Isn’t it more efficient to make a cash donation to, say, the [San Francisco Food Bank](http://www.sffoodbank.org/), who has negotiated bulk rates with food suppliers and can get matching funds and turns 97% of your donation directly into use, than to go buy cheese doodles at Trader Joe’s and let them skim off profits and distribution and packaging costs and send them to [German billionaire Theo Albrecht](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe%27s)?
- Scrooge McChaffee
December 18, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Alex Chaffee says:
(send the profits, that is, not the packaging costs, although TJ’s does do its (un)fair share of that part of the supply chain too)
December 18, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Joe Moore says:
Get your shilling ready to buy the prize turkey for Mr. Cratchit and Tiny Tim in 7 days…
Isn’t it more efficient to make a cash donation to, say, the
[San Francisco Food Bank](http://www.sffoodbank.org/),
who has negotiated bulk rates with food suppliers and can get
matching funds and turns 97% of your donation directly into use, than to go buy cheese doodles at
Trader Joe’s and let them skim off profits and distribution and packaging costs and send them to
[German billionaire Theo Albrecht](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe%27s)?
- Scrooge McChaffee
December 18, 2007 at 8:40 pm
(send the profits, that is, not the packaging costs, although TJ’s does do its (un)fair share of that part of the supply chain too)
December 18, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Get your shilling ready to buy the prize turkey for Mr. Cratchit and Tiny Tim in 7 days…
December 18, 2007 at 9:49 pm