Please tell me I am not the only person getting pissed off with the “fleecing of the shoppers” at local grocery stores. I am sick of snot nose kids and teens standing at the end of the checkout with their money receptacles expecting the haggard shopper to just drop their money in to said receptacle. And what you get for it? NOTHING. They don’t pack your groceries, they don’t offer to help you with carrying them to your car, they don’t even smile or acknowledge you unless they hear the sweet ka-ching of coins on coins …
Don’t get me wrong; I fully support children’s fundraising activities and am well known for buying whatever your kid is selling to finance their school trip. sports team or whatever. BUT for the love of fuck, EARN it! Do something, sell something, put on a show – don’t just fucking stand there at the end of the checkout and expect handouts. Society is gearing these kids to expect things to be handed to them – panhandlers in training. Whatever happened to working to earn what you want … I worry about the future of the human race …End of rant … —Sick and tired of the fleecing
This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2013.
id rather tip my favourite cashiers, i just smile and carry on, ignore it
This is awful. I am sure they don’t want to be there as much as you don’t want them there but they are doing what they can to fundraise for whatever cause, whether it be a charitable organization or a school trip or whatever. I mean they should probably at least be smiling– but to compare your real-life job to a non-optional fundraising event is unfair. At least these kids are doing something with their lives and getting motivated to do so. I don’t see any bitches on here about beggar’s who: 1. are rude and sometimes creepy when you walk away; 2. how none of them work for their earnings; 3. how they don’t deserve it, even though a lot of them are able to get a job because the resources ARE available in Halifax and not to mention that they are actually old enough to get jobs.
you must be heartless and had your parents pay for everything you should’ve fundraised as a child.
Kids that collect for bogus causes aside (Because this apparently does happen sometimes), in terms of the kids who are collecting for things that DO exist… Ok… you may be far enough away from childhood to have forgotten it, op but I am not. I remember going door to door selling candy. Getting sponsorships for read-a-thons and any quantity of humiliating nonsense. I have never panhandled in my life and if I had, I doubt that would have been the inciting incident that drove me to the streets. I mean can you imagine.. “Gee whiz… that read-a-thon sure snagged me enough money! I think i’ll take up a crack-a-thon and make that my living, boy howdy. Because this one time when i was 10, I earned 25 bucks in four and a half weeks! Yup. Panhandling sure seems like the way to go from here onward.”
ConVINcing.
Kids CAN’T earn money easily. They need parents’ permission to just get a fucking paper route these days. You’re not talking to 30-somethings asking for a handout. You’re talking to CHILDREN trying to raise money for SOCCER.
I’m all for tough love op. Ask anyone here. But this is just ridiculous.
If you being a grinch to cute children and feeling even slightly guilty about it is what you call fleecing, then you need to work on your callousness skills.
Or empathy. You know. Whatever is easier for you.
It’s your choice, give money or don’t give money. If you don’t want these kids to get something for nothing, give them nothing. It’s usually a fund-raiser for their school as opposed to going in their pocket. Do you really want them putting a four litre jug of milk on top of your bread?
Use the self scanners and bag your own stuff?
Well, if they were cute kids as scissors lauded to, I may give a bit of change. However, if they’re ugly kids, fuck that!
I’m with Nukka on this one. Ugly kids shouldn’t be anywhere near your food.
This is for ‘Party Summer’ …
For the record, I grew up dirt poor, have been on my own since I was 16, and have never had anything handed to me in my life. I put myself through College to become a Registered Nurse and I put a loved one through school to become a Chef. I have learned that nothing feels as good as being able to pay your own way and know that when all is said and done, that hard work builds character. I volunteer with several community based services and work 2 jobs. I love being a nurse and I love being able to work to help people who are often at their worst. I firmly believe in the “Teach a man to fish” tenet.
If this makes me a cruel and heartless person, well, hand me my trophy … I’ll put it up next to the collection of cards and letters I have from people I have helped along the way.
Thanks Hoist. I just got back from Freshco and sure enough, they were ugly kids looking for my dollars. I would have looked past their ugliness and made a donation, because its the season, but one of them had their ugly parent with them. That sealed the deal for me. I’d rather buy grocery bags for five cents each from the clerk because guess what, she wasn’t ugly.
The homely are people too.
Ugly Partents?! That’s just unforgivable. It’s like they knew what they were doing and just went ahead anyway. DISGUSTING.
I have kids. I do their fundraising cause I’m not letting my 6 year old go door to door. But those kids should be trying to help in some way. But on the other hand I’m sure the store has some rules or something saying the kids can’t pack or do anything because of liability issues. What happen to the good old days of selling chocolate bars outside the NSLC. Lol.
Two ugly parents make a nice looking baby.
Two nice looking parents make an ugly baby.
Man, did I ever hate going out on apple day as a kid…
um, I don’t think those children are allowed to handle your groceries. I believe it is corporate policy to disallow anyone but those trained on cash to put groceries in bags. In other words chicken packed with fresh vegetables is just plain dangerous.
I fully support children’s fundraising activities and am well known for buying whatever your kid is selling to finance their school trip. sports team or whatever.
You actually fall for that crap? You’re paying for these kids to go on vacation.