Corporations Telling Salvation Army to Stay Away

WorldNow and WAFB ^ | Dec 9, 2005 | Matt Clough

[chemicalman]

They've become as much a holiday tradition as wreaths and egg nog -- the Salvation Army bell ringers you see around town. But Salvation Army officials say it's getting harder and harder to find places to ring their bells, and it is costing them big.

The Salvation Army says it's getting harder each year to find major businesses willing to allow bell ringers to stand outside their business. Over the past few years, Target, Barnes and Noble, Home Depot and Toys R Us have removed bell ringers from their property. All of those stores had a large customer base willing to drop change into a big red kettle. Nationwide, that's a lot of change that Salvation Army is no longer receiving.

"It's a little more difficult this year," admitted Maj. Mark Satterlee, Salvation Army. "We've had more and more corporations that have decided not to allow the Salvation Army to ring in front of their stores this year, and that always makes it a little more difficult at the local level."

[trickyricky]

After college, my first employer reqired each employee give his/her "fair share" to the United Way.

The United Way supports abortion, and homosexual groups.
If you support murder and sexual perversion, support the United Way.

[ZULU]

I don't understand this.

I thought malls couldn't stop people from handing out flyers under free speech.

So why can they do this?

If any business blocks the Salvation Amry, they should be PICKETED and BOYCOTTED.

That's the ONLY language these cowardly S.O.B.s understand.

It worked with "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry CHristmas".

[Luke21]

Walgreens allows the bell ringers.

[evad]

As does SAMs