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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Is it only me, or does anyone else get boiled when they go to the local supermarket and they are faced with an adult and a couple of kids asking, "can we help with your packing?"
Help with your packing usually comprises of your shopping being dumped into the bag any old how, regardless of what it is, if it is likely to leak or get damaged. Then after all that, there is the ever familiar bucket into which you are supposed to deposit any spare change that you may have left after the supermarket has fleeced you for the weeks shopping.
At our local ASDA and Morrisons (I can't speak for any others) the collection is usually for a school, or a kids' football team that, to be honest, we've usually never heard of. I have no doubt that these are genuine collectors, but I prefer to support charities of MY choice and don't like to feel pressurised into donating money to a cause that I know, and most likely don't want to know, anything about, but if you say "No thanks, I'll pack my own shopping" it makes you feel like a proper twat and if you do let them pack your stuff, you can hardly say, "thanks" and go away without putting something into the bucket, so either way you are bolloxed and unless you are a very hard person, you are more or less obliged to donate, whether you want to or not.
Am I becoming Victor Meldrew or does this get up anyone elses nose as well ?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As someone who has done this a couple of times then you are quite correct. I was involved with local Youth Football so we did the bag packing thing a couple of times to raise funds for equipment etc.
By getting the kids into their footy kits there was no doubt in our minds that we were playing the "emotional blackmail" card but sometimes needs must.
You would also be surprised to hear that we often had shoppers say no for all the reasons you give and it never caused offence so next time just say no ta 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i just always say no and i dont give them any money and i still walk out smiling
How Bob wishes he could be hard like Kitty ..."
i give him some tips lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i just always say no and i dont give them any money and i still walk out smiling
How Bob wishes he could be hard like Kitty ..."
If he is struggling with being hard Viagra has been known to help |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"i just always say no and i dont give them any money and i still walk out smiling
How Bob wishes he could be hard like Kitty ...
If he is struggling with being hard Viagra has been known to help "
Viagra ? naaaa, just one look at Kitty will do the trick |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I found a solution to this problem. Having had my shopping thrash, (IE 2 litres milk stuffed on top of a loaf squashing it) and not being hard enought to tell them to sod off.
I tell them to unload the trolley on to the belt and leave the packing to me, that way they do a bit for their money and I save my shopping from being thrashed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The old lady in front of me at the supermarket dropped dead right at my feet earlier!!! I felt sorry for her as she had just bought one of those "bags for life" BOOM BOOM |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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PMSL I bought some lady things today for that time of the month and the box came open and they all rolled out all over the conveyor belt!!
Im so glad there were no charity people packing the bags today LOL |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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And bugger me !! I started this thread today and got fleeced by the bloody Boy Scouts at Morrisons in Morpeth, but crafty sods that they are, they were there tonight, usually they are doing this kind of thing before lunch. Make you wonder if some of the scout masters are on this site and have read this thread lolll
Anyway, don't mind ths Scouts too much, so, as suggested earlier, we packed our own shopping amd gave them a quid. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A similar thing happened to me last week. I was going away for a few days working and Siren couldn't do the shopping on her own (pregnancy related issues) so I did a big shop for her. There I was, at the checkout with £200 worth of supplies, and some young snot on the till asks me if I need help with packing.
I said no specifically because of the reasons stated in the OP - they don't care what they pack where and if it gets damaged or not.
The kid on the checkout then proceeded to chuck things down the tray at me like he was on speed or something, and that was AFTER I had requested he slow down - TWICE.
Needless to say, all my groceries ended up in a heap all mixed up in the packing area.
Then I got a chance for revenge! muuuuuhahaha...
He said, "that will be £198.50 sir."
I said, "Sure, wait till I've finished packing ok"
...and then I took my merry little time sorting everything out into the correct bags whilst the queue at his till grew... and grew.... and grew!
I said a very polite, "Thank you." and tootled off to the ciggie counter for my lotto tickets. (which won a tenner btw).
As for charities? Nah. I pay income tax. If that's not enough then someone is screwing things up higher up the food chain so let them go beg from them.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do think that stores should stop asking if people would like to donate while they serve you. If I wanted to donate I would have, and not in the store but online to a Charity I'm familiar with  . |
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