"I don't mind not having to walk around a SA bellringer."
I agree. Ages ago I worked retail in a mall and had to listen to that mf'ing bell all day long out the front of the shop. The only thing worse than that stupid bell was the live chamber quartet playing a 24 hour marathon of Pachelbel's Canon in D major - a piece I used to love and now equate with burning in the lake of fire.
Bwahahha...my first job was as candy girl at the mall movie theater. For years I could not STAND the smell of popcorn and that gawdawful fake butter! Blech!
I will go to a place that has the Salvation Army instead of a place that doesn't. The Salvation Army has helped a lot of people and is a good solid old charity. The times I have walked by one and dind't put money in the bucket, the bell ringer is just as nice and friendly as the times I do put money in. People who are put off by the Salvation Army outside a business, have a personal problem and a guilty conscience maybe. They do MUCH good and no harm.