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I’d consider that a donation to the grocery store and worthwhile. Those are some of the worst, lowest paying jobs. People treat retail workers horribly and grocery is where everybody goes. And grocery is known for awful margins.

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Don't kid yourself. Grocery store executives are doing just fine for themselves. Donating does not make life any better for the front line workers.

If you want to help, support your local independent stores and avoid the chains. I know that's not practical for everyone and can be more expensive but better conditions for workers doesn't come cheap.


"better conditions for workers doesn't come cheap."

Unless you take them out of the bloated salaries and perks of upper management...


Even for the millions-paid CEOs it doesn't end up much when divided out among all the workers.

You can do much more for retail workers as a customer by not being an ass and by doing things like putting things back where you found them instead of leaving eggs in amongst the produce, etc.


Huh? This is when you go to the grocery story and at checkout they ask if you want to donate to the Red Cross or St Judes Hospital for Children or some other large well known charity. This isn't a donation to the employees, although I've seen tip jars you could use to tip the folk who bag your groceries if you'd like.

Thankfully, it appears, according to another responder that they're not taking chunks of money out of these donations and they're getting to the charities.




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