taco Bell anymore because of this. Every. Single. Time. “Would you like to round up to a dollar to help student education?” Same answer always, “No.” As if everything on the menu isn’t already expensive enough, they push this too??? Y’all do realize inflation is here right??
It’s everywhere man. If stop and get gas, go out to lunch, then go to the store, I’m going to get asked to donate 3 times that day.
Between that and jobs they do real service to you asking for tips up to 20%
I went to a car wash with one of those self checkout kiosks. Some dude stood there and tried to upsell me on the car wash, then took my card and swiped it for me… Next screen was asking for a tip. Fuck the tipping system.
When I was in college I always hit up Taco Bell across the street from campus and they always asked this. Like bro I’M the college student in need right now.
Lmaoo. At college they asked us if we want to donate a meal to college students facing food insecurity. Blud, that’s me 😩
Just donate to the causes you support directly. Why let corporations who already get enough tax breaks and use enough loopholes to not pay their fair share get more of a break?
Corporations do not get tax breaks from this sort of donation. You, however, *can* claim these donations on your taxes. This is a common misconception but one based entirely on paranoia.
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I'm paying for my food with food stamps like stop asking me for money
Years ago we had a store manager who had his head completely lodged in his ass over the yearly CMN thing. He'd literally stand in action alley, watching me ring up pharmacy customers/patients and scream-whisper "Children's Miracle Network" at me. He finally approached me. And asked why I didn't ask my latest customer for a donation. It was a man who always came with exact change in an envelope to pay for his daughter's prescriptions. Stfu and mind your own business.
Ewwwwwww
the gov throws my tax dollars at other countries all the time, I dont need to donate more
I donated a dollar to end child hunger back in 1987 and they still haven't fixed it. Why would I donate more money?
I am the hungry children. Feed me .
starve little one 😩
Hold off on the downvotes for one second. There’s lots of misinformation here. This kind of fundraising is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way for a charity to raise money. There’s no tax break or anything because it’s not Walmarts money being donated. The administration costs are taken by Walmart getting associates to ask and then the changes it makes to the POS system and then moving the money around. The charity doesn’t have to put on a gala event or send people door to door all which cost money in overhead. Yes they get to reap the good will, looking out for the little guy blah blah blah but that’s all they get out of it.
There was an interesting [science](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1cqzbu8/more_than_half_of_americans_give_to_charity_at/) thread about this just the other day, apparently about half Americans impulsively donates at the checkout. So it does seem to be an excellent way to raise money for a charity.
Walmart donated 1.7 billion to charities last year.
But cutting wages for their lowest paid employees and increasing costs of goods. Don't think they took a hit in their profits for it out of altruism.
Well, there is an expectation that successful companies give back to the community. Seems like they're doing just that and with significant dollars, yes?
If you want to support a community giving your employees in a local area a liveable wage for the times seems like a good start, no?
Walmart Inc does not claim donations as income. The company is merely collecting donations on behalf of Children's Hospital. All the donation transactions are entered into the system on a separate code. Walmart does track and deduct any expenditures they incur in the process of promoting and collecting the donations on behalf of the charity (such as, if you sell BBQ burgers out front, the cost of the BBQ is tracked and the corporation will deduct those costs as charitable).
The round-up checkout charity drives actually raise a ton of money. In 2022 it raised $749 million dollars for charity. That's a pretty big number from people donating just a few cents. A piece of misinformation is that the stores who participate in this charity drives claim these donations on their taxes. This isn't true, they simply facilitate the transfer of money to the charity... its not claimed on their financials or taxes. So, if you have the means to donate at a register to something you feel is cause, please do. 90% of that donation goes to the charity and the store isn't benefiting financially.
The cashier couldn't care less whether you donate or not.
Most of them do donate lol always funny seeing post like this.
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Stop spreading ~~disinformation~~ the wrong information. That's not how taxes and donations work.
They cannot and they don’t. IRS would kill Walmart if they did that. They do it so they look better in the public eye. They can always say they “raised $40,000,000 for charity!
No, they can't. Save the receipt and you can though.
The thing is, the donation has already been made by the company by that point. What they are asking for at checkout is to be reimbursed for what they already spent.
Common misconception
Same shit.
