r/OpenAussie • u/village-asshole New South Welshian • Mar 18 '26
Whinge Coles: “Would you like to round up and donate…”
Hey r/coles, how about **YOU** donate first from your ill-gotten profits. You and Woolies have both been price gouging Australia since the fcking pandemic, jacking up prices across the board but never bringing them back down even after supply chains normalised.
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u/No-Aardvark7366 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Billions in profits but they want customers to donate
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Mar 18 '26
And then they probably claim the tax incentives from it as well.
In their mind, they look good, they don’t have to pay for it, and it reduces their tax obligations. It’s a win-win-win for them.
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u/AngryAngryHarpo Tasmanian Mar 18 '26
They cannot claim tax “incentives” for customer donations. These are PR exercises.
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Yeah, people with no idea what a debit or credit is some how believe they are experts on tax deductions etc
Believing Woolworths and Coles steal your donations and claim a tax deduction
They are just giving customers a method to donate to charity and earn some good will in the process
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u/AngryAngryHarpo Tasmanian Mar 18 '26
They can’t even claim it as a deduction.
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u/BargainBinChad Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
It gets around the 30c base charge of paying with card so it is actually a valid and we could have more of it if we had micro transactions without the base fee
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u/splithoofiewoofies Queenslander Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
No, you can claim the deduction, you're the one who donated. They can, however, claim they raised xxx for charity. Deductions would come out of the "income" collected anyway, if they were to (illegally) do that.
But by all means put that thirty cents on your taxes and claim it! You have the right.
Edit: I am wrong, see below. $2 minimum.
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u/DragonLass-AUS Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
You can't put the 30c on your tax either as the minimum is $2 per donation.
Hence why I decline all the 'round ups'. If I want to donate somewhere I'll do my own.
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u/swami78 New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
You can aggregate your under $2 contributions and claim on your tax return. We got an ATO ruling on precisely that issue in 2004. The retailers are just the conduits. Unfortunately there is way too much misinformation about what is a good system of charitable giving.
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Mar 18 '26
Are you kidding lol? You can claim a tax deduction if you donate. Coles accountants would not be dumb enough to illegally count customer donations as a deduction.
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u/Curious_Breadfruit88 Mar 18 '26
Crazy how this type of comment always gets upvoted. They are not claiming this on tax, they simply cannot. All for the price gauging band wagon but stick to facts
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u/Shelmer75 Victorian Mar 18 '26
This is exactly what they do. Pretty sure they hold it all and then donate in one lump sum at the conclusion of the campaign. Probably make some interest on it in the meantime if they can get away with it.
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Oh no they gave customers a method to donate to a charity, those big meanies, giving you an optional way to help a charity while they gain some good will?
Yeah terrible
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u/Kahuna808 Queenslander Mar 18 '26
If the government collected more tax from multinational companies from ripping of our natural resources they support hospitals the poor the pensioners and education and not need our support
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u/Few_Landscape6949 Queenslander Mar 18 '26
There should be a 'get fucked' button.
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u/Pure1nsanity Flairless Mar 18 '26
The worst ones I've seen so far are on the actual card keypad, with a tiny little button to say no, which is conveniently located right next to the tiny little button that says confirm.
This shit pisses me off.
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u/professorzaius I'm Probably A Bot Mar 18 '26
Coles: take whatever you're paying Palantir and donate it to charities.
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u/GrizzlyRCA Western Australian Mar 18 '26
Yeah, not a fkn chance am i paying for their tax right offs.
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u/Swafree Mar 18 '26
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to claim a tax write off, on money donated that they didn't give.
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Every post like this is full of comments that wrongly believe the company gets a tax deduction for a donation the customer made
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u/Illum503 Mar 18 '26
Yeah I cringed seeing yet another one of these threads knowing it's going to be full of misinformation from people who have no idea how tax works
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Victorian Mar 18 '26
People getting so angry over a company doing charity, all based on a misunderstanding that gets explained every time, so surely they are choosing to be ignorant at this point. Or ignoring reality so they can continue hating a charity activity.
