transcription: nothing is stopping you from placing food you didnt pay for in donation bins at your local frocery store, you didnt steal anything, you just moved it, nothing left their property :3 help feed you local homeless and needy~

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      You do realize that the products you see in said bins are, essentially “seed money” for the tip cups the Donation Boxes actually are… Yes?

      (Don’t even get me started on tip culture and wage theft, just know there’s a correlation here.)

      The corps’ all contract with whatever charity before any of that goes live. They agree on a target sum (often tiered) and launch a planned event to generate a percentage of that, hopefully more. From the community. Not through petitioning the local governing bodies, either, no. They pass those savings directly onto the customer en masse and they cherry it with a dollop of guilt. Mmm. So good.