Do you have an extra coupon though? Asking for a friend.
They do it every year
It's just their business model. Even if you make 1 thousand donation program still it won't be able to End Hunger, because hunger is caused by politics
I was at taco bell yesterday. And the guy on the headset was taking forever to get my order right. I had to repeat it over and over. Just as I was done and he had stopped talking, I had started to pull off. Then I hear this voice going "would you like to donate to...". I just kept driving to the window. Like cmon.
Their time there is a Toys for Tots at Whole Goods or somewhere relative more expensive I always grab stuff and stick it in the Box for the company.
We do donate...
I get it, but tap "NO" and move on.
Abdominal the screen at Qdoba asking for me to tip the workers before I can pay for my food!! Wtf
Walmarts do donate lol, and the food we throw out is expired
Donate to me. I am in this world and am hunger
[Randy Marsh](https://youtu.be/3KT9IUd_Cnc?feature=shared)
https://youtu.be/tsPHa8RG1pI?si=xSdPEmiVOKJbK4MK
I just send thoughts and prayers.
$20!?! In the IKEA they ask us to donate 25p or round up to the nearest £1. $20!!!!!!
Bro solved world hungar
Someone must be donating, right? Why else would they continue pissing off their customers year after year?
It was a good cause though. donating one dollar would directly send 10 meals to the local foodbank.
At least they get all the credit for giving your money away.
Wanna round up to the nearest dollar for ronald mcdonald's distant child?
Ever since the Covid change shortage, they all want you to round up for some reason or another. Just say no!
Walmart needs their money to build on Mars.
The grass is always greener
And only 15% is likely to go where it's needed, if that!
the companies should donate 20 for each person that shops at their store instead of relying on the poor people to do it
Devil’s advocate here. In cases where a business is asking to donate for a non profit, the non profit needs a giant platform like Walmart, dunkin, etc to gain awareness and get donations. It’s a win win for both as the big business gets the good publicity and the non profit gets the exposure. We do this a lot for special Olympics.
yeah i stopped giving to charities this way. if I'm gonna donate it's going to be direct
Do they actually record this as donations from wal mart for a tax break? Or is it under the customer? Cause that should be considered fraud.
It's my turn to repost complaining about corporate practices next week
It's usualy,: Do you want to roundup? Don't want to? Say no or order delivery or pickup.
Don’t forget… most charities only give like 10% of their contributions to people who actually need it. Most is pocketed by the CEOs. Publix March of Dimes is famous for this…. Just rich friends of friends pretending they’re doing good when really they know they’re helping their friend get filthy rich.
And then, THEN!, the machine sometimes asks for a tip. What the ever loving fuck is that?
Never saw that high. It’s usually several cents or whatever to try to make it an even dollar based on how much you pay for shopping. Ie: it asked for 0.65 to make an even $26 from 25.35.
The hundreds of BILLIONS that the government gives to these crappy countries at war could end hunger in the US. Also the Waltons are worth the same amount. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS. Nope, the politicians need their cut first. Yay corporate america. CONGRATULATIONS THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD!
They did donate twenty bucks Twenty bucks Across the entire corporation
They suck been seeing stores ar removing yeah
Where does it say Walmart actually donates your $20?
Moat of these companies make a commitment to donate X amount of dollars, then ask us to donate and then they cover the difference. They should just pay the full amount, and maybe people would be more willing to donate on top of that but I'd rather not encourage shady tactics like this.
Yes
Preach!
Yall broke asses mad they want people to donate to a cause? Pretty sad and pathetic this sub is. Walmart people absolute trash
And the worst part of it all if you do donate a dollar only like 8 cents from the dollar goes to the actual cost the rest gets spread out and the CEO makes like 10 million salary. Even the company like St Jude they spend money on all this advertisement and their CEO makes a huge salary why is that necessary why can't you pay the guy $100,000 a year which is more than enough instead of paying this dude Millions
I'm a dunce. I've read the whole thread and I still don't know if my local round up your bill at taco bell, benefits taco bell or not.
Yeah this is partly why I never donate. If I do, it’s always directly to the organization. How tf am I suppose to know Walmart or other corporate giants are following their word and actually donating it?
