Charity Packers In Supermarkets

[porkchop]

Let me say from the outset, I AM NOT A SKINFLINT! One of the most annoying events when arriving to the checkout of my local supermarket is to find people from charitable organisations offering to pack my goods. You feel you are trapped into a situation that you have to give something. Again it is most annoying that when you are putting in your credit card pin number to pay for your goods these people do not move and have full view of your actions. Any views?

[viv38]

I do not like them at all. I prefer to pack my own stuff and when you politely decline, they still just stand there anyway so you have to work round them. I donate regularly to charity and do not like being coerced into it like this. Personally, I wish supermarkets would ban them - there rant over !!!

[rockyracoon]

I just give them a quid and tell them no thanks. No one packs my bags apart from me.

[emmie]

a polite no thanks suffices

[rockyracoon]

Should have expanded, I don't mind them doing it per se, better than jingling cans outside the supermarket doors. My kids used to do it in Sainsbury at Christmas time to raise money for their scout group, very generous some people were.

[2sp_]

I tend to do that too, rocky.

I like to put certain things together depending on where it is to be unpacked in the house, or if it is breakable or heavy. I don't want someone else packing my shopping for me.

Do sometimes feel it is a case of charity collection with menaces. Very hard not to give them some money when they are just standing there.

[ummmm]

I hate it. Makes me feel guilty. I hate the big issue seller that stands in the foyer of the co-op making me feel guilty walking out with my bags full of food.

I rarely have cash.

[237SJ]

I`d probably just say yes and chuck them a quid. Anything for an easy life.
I don`t give to the ones standing outside the doors that try to collar me when I leave though.

[Baldric]

My response is short and not so sweet!

[rockyracoon]

It's always the Co-op with the Big Issue sellers, there's one chap who stands outside ours every week and at Christmas time he sings carols at the top of his voice (he knows the words better than the natives), you can't help but give him a few bob for trying :)

[237SJ]

"My response is short and not so sweet" Why be rude though? You could just say no thank you.

[2sp_]

I do try and give cash where I can, but as ummmm also says, I rarely have any cash on me.

[viv38]

I prefer the ones outside with tins.

[ummmm]

I don't have cash because my kids rob it!!! If they hear if the slightest rattle of coins they want want want want...

[gness]

Oh I don't mind....not that I have seen it happen in Aldi! I can say yes please or no thank you and chuck a pound in as long as it's not a charity I won't support.

I've just had an email asking me to charity tin rattle at a supermarket this weekend....not my favourite task but it won't hurt me.

So don't be rude to tin rattlers this weekend.....it could be me and you know how I love to get my own back.....☻

[daffy654]

I don't do the shopping any more (oh does it all) but when I did I used to politely decline their offer but give them a pound anyway.

[mccfluff]

i always pay by card and never have cash, i just tell them that and i pack myself, i don't like the way they just stand there though......

[B00]

They can stand there all they want, they still get nowt from me.

[mccfluff]

they probably just take one look at you and run :-)

[B00]

We can only hope McFluffy :-)

[redman41]

I agree porkchop, the ones standing in the Supermarket Foyers are just as bad