For the uninitiated, this is a chain of bookstores across Canada. I remember them as being one of the first places where people would ask you to donate a dollar at checkout. Their charity was framed as helping put books in schools, a cause that at first glance you can’t really find fault with.
Well, turns out their program only allowed for the purchase of books at full retail price from themselves. So the ‘charity’ was literally buying books at full markup and profits. Supposedly it was also quite difficult for schools to actually qualify as well.
So when they asked you to ‘donate a dollar’ they were really just asking for an extra dollar for themselves.
Corporations cant use donations for their taxes. They are merely a collection point. What they benfit is the positive PR “they are helping the community” while plundering that community for every cent.
Oh, and their friends are probably making a lot of money from their “non-profit charity”.
But why wouldn’t you want to help big corporation with their tax returns, you heartless bastard.
Chapters/Indigo radicalized me.
For the uninitiated, this is a chain of bookstores across Canada. I remember them as being one of the first places where people would ask you to donate a dollar at checkout. Their charity was framed as helping put books in schools, a cause that at first glance you can’t really find fault with.
Well, turns out their program only allowed for the purchase of books at full retail price from themselves. So the ‘charity’ was literally buying books at full markup and profits. Supposedly it was also quite difficult for schools to actually qualify as well.
So when they asked you to ‘donate a dollar’ they were really just asking for an extra dollar for themselves.
Corporations cant use donations for their taxes. They are merely a collection point. What they benfit is the positive PR “they are helping the community” while plundering that community for every cent.
Oh, and their friends are probably making a lot of money from their “non-profit charity”.