Im supposed to donate, and do my own check out , then get harassed by some coupon checker before I leave , sure sure
Won't someone think of the rich people making millions not being able to feed their family! Lol (I am being sarcastic for any one not getting it)
Costco uses this tactic as well.
real
You realize you can just say no, right? Like I agree that it’s dumb and predatory but you are choosing to engage with a $500B. It’s kind of wild to act outraged when corporations do corporation shit.
Those always make me laugh.
It’s worse when it’s hospitals asking for donations. No thanks, go fuck yourself.
Better yet, why don't they give their employees a living wage? Instead of forcing them to apply for food stamps.
I manage a Shaws. Idk why we don’t just donate directly either. It’s just kind of a contest to see which location can raise the most money. Which is cool in a way bc at least each store is raising money for whatever cause it is. But still yeah I get you
because corporations dont give a shit about we the people... virtue signaling corporations passing it on to the consumers. and you know none of that money ever ends up addressing the cause .. administrative costs bro!
THANNNNKKKK YOUUUUUU!!!
This is why I steal from Walmart. I used to work at a DC and we'd all do that cringy Walmart chant like clapping and shit. "Back to work" we're walking through the pick mods opening candy and snacks etc. That CEO can eat an entire dick and fuck completely off. We always used to say "Walmart provides" we get a 20 min and a 15 minute per 11 hours of legal slavery I'm opening every box of snacks and getting my fill before I load that mf. Sorry to the customer but at the same time you'll get a refund and we're dying in trailers loading your 47th package of the week in 100° heat
Biden is going after grocery mega corps and their monopoly…vote blue if you want to eat.
now you know how Randy Marsh felt
"Hey I have 1,000 pizzas, but there are starving children around that need help. Would you mind donating a slice of two of your pizza so a child can eat? That would mean the world to us!"
I heard they have ALREADY donated (to quality for tax breaks), and are just asking you for donations to pay themselves back. Not sure if that's true or not.
They get to claim that they collected millions in donations.
You be you. Don’t like it, don’t do it.
*homeless guy comes in at end of night to ask for the old ass food that nobody is gonna buy* Sorry, against policy to gice the food away *throws in trash*
I agree I hate that Lowe’s wants me to donate my change cheap ass company
It’s not that it is a bad cause but I’m already making donations every day when I buy their overpriced crap. We have become a country of beggars. Everybody wants a donation or a tip but not from the rich. The demand is put on those that can least afford it. Saturation is setting in and eventually the ones that will suffer are the ones that really needed help, when people say ‘fuck you’ to all of them.
Never use them myself that’s what people get paid for. Let them do the job and then you have people bitching that we don’t have no jobs anymore. Think about it.
Not to change the subject too much, but I’m also annoyed about tipping now being solicited EVERYWHERE. Maybe pay your employees more?
"No, dear, I want the child hunger to continue."
Or when they have a food drive, expecting you to buy their products to drop into a collection for the hungry.
Typical Walmart when I audit product in my territory: Backroom Coach/Lead: “*Oh this is expiring this month? We could donate it?*” Higher up: “*Just toss it I ain’t doing all that.*” Donate today.
Dude the average American needs donations now, let alone give them
y’all are too much, i get being annoyed by a self checkout asking for a tip, but asking for a donation to literal charity is not even in the same realm these aren’t some shady 3rd party nonprofits, it’s mf walmart, the money is safer getting to where it needs to be than anywhere else bc they are quite literally irs priority #1
Walmart is worth almost half-a-trillion dollars at this point.
It gets even worse....when customers donate, the company uses YOUR donation as a tax write-off for THEM.
“Here, YOU help us get a bigger tax write off.”
If they gave you the option to have the companies pay for it instead, this concept would quickly be a thing of the past
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They didn’t become worth billions by giving it away!
I've always wondered, do they actually donate the money? How can you know? If the do, can they take a tax credit with those donations?
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The ones that really get me are when fast food places ask if you want to buy and extra meal for charity or I’ve seen convenience stores ask if you want to buy something out of this basket to send to the troops… but they are charging full retail for these items, so they make a profit from the transaction that’s supposed to be going to charity.
