this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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the legitimate promotions of this sort; and walmart, as big and as greedy as they are, are still most certainly doing this on the 'up and up', the donations are tracked separately and separate from the revenue stream. it just gets passed-through to the charity. no tax deduction shenanigans involved. walmart already has other 'legal' loopholes and accounting tricks to use to lower their tax burden, they don't have to do something blatantly obvious and easy to track that isn't nearly as 'effective' at it.
Regardless of the truth of this - I do not want to participate in the image laundering that the megacorp is then able to do because of the donation of the impoverished masses.
It may not be the case in this specific case, but there have been plenty of corporations getting caught doing exactly this.
I'm not rolling that dice. I'll donate directly thank you very much