In a message dated 12/15/2008 10:33:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, oakd...@yahoo.com writes:
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: I just spoke with Laurie at the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean She concurred with the Wegmans' executives I spoke with last year: Year-round appeals tend to result in compassion fatigue, and people then tend to ignore the appeals. I thought Wegs was y round. I'll say ok to a $1 or more at checkout based on guilt. - if you buy candy, ice cream or soda (things you really don't need...) We tip more for booze and lousy food. Imagine tipping the food bank 15% of your food order. =============================== Wegs' has posted that their donate-at-checkout service ends around 12/22. I had a go-around with them last year, and vented about it here. But now FoodBank's Laurie has confirmed the compassion fatigue syndrome that Wegs mentioned back then. Everything is a syndrome these days. Some seem bogus to me, like Restless Leg Syndrome which sounds like a drug company marketing invention. But I can identify with compassion fatigue; I first experienced it thanks to Sally Struthers' appeals on late night TV. Now, thanks to Wiki, I learn that I was not alone: "The ironic disparity between her activism for starving children and her own weight gain was parodied" in South Park's Starvin' Marvin episodes. You're right about the guilt thing about unnecessary purchases, so I figure the sting of pointing to the $5 bar code is more humane and a technological improvement over the pain of self-flagellation or the discomfort in wearing a hair shirt in Press Plaza. It's also more effective than saying three Hail Marys. ;-) **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