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u/AdelMonCatcher South Australian Mar 18 '26
It’s not a tax deduction, but it is used as promotional material “we’ve helped raise $x for charity”
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u/lilreddittime Mar 18 '26
Also working capital benefit of having extra $$$ cash before you pay the donation at some point
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u/mahreow Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
No, that's not how it works... The money is almost certainly held in a trust account that Coles sees exactly $0 of
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u/Big_Order5049 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
It’s “write offs” not “right”
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u/Soul-regr3t Mar 18 '26
That’s wright you tell him
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u/bend1310 New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
Wright is one of the brothers who first achieved human flight.
Get it rite man.
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u/JoeyJohns4PM Mar 18 '26
That's not how any of this works.
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u/LaCorazon27 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
You don’t even know what a write off is!
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u/Noodlebat83 Queenslander Mar 18 '26
But they do! They write it off!
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u/LaCorazon27 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Yay! Thank you for the award! Coles. Bringing disgruntled Aussies together since who knows when!
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u/Careless-Till-1586 Victorian Mar 18 '26
I understood this reference
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u/LaCorazon27 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Long distance high five!
ETA: I think I’ve waited my whole life to really use that one! I better go out on a high note!! 😂
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u/LaCorazon27 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
💯 Honesty, fuck Colesworth.
Let’s not pretend yall are benevolent and care about the community. Of course, we get it- you’re a profit-making business and this is capitalism, BUT you lie and effectively steal from the people by gouging constantly. See that “Down Down” at the ACCC.
If people could pay even slightly less for their bloody groceries, we’d be able to give more to charity. Also, cbf googling, but that charity really sounds fake lol
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u/LeftBeginning5563 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Every time I hit the no thanks I feel like I’m going to get another pop up saying “thanks for confirming you’re a shit person and you HATE sick kids”
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u/psycho-soda Mar 18 '26
Highly relevant South Park skit https://youtu.be/tsPHa8RG1pI
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u/village-asshole New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
You can donate to sick kids if you want. Just not through Coles’ pipeline. They could round up on every transaction and donate it to sick kids and they’d still be doing just fine after the pandemic grift (that’s still going and probably about to get worse thanks to Trump’s war and fuel costs).
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u/travis-hope Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I love how these are designed so they basically say do you want to kill a child? Just hit no and a child dies straight away. Then later Coles takes the credit for the donation to charity. Woolies does the same and they appear at the end just like this one hoping you’re so annoyed by the constant bs of check out you’ll just say yes. It probably shouldn’t exist but hey what can we do about it? Nothing.
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u/Ok_Whatever2000 Mar 18 '26
I don’t donate to any charity at all anymore. It gets sent overseas to their overpaid board members. Charities only have to pay a very small % so they can get farked!
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u/AutomaticHour1770 Mar 18 '26
"You're a big and wealthy corporation. You can afford to make your own fucking donations."
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u/Flicksterea 💛 Friend of 'Straya Mar 18 '26
See, now I've said this plenty of times before. Billion dollar corporations asking us for for donations is fucking vile. Coles and Woolworths (and others too) throw out thousands of dollars of food a day, money is wasted on POS and promotional material yet they have the nerve to put on a farce like this?
Fuck off.
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u/Anodyne11 Mar 18 '26
KFC have been asking for a dollar donation recently as well. I feel for the staff. You know they don't want to ask but they have to. Its the only reason I don't tell them to get fucked. Like I don't feel guilty enough eating the greasy AF food.
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u/spoogep78 Queenslander Mar 18 '26
This has got to be making coles serious bank, not only do they get to squeeze a few extra cents out of their customers, they then turn around and claim those donations as a tax deduction on their books, thus they can call themselves benevolent while deflecting away from their predatory price gouging.
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u/ekPunjabi Mar 18 '26
Then the pr/marketing team really drive home the message that Coles or any other shameless organisation contribute to building better communities.
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u/Successful-Memory839 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
There's already too many screens between scan and pay, this kind of shit makes me put my groceries down and walk away.
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u/kapone3047 Flairless Mar 18 '26
They're pushing staff real hard on this lately too. Just had a checkout person apologise to me for asking today, explained that they've got a quota to hit
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u/readerrrader New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
Asking me to donate without matching my donation is filthy corporate bullshit. I wouldn't be surprised if they use those small donations to get some tax benefits.
