This is a fucking insult
Asking for a tip? Just tip the machine over!
I’m in the US so I tip people who rely on tips to make it by in this capitalist dystopia, like waitstaff. That’s fucking it. Anyone else asking for a tip can get rekt.
Why is this even an issue? Are people actually tipping everyone now? Stop it! Don’t let people manipulate you and keep your money.
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I would interpret this to mean this established company is underpaying staff to maximize profits. My tips, at best, would mitigate that cruelty by a tiny bit, assuming management isn’t stealing the tips.
It means this business needs to fail, and its workers need to unionize.
The machines should tip the customer for doing job well. After all, it’s him doing the work cashier typically does.
This is why every item gets it’s own bag when I’m using self checkout (the bags are useful to me). They gotta pay some kind of tax for my service
they might not know it but they do tip me
Great work me! Here you go bud.
scans two bags of cheese together
Grate work m8.
meat is also cheese.
This is like when fast food places ask if you want to round your order up to the next dollar to donate to x cause.
Like, no, Taco Bell, I don’t want to pay you so you can turn around and get credit (both in terms of laundering their image, and for tax purposes) for my donation.
let’s hope it trains people to respond “NO” to such nonsense.
I have noticed this that they will try to “round up” your order amount. Why on earth would I ever want to do that? £5.10 to be rounded up to £6??? how about no.
And they will put the button to do that in the same place you just pressed twice to continue, and make it the same colour, but the “don’t round up” will be a smaller button in another place.
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… But we do have one… It’s just very… Minimal.
Minimum should mean minimum amount necessary to live a (dignified) life, not simply the minimum amount.
Let’s call it “livable minimum wage” or this discussion will never end.
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Switzerland doesn’t have a minimum wage either, but the problems aren’t as dire (yet). Several cantons have however now introduced minimum wages and these are inflation adjusted, so a lot more future proof. Also they don’t need to be renegotiated again and again as the law doesn’t expire. I only see them disappear if we get a nationwide solution that replaces the local ones. But I agree with you: They are now set by the legislature and arbitrary and they should be informed with NGO data.
I find it much nicer to use the self checkouts cause I have no issues with telling a machine to fuck off with their donations or tips. I get guilted a bit by the human cashiers and end up tipping or donating, with a machine I instantly hit no.
I’m usually okay with tipping if I have the bread. But donating to some kids hospital or something I always say no. Makes me sound evil but there have been too many scandals with companies not giving the money away
Even if it isn’t an obvious shady thing with the money not getting donated, even if it’s all “above board” as these things go, when you make a donation at a retail checkout counter the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.
I prefer to make my donations directly to charities rather than subsidizing some middleman company’s good karma.
I’ll drink to that
That means you get a discount, right? Right?
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Asking for tips is always an insult.
Please donate to charity to allow this multi billion corporation to earn a reduction on its tax.
That’s not how taxes work.
But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial, in part because some critics insist retailers are taking a tax benefit for their customers’ donations.
The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.
As a customer, the donation will appear on your receipt and you can claim it as a charitable deduction when you file your income tax return.
tl;dr: You are still the one making the donation and eligible for the charitable deduction, not the business through which you donated. Businesses like it because they can say things like “Walmart facilitated donations of $n to agreeable charity in 2023.” It’s a company exploiting your generosity for good press, not for a tax scam.
