Being Panhandled While You're Paying Record High Food Prices
I haven’t thought of anything to post about from the PDN in the last few days. (Remember, suggestions and off-topic comments are always welcome.)
So for now I'm just going to agree with one of the ranters in last Sunday’s Rants and Raves: Supermarkets who hit up their customers for donations while they're in the checkout line. That’s just too tacky.
You're already paying all-time high food prices, possibly worried about whether you'll still have a job or a home, and on top of that you get “would you like to round that up to the next dollar figure to help out our _________________ fund?”
You can either grit your teeth and say “oh, sure, go ahead,” or you can say no and look like a Grinch in front of twenty or thirty other people standing around.
Stores, you know who you are. Safeway. Enough already.
So for now I'm just going to agree with one of the ranters in last Sunday’s Rants and Raves: Supermarkets who hit up their customers for donations while they're in the checkout line. That’s just too tacky.
You're already paying all-time high food prices, possibly worried about whether you'll still have a job or a home, and on top of that you get “would you like to round that up to the next dollar figure to help out our _________________ fund?”
You can either grit your teeth and say “oh, sure, go ahead,” or you can say no and look like a Grinch in front of twenty or thirty other people standing around.
Stores, you know who you are. Safeway. Enough already.
posted by Tom Harper at 6:29 PM
8 Comments:
Speaking of panhandlers, anyone noticed all the homeless juiceheads around town lately?
It really is panhandling, now that you mention it. Safeway has been doing that every time I have been in there for quite a while now.
In spite of being disabled and having had no income for over three years, and struggling to live on a very thin shoestring, I still feel the twinge of guilt that I "should be rounding it up to the next dollar".
People ought not to be subjected to that.
I have no problem saying "NO."
Next time they ask ya, ask if you could have your bill LOWERED to the nearest dollar (say your total is $15.53...lowered to $15) and they can have have the 53 cents! LOL!!
And when did breast cancer awareness month become so commercial? I walk through the aisles and there are all these pink boxes and plastic cartons. It's getting as bad as Christmas. Next thing we know, there'll be breast cancer awareness month light-up decorations.
Yeah!!!!
Does anyone know of a "buying club" in Port Angeles? Seems with the high costs of food that one could/should be organized.
(It's where you get together, buy in bulk, divide it up, and pass the savings along to all the members.)
I refuse to shop at Safeway, and have been there MAYBE once every month or so (when other places are closed). I don't miss them at all. They're doing a lot more screwy stuff than begging at checkout....
just say NO....it's easy.
Plus it's good practice for other parts of your life.
And, who cares what the other 20 people behind you THINK....chances are they aren't thinking anything, much less care what you are doing, so stop being so self absorbed
Check your receipt before you leave the store...in one week both Safeway and Wal Mart charged me TWICE for an item!
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