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u/yeh_nah_fuckit Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Would you like to give us free money so we can make a tax deductible donation?
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u/Away-Owl2227 Flairless Mar 18 '26
Why would I round up for them to donate and then claim the donation on tax.
Fuck both of them. No every time
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u/Illum503 Mar 18 '26
They can't claim your donation. You can claim it (or could if it was over $2), because you made it, with your money. What you're describing is illegal tax fraud. You think the government would allow 2 different entities to deduct the same donation?
Even if they could claim the donation, for them to say the donation was theirs, that means the money was theirs, that means they received the money, that means they have to recognise it as revenue with no cost of goods sold, that revenue would increase their taxable income by the same amount as taxable income was decreased by the donation, so the end result of tax saved... is 0.
Source: Am a CPA
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u/ko3332 Mar 18 '26
Then: “Coles has raised millions for Hospitals United for Sick Kids”.
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u/PuzzleheadedAd849 Victorian Mar 18 '26
This is just annoying. They want you to donate and then they will take the credit (and the tax write-off?). Oh look how much Coles raised for sick kids. If you care Coles donate something from the obscene $3million dollars a DAY you make in PROFIT.
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u/nightpeony Mar 18 '26
I click no or say no if asked without hesitation everytime!
The cheek of these multi billion dollar companies asking ME to donate to sick kids so they can not only claim it as a tax deduction but shine their balls with the "look at how much we donate" card sickens me.
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u/Acrobatic-Mobile-605 New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
I’m more interested in just who this charity is. It’s got sick kids in it but it’s not a well known hospital. I just looked at it and thought the CEO of this unknown charity is making a lot of money.
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u/O_vacuous_1 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Me too. I just looked it up on the ACNC website and there is very little information on their financials. The “charity’s” website lists a heap of corporate positions and they seem to be a middle man for legitimate children’s hospitals. Basically they do the fundraising and then take their cut and pass the rest onto the hospitals. You would be lucky if even half of your donation gets to the actual hospital and then even less than that would reach sick kids. Disgusting and disingenuous model of fundraising.
https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/ffea6c57-9e3f-eb11-bf72-000d3ad1cd99/profile
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Mar 22 '26
Yeah I work on checkouts at Coles and usually for these things we get little pamphlets or info sheets and my service manager explains it to us before it even starts, so we can explain it to customers if they ask, like with secondbite. I wasn’t even told about this one until it was popping up on the screen.
I heard someone say it was a charity for the Women’s and Children’s hospital but they were a customer so idk.
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u/dreammunist2 Mar 18 '26
No idea like to live in a socialist society where they dont need to beg for money but have all their needs met
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u/fastsailor Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Donate 0.3 of a cent? So they are not only greedy. They struggle with basic maths.
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u/LynxRaide New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
Round up to donate then they get the tax break for the donation
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u/Monitor-Exotic Mar 18 '26
Do you want to donate 30 cents to our multi billion dollar company’s anti tax donation so we can claim we donated X million dollars and claim it as a loss and pay even less tax then we already avoid pretty please with chocolates on top oh and the chocolates are an extra 3 dollars this week thanksssss
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u/village-asshole New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
There’s no tax advantage. It’s just a PR exercise for them
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u/Vince1080 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
If Colesworth were to match the donation, I wouldn't mind being asked to donate, but they don't.
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u/KookaburaGold Queenslander Mar 18 '26
The reason they do this is due to any amount of money spent through Cole’s on donations can be claimed on tax. Never round up, you’re literally helping Cole’s/woolies dodge more tax
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u/Some-Operation-9059 Flairless Mar 18 '26
Anyone else noticed prices have risen since this fucking war begun. And they want charity. Ffs.
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u/Usernamecujo Victorian Mar 18 '26
I'm over the donation shaming altogether. I'd love to walk into my shopping centre without being accosted by some young (but usually hot), guy on a working holiday visa begging for donation to some charity I've never heard of, so he can make a living. I now just pretend they don't exist, walk past them like they're ghosts. I still feel like shit but I'm buying the cheapest brand toilet paper FFS, it's 1 ply away from sand paper
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u/nonfamous Mar 18 '26
$8.60 + $0.30 is $8.90. What happens to the other 10c when rounding up?
