I have noticed this is becoming common place in quite a few stores in New Zealand, where you buy something at the checkout, and the counter staff memeber asks you if you want to donate something to a particular charity as part of the transaction. Does anyone else feel annoyed by this sort of thing? It seems to be quite common overseas. It makes me want to avoid physical stores and buy online instead. Some online stores do it to, but when you are buying you aren't surrounded by people in the line who may hear you say that you don't want to give $1 to a certain charity, when you have just spent $100 on something, and I wonder if it is done at a checkout to make you feel guilty if you say you don't want to give anything.
I also don't have anything against people donating to charities, and believe in donating to things like the SPCA and Guide Dogs. But I would want to chose which charity to support on my own, and don't need the help from a store to guide me to their particular charity which they choose to support.