Woman selling candy to me in Bed Bath and Beyond? Isn't that just wrong?

I was in Bed Bath and Beyond a while back, and a woman stopped me and wanted me to buy a king-sized bag of M%26amp;Ms for a dollar. She was just wandering around with a box of them, like the kind people can get at Sam's Club or whatever.





Anyways, I asked her why and she said she was trying to help her daughter (who was nowhere in sight) raise money for the youth group at their church. I asked her what church, and she gave some generic name that I didn't recognize but there's lots of churches here so it could be real.








Anyways, I thought it was so strange- why would she be selling FOR her daughter? Where was her daughter? Why in BB%26amp;B? And why didn't the BB%26amp;B worker who was standing right by us say something to her? It was irritating.





Anyways, I've been thinking about these salesy things lately as you might have noticed, and I remembered this.





Doesn't this break some sort of rule? Would you ever do that, even if it WAS for a real charity?Woman selling candy to me in Bed Bath and Beyond? Isn't that just wrong?
What I would think:





';Excuse me, but I am shopping at Bed, bath and beyond, not Candy for More Money Shop and where is your daughter and why isn't she doing it herself??? Please take your candy to eBay or somewhere else, What am i supposed to do here, tape a No Solicitations on my butt?';





What I would say: ';No......uh, thanks....';------backing away......Woman selling candy to me in Bed Bath and Beyond? Isn't that just wrong?
There is probably a store policy about soliciting- she should not have been asking customers to buy stuff from her. The store manager should have asked her to leave.





And, it is probably against mall policy, too. (if you were in a mall).





Sometimes, stores will allow charities to sell goods OUTSIDE the store as long as they don't bother customers.
Next time, if you don't feel it's legit, just say ';No, Thank you'; and walk away. If you feel it's wrong and want to do something about it then you can take it up to the store's manager.
Rule #1: Don't talk to strangers.


Rule #2: Just say 'No'.


which brings me to...


Rule #3: Don't eat candy from strangers; you don't know what could be in it!
You should have said no thank-you, because she was probably trying to get money for herself.


If you thought it was fake, just walk away, after saying no thankyou.
My opinion--YES it is wrong.
It sure sounds like a scam to me.


I would have insisted to see the manager.
Yeah - it WAS a scam and you should STILL report it to the manager. Most places DO NOT allow other sorts of solicitation in their stores/businesses....otherwise customers will be turned off from going there....BBB is a major chain and NO exception. The sales clerk is at fault and should have told her it was disallowed. But she was probably some lazy *** punk herself so she stood there and did nothing, probably reading some trash novel.





The same thing happened to me when I was in Florida. Some kid allegedly from some church that was NOWHERE near where we were was trying to get us to make ';donations';......
That woman was not practicing legal selling... she should have had to get a license in order to sell in a place like that.





I think people can ask for donations for their product which doesn't need to be taxed. But selling stuff for fundraising is not as easy as it used to be.





My son went on a trip to Washington D.C. with his class and he had to raise hundreds of dollars. As his mother, I did all I could to help him out. Fundraising is more difficult all the time.
Most stores, including mine, have a ';no solicitation'; policy. When people solicit inside other business', whether it's for church or charity, it hurts their business pretty bad. It hurts their Average Transaction (AT), Units Per Transaction (UPT), and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)





When customers come inside store premises, they are expected to buy something. It's ok if they come inside to look as well. However if someone comes in with no intention of purchasing anything, the store loses money. If a customer were to buy a piece of candy from the vendor, that dollar could have gone toward a purchase in the store, increasing store profit. Because it didn't, the store lost a sale.





Tell a sales associate or manager next time you see that sort of thing. I would have told the woman that she cannot sell in our store and if she wanted to sell her candy, she'd have to go outside.