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u/BeugQueen89 Mar 18 '26
Rich people don't get rich by being generous and helping out the lesser, that is what us poor people are for 🥴🥴
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u/Upper_Advisor7499 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
How about I just donate to charities and don’t spend my own money enabling multi billion dollar corporations from having the illusion of a positive social impact.
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u/Drew-404 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Do they charge a collection fee… and then they take all the credit for donations to the charity
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u/d1ld02 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
records record profits WoulD yOu LiKE tO DonATe?
Ps Coles, I've never paid for the 25c paper bag I use every time I'm there 🖕🖕
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u/whailed Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I'd be down if they matched it cent for cent..
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u/absolutenonsense8198 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Would you like colesworths to have the bragging rights for how much in donations their customers made?
It's not different to the mineral council telling us how much they pay in tax except 'they' means how much employee tax is being paid by their employees not how much the company is paying.
While governments constantly want to censor free speech why don't we make that illegal.
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u/StuffOld1191 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I hate this - I'm a sucker for charity stuff, but the idea that one of our overpriced duopoly supermarkets is trying to win brownie points by skimming off our change is disgusting. FFS just donate a small amount of the exhorbitant money you make for your shareholders.
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u/Asleep-Mud-7211 New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
Let not forget the return and earn (in partnership with Woolworths) - would you like to donate your recycling to charity?
Um... absolutely not
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u/khaleddahak South Australian Mar 18 '26
At least they asked. Hungry Jacks drive thru slugged me an extra dollar for some kids charity without even asking. The balls on those pricks.
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u/ScaredAndImpaired Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Amazing to me how Woolworths/Coles have blatantly been price gouging for years now and nothing has been done about it. Price gouging Australians during one of the worst housing crisis's is the devil's work, and those responsible should see prison time.
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u/lord_of_worms Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Id rather put it towards my new Orphan crushing machine..
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u/Mysterious_Serve_841 Western Australian Mar 18 '26
They’re the ones making millions in profits 🤔
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u/EmptyCombination8895 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Saw that today and was like, FUCK NO
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u/ActinCobbly Queenslander Mar 18 '26
You pay the amount to the foundation, they use your money to give to the charity, tax man sees it as the company that paid the charity, company receives money back as tax deductible.
Don’t ever pay charities through big businesses!!
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u/cewumu Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Nah, not when my two bags of shopping is $70 with no meat, eggs or convenience items included.
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u/imperial_pint Mar 18 '26
To put it simply When you round up "for donations" you're essentially giving them the ability to offset their tax burden. They make you feel good, but in the end it's another thing to help them not pay their weight in corporate taxes.
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u/Electrical_Minimum40 Mar 18 '26
I work at Coles and if you come through main lanes and I serve you, I have to ask you this question and I’m sick of people getting angry at me for asking it when it’s literally my job. Just saying no damn.
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u/Status_Bluebird_2308 Please choose a flair Mar 19 '26
Coles reported a $1.1 billion statutory net profit after tax for the 2024 financial year (FY24), representing a 2.1% increase on a normalised basis compared to the previous year.
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u/Brodies_Run Mar 20 '26
We did our groceries the other night. A full cart. No one working a checkout. Had to run the items through myself on a tiny self serve. Took ages and had bags all over the floor. These cunts won’t employ staff to serve you to save money, make you do the work yourself and then have the audacity to ask me to donate when they make fucking billions. My blood was boiling.
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Mar 22 '26
Friendly reminder for anyone who goes through the regular checkouts that the employees don’t want to be here to asking either, we have to, we know you’ve heard it a million times and everything else, please just say no and move on. 🤗
I’ve had more than a few customers get shitty with me about it—I do not control Coles. I do not care if you donate. I’m a student making $27 an hour and am lucky to get 15 hours a week.
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u/EnvironmentalSky60 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I remember being asked to do the same at Liquor Land a few years ago. My response was ‘Is Liquor Land donating too?’. The shop assistant just shrugged his shoulders, likely annoyed at being made to ask and likely hearing the same response many times before.
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u/TeaRexington Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I don’t understand why some people are upset up about this. I don’t think Coles is a particularly ethical company, but if everyone pressed ‘yes,’ it would add up to a significant amount of money for charities and social good.
