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Shopping in supermarkets is becoming a little bit annoying these days as many of the supermarkets are allowing all sorts of groups and charities to have people at each checkout offering to pack your bag for a donation. Aren't they making enough in the charity shops and are brownies and scouts not making enough with their various club activities?
I am no skinflint and this used to be an occasional thing that wasn't a problem. Not these days though, they're there practically every time I go to my local supermarket and it's a different group every time. Are they on rotation or something? Some may say it is only a few pence they are asking for, but for some of us who are living on a limited income, a few pence every time they go shopping soon adds up to a few pounds. And yes you can say "no thank you" but then they look at you as though you are being unreasonable.
So you let them help you, give them a donation, and arrive home with your eggs packed under your bag of potatoes, tins placed on top of your fresh bread, and items of fruit and veg bruised and battered.
So basically you've paid for some well-meaning teenager to destroy half of your shopping. I think that supermarket chains should do away with this recent practice of getting charities and groups in to help pack shopping. Most of us are more than capable of packing our shopping without assistance.
Then of course, once we've escaped the checkout we're ambushed at the door as we try to leave by various companies offering to help reduce our electricity bills, take out a credit card with us, would you like to join such and such, motoring etc. I just want to go shopping and then go home in peace!
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Supermarkets enjoy the publicity, just as the newspapers do.
We are no more willing to give up our hard-earned than people were in the middle of the last century, because, kept in ignorance
they keep feeding us rubbish about people in need
Who would do the collecting if everybody went to the charity shops ?
That's why the Tescos are also plagued by the charities, everything is.
Keeping us short of our hard-earned makes less of money for us to squander !
It's head control, head control all the time !
Oh I don't know, a job? If you can't afford to do it, don't accept it!
I for one will now only give to local charities, including the local hospice. I'm not prepared to add to the luxurious lifestyle of some hypocritical charity boss.
I understand it has gotten to be quite a common thing to find bag packers at supermarkets now and we do appreciate it can be annoying if you are in a rush, but most are quite understanding and simply saying "sorry, I have my own organisation" or "sorry I'm in a rush" is okay we do not expect to be allowed to pack bags we would just like to help...
Yes you can say no, but regardless of how politely you say this, it still feels rude. Plus I often pay using a card and have no extra change.
Sorry but I work very long hours to pay our mortgage etc, I don't really feel like donating my hard earned cash every time a group of teenagers want to do a charity bungee jump!! Lol
As my 16 yr old. Become european champion on the 5th august 2012. At his loved sport "cycle speedway"
Now having chance at world championships.
This being held in australia in november. Costing around £2200.
He has been doing speed from the age of 8. Is a very keen rider. So doing a bag pack would or could help so much.
Lemsip
Charities should be sending the money directly to train and employ local people to do the jobs that this gap year participants do.