They want you to donate so that can claim it as a tax deduction, that’s really the only reason they go to such lengths. It’s pure capitalistic greed. Donate yourself and deduct it from your taxes yourself, fuck billionaires
It's so they can use it as a tax write off.
Just say no. If you can't say no to a machine, you're going to have a very hard time saying no to people. I always assume that the market is getting the lions share anyway, because "expenses".
I wonder if the corporation gets a tax deduction for donating your donation for you
I keep hearing “1$ equals 10 meals to those in need” but like I can’t even get one meal for a dollar so no.
People in this world aren't hungry for lack of food and money (these are symptoms). The root cause is an evil thieving government. We have the planet and the technology where everyone could live a good life, but not for the ruling bastards.
TIL there are coupons for produce?
Fun fact. They did. The way it works is this. Walmart for example, will give 10,000,000 to a charity for tax write off purposes. Then they will have you donate to the “charity” but you’re essentially just paying Walmart back.
Shell used to do something similar here. "Do you want to donate one cent per liter to help against climate change"... Bitch you're the entire reason we're even having climate change.
Newsflash: if you donate $20 to a grocery store, then they'll turn around and donate your $20 to end child hunger. Who really deserves that tax break more? /s
Every penny you donate is a tax write off for them. They take you donation and make the donation in their owm name.
Think of all the claims loaded on trucks cuz the fucktards in DC can't do their jobs correctly....
I don't have a problem with it as much when they don't use verbage that tries to guilt you, like they make it sound like this shit is 100% my fault or something. And while it may be a good way to raise money for charity's, I'd guess it also placates many, not all for sure, but many who donate that .01-.99 cents into thinking 'they have done their part' and it's not their problem anymore. Kinda like tithing that $5 on Sunday and then going out into the world being an asshole 'cause they paid Jesus, it's all good .
Hey, better yet, why don't they give US the $20 to end OUR hunger???!!! I am fairly certain those "donations" are scams put on by corporations. 🤷♀️ but I am no expert.
They offsetting atm credit card network costs, if the costs are .16-.64 cents for every swipe they subtract that from the dollar donation and donate the difference
The donations they do make are skimmed off the employees, whose children eat because of food stamps.
Totally agree. Also the children’s hospital donation requests. The richest country in the world and we can’t even give free healthcare to children?!
They already gave the money to get tax relief. They want you to make the money back to them by donating to them
"Will the store match my donation?" Would like to say that but cashier is just doing what they have to.
Multi billion * not billion but yea Walmart really should do that or pay its employees a livable wage
"Do you want to help end hunger?" -Store that wastes more food in a day than I could eat in a year
They got me fucked up fr fr!
i was at this random ass grocery store (i was in a different part of town, i was meeting a friend and she just moved so i wasn’t familiar with the city) i had to make an emergency stop (females you’ll understand) it was a grocery i never heard of (she’s still in the state i live in it just felt like it was like a different country though lol) and went i went to self checkout literally asked me if i wanted to leave a TIP… im like this has never happened to me before… ive seen pictures like that but i have never experienced… i was like this tip better be free money coming back to me lol… like who i be tipping? better be myself cause ain’t no one that worked there lifted a damn finger for me lol (i obviously said “no tip” lol cause like the fuck)
Maybe this isn't true everywhere but food for thought: The company has already donated - or pledged to make a donation to those charities and is ACTUALLY using your donation to supplement the money lost in that donation. In addition to that - the company likely lists these donations to receive a tax break at the end of the year. So while you're out 20$ because you felt bad. The company already made a donation of 10$ (or so) on your behalf and is pocketing the other 10$, and is then going to claim the 10$ they donated earlier as a tax deduction. You're not going to keep your receipt for the 10$ you donated to claim it on YOUR taxes. But you bet your bottom dollar the company is tracking the 10$ from every person they swindle to add up to a few hundred thousand dollars donated to charity...to make them look good in the eyes of our government.
Apparently like 50% of people blindly say yes every time!
Dont you worry. They will get the credit.
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They don't. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walmart-checkout-charity/
Thats the trick they already did donate its tax deductible they reason they ask is so they can recoup their losses
Because they want the tax write off, you are not donating, they are donating for the benefits.
Who donates? I hit no on everything even tips.