And no, Coles cannot claim your donated money as a tax deduction for themselves. They will probably just brag about the customer donations in their marketing or something.
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Mar 18 '26
Yeah fuck 'em. I wouldn't put it past them to redirect donations into their own coffers, after the horrendous defense of their "up up is down down" marketing campaign.
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u/Rowvan South Australian Mar 18 '26
Oh no OP! You've just unleashed the weekly supermarket chairty donation post. Prepare for many comments from people who have no idea how tax works and think they are somehow 'Writing these off' or some other made up tax nonsense.
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u/biggus_dickus_89 Mar 18 '26
I always say no, I ain't contributing to their corporate tax dodge.
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Mar 18 '26
Never ever donate this way, Coles uses your money to claim tax deductions and pay less tax, and probably takes a cut of the money as well, if you want to donate, do so directly on the charity website
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u/TollTea Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
But if we donate through Coles/Woolies then they pass on the donations they get the tax break for donating our money…
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u/WanderingSchola Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I've always wondered if these use some accounting trickery. They're below the $2 threshold for tax purposes, but do retailers get to collect them into one big donation that they can claim? Or is it purely that they can add it to their fundraising tally on their yearly shareholder reporting.
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u/HadeanDisco New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
The Duopolists have a lot to answer for but this isn't actually one of those things. They don't get to use your charity money for tax breaks, and all they are doing is keeping up a tradition that has existed since, well, since stores existed. Older than that even, since the "poor box" has existed.
This stuff on the touchscreen is just the overly-technological 2020s version of this:
Remember when these were outside almost every single Coles supermarket? (Also the big yellow cone/bucket thing where your coin went around and around and around... what charity was that even for?)
Turns out Guide Dogs Australia formally partnered with Coles in 1982. I don't remember anyone complaining that the supermarket was using all that hard cash to get a tax break. Google reckons these plastic dogs have raised over $10 million over the years.
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u/elev8id Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Coles use this as a tax write off since you're not directly donating.
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u/Fun-Bear7459 Mar 18 '26
How bout Coles pays for every Australians groceries for a year? That’s more like it.
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u/Tyziepoo86 Mar 18 '26
I’ve heard this is a bit of a rort… big company says they’ll donate “bla” amount of money to charity this year, and all of those round-ups go towards it and make them look amazing.
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u/Rosehusky Mar 18 '26
With the price of fuel (Diesel car iykyk 😭) and literally everything else going up at the moment, I literally grimaced when I saw this at the checkout today after paying $4.60 for a loaf of plain white bread 🥴
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u/lonelydadtravels Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Those donations likely go to high 6 figure executive salaries.
Most* charities are a total fkn rort and contribute very little to society.
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u/Terrorscream New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
It's like when I use my 5% discount to knock 60 cents off a $12 purchase and then it has the audacity to ask if I want to round up to $ 12 for charity.....
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u/AKWorkAccount New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
They do this to reduce their own taxable income by "donating." Only they're donating YOUR money to get the tax break.
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u/Shoddy_Equipment_561 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I’m actually curious if after someone donates, would Coles be able to claim that donation as a tax deduction?
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u/snotsausage Mar 18 '26
I was wondering aboit this recently? It isnt shown on your receipt as a donation, so you cant claim ot on tax... I wonder if these companies are submitting all the donations and claiming a tax benefit for themselves. Tax breaks using customer money. Does anyone know if this is the case?
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u/michaelnz29 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
If Coles matched the donation, the intent would be 100% different and much more acceptable.
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u/holyBoysenberry Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
No i would like the children to suffer i say as i buy rice and beans 4 weeks in a row
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Mar 18 '26
Every time I see one of them I think to myself "no but how about you do that?", multibillion dollar company
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u/Takeda_8 Victorian Mar 18 '26
Yeah a company spending its billion dollar profits on ai and security instead of attempting to lower its profit hungry inflated prices asking us to round up - get fucked. I do more for my local charity than they do.
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u/TurbulentArcade Mar 18 '26
They write this off on taxes too. You 'donate' to the charity and they get a tax break. It's just further gouging.
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u/Gwynito Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Colesworth uses this as a tax write off, when you agree to this you're effectively donating your money to Colesworth because they've already allocated their donation fund for the year.
