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    1 year ago

    At the self checkout (cuz they cut their cashier staff) : "Would you like to donate a dollar to Children’s Stollary Hospital?

    THE BALLS ON THESE MOTHERFUCKERS

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      1 year ago

      Anytime you’re asked that, it should be read as “would you like to donate to our tax break”.

      Just say no to all of them and donate to the causes you want to support yourself.

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        When asked this question by a cashier, i will ask them if the company matches donations. They reply has usually been no, when it simply wasnt just IDK.

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          Then I am curious, how does it work? I don’t think many people are going to claim thirty cents leftover from coffee on their taxes, but walmart is certainly happy to get the benefit if it can.

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            Walmart gets to advertise about how Walmart raised a million dollars for children’s hospitals, which sounds a lot like Walmart donated money to children’s hospitals.

            The actual donation really does go to the charity and Walmart doesn’t get to claim it on taxes. The dodginess is in the marketing, improving their reputation at your expense. Walmart takes the credit for customer donations.

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            the legitimate promotions of this sort; and walmart, as big and as greedy as they are, are still most certainly doing this on the ‘up and up’, the donations are tracked separately and separate from the revenue stream. it just gets passed-through to the charity. no tax deduction shenanigans involved. walmart already has other ‘legal’ loopholes and accounting tricks to use to lower their tax burden, they don’t have to do something blatantly obvious and easy to track that isn’t nearly as ‘effective’ at it.

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              Regardless of the truth of this - I do not want to participate in the image laundering that the megacorp is then able to do because of the donation of the impoverished masses.

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              It may not be the case in this specific case, but there have been plenty of corporations getting caught doing exactly this.

              I’m not rolling that dice. I’ll donate directly thank you very much

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            Walmart can not claim your donations as a charitable donation on your behalf.

            Regardless if a person does or doesn’t claim the charitable donation, Walmart never is able to anyway.

            There may be other shady aspects about an organization you are donating to and Walmart may be able to make claims on their costs associated with facilitating the donation (for example the costs to set up and maintain the transaction process) but they never ever ever are able to claim your donation, doing so would simply be fraud and there are better ways to cook books than claiming 10 million individual charitable donations on behalf of 10 million people.

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    Insane inflation caused mostly by the profiteering of companies like Walmart causing people to starve and Walmart to profit like never before and even increase their market share!

    Do Walmart do the only humane and honorable thing and share their windfall with the people who made it possible and who need it more than ever? FUCK NO! They steal wages from the already desperately poor and add them to their fucking useless treasure hoard! 🤬

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      1 year ago

      Well a rich person always needs “a little more” that they can squeeze out of poor people.

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      This is a super shitty move by Walmart, but you clearly don’t understand what causes inflation, especially this current run of it.

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            You know what, I was going to write a real time consuming response but I am glad I thought to skim your profile first. You seem okay and all but you pretty clearly have a very strong disagreement with everything covid related, by that I mean the only time you seem to get at all heated, stubborn, outspoken etc is when the subject has to do with government handling of covid. So just, what’s the point? We are on different planets.

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                Sure. Like I said you seem like a reasonable person.

                But covid lockdowns is clearly a subject you don’t have reasonable conversations about. So you know, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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    So, I don’t know if you all knew this or not, but WalMart has everything inside to start a proper medieval riot. Pitchforks, sticks, cloth, I’m even pretty sure they have something we can use as pitch in the camping section. Or we can modernize. They have glass bottles, lighter fluid, rags, and lighters. And the best part is if you use it all inside the store you don’t even have to pay for it.

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    1 year ago

    Walmart to offer new hires $14 instead of $15.

    FTFY, they’re not docking the pay of existing employees.