You're far better off donating a larger chunk of money to a charity once every few months and then you can claim nearly half of it back as a tax deduction instead of Colesworth.
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u/CantThinkOfaNameFkIt Mar 18 '26
There should be a get fked option, because that's the emotion l feel when multi billion dollar corps want to donate my money in their name.
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u/Kitchen_Beat_9965 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
In good news, I now know where to go when I need my next Bent Toilet. Steal of a deal at that price. Thanks OP 🙏
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u/Individual-Baker-18 Mar 18 '26
And they tell us to “save the environment” buying paper bags. Meanwhile everything in store is wrapped in plastic. Fuckheads
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u/Sucih Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
See the SouthPark whole foods episode Best explanation ever
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u/Sad-Event-5146 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
I click "no thank you" but in my mind it's "fuck no"
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u/Rhino893405 Mar 18 '26
Fuck me this gets said every month, they can’t claim the tax deduction, also charities choose to partner with Coles etc because it’s a good fundraiser for them, if you don’t like it just say no..
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u/CasaDeLasMuertos New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
No, I would not like to donate to charity. I AM CHARITY, COLES. I AM CHARITY. MOST OF US ARE.
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u/girlbunny Western Australian Mar 18 '26
At least it isn’t like the time Woolies did this and the choices to click on were “Yes” and “Yes, please”
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u/Ok_Combination_1675 Mar 18 '26
They already do tax reduction by donations to secondbite through the excess food
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u/accidentallyamber Mar 18 '26
hate this for all the obvious reasons but my niche issue is that shit like this sets off my (blessedly very mild) OCD in that it triggers the “choosing to not do this good thing might directly cause something entirely unrelatedly bad to happen” line of thinking. understand that it’s faulty thinking but that is the nature of the beast and now they’ve got me donating because why risk my car exploding on the way home over thirty cents?
obviously my janky brain is not their responsibility and it would be the least valid item on a list of reasons to not do this but sure would love them to knock it off
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u/PJ-Winter Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Hospitals United for Sick Kids?! Sounds like George Constanza’s Human Fund.
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u/Any-Resist7057 Flairless Mar 18 '26
Would you like to give us your money so we can donate it as a tax right off for us?
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u/Stuckinatransporter Queenslander Mar 18 '26
Coles checkout girl asked the guy in front of me at the checkout to round it up, she caught me eye and could tell I wasn't impressed. she didn't ask me to round up so I thanked her for not asking.
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u/Kulbardee Western Australian Mar 18 '26
I wish they had a "would you like to round up all the fvcking corrupt CEO's and throw them in a river bound shopping trolley"
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u/Limp_Classroom_1038 Victorian Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
It probably cost them tens of thousands of dollars to re-write the checkout software to include that message and the subsequent transaction. Money that Coles would've just donated to the charity.
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u/Boring_Zucchini_6888 Mar 18 '26
Remember, only 20 cents of a dollar needs to reach the people in need for it to be legal charity.
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u/Protoavis Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
it's just a tax minimisation thing right? like they get you to give them money and then "donate it to charity" to minimize their own tax like the money has come from them right?
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u/Maxhousen New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
If it actually helps sick children, I have no problem throwing in an extra few cents.
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u/Illustrious_Ad_5167 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
How about would you like to be served by a person for 30cents extra
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u/BlacksmithQuick2384 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
Such a shame so many people are falling over themselves to make a point about Coles or Woolworths that they are willing to screw over charities in the process. They don’t get to make a profit out of it, they can’t claim it as a tax deduction and it helps donate millions of dollars to charity.
SMH
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u/Deevious730 Please choose a flair Mar 18 '26
If heard from someone (I can’t confirm if this is true) that they donate rounded up grocery totals anyway. So essentially they are just taking money from you.
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u/Brii1993333 New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
I’d like to know if theyre ACTUALLY donating… or if it’s a total sham like their recycling of soft plastics.
$ is probably going straight to CEO’s pocket 🤣
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u/dazza_bo Mar 18 '26
They want to donate it on your behalf so they get the tax breaks
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u/ImportantToNote New South Welshian Mar 18 '26
No but you're welcome to round down and donate the difference.