4th Grand Falls Scouts & Venturers2019 World Jamboree and the 2019 European Adventure!

Apr 18th Grocery Bagging – April 19th, 2018

Grocery Bagging at Dominion is always one of our best direct-donation fundraising efforts!  Basically the way it works is that our youth provide a “Good Turn” by bagging groceries, putting away carts, cleaning up, picking up litter (when weather allows), etc.  While this is on the go we have donation cans available to allow Dominion’s customers to donate if they so choose.  Most do decide to donate, and donate a fair bit!

Most youth enjoy grocery bagging, but it is hard work.  While grocery bagging we are effectively representing Dominion, so there are some specific rules and requirements that we need to work with.  First off, youth need to big enough to properly get the job done.  The minimum age is technically 12, but we traditionally allow younger youth to bag as well providing they “look old enough”.  Also, youth will need to have a short training session with the Scouter volunteers at the store to ensure they can bag the groceries in a professional manner.  FORMAL uniforms are requird.  Youth with long hair must have it neatly tied back.  Cell phones are not permitted while bagging, nor are headphones.  Youth may have a sealed bottle of water with them, but may not have any other food or drinks while bagging.  Gum is also not permitted.  Conversation on the lines must be kept appropriate and professional.  Most importantly, every single customer must be greeted in a friendly manor, every single donor must be thanked, and all Dominion staff must be treated with respect.  Our relationship with Dominion is very important to the group, so youth that do not behave professionally or simply cannot do the work effectively will need to leave early.  No warnings will be given for youth who break the rules; they will be sent home immediately.  

Seeing as we now have 33 youth and 9 Scouters traveling for 2019 we will need to build a schedule to prevent having too many youth on hand.  We can accommodate a maximum of 14 youth at a time, but only if they are quite busy.

For youth that are too small to grocery bag, we do need at least one youth at our donation table and this is a GREAT job for the smaller youth.  Also we will likely be able to get outside to pick up litter, which is appropriate for all ages.

UNLIKE USUAL we need you to mark exactly what you are going to work at Dominion.  Each half hour slot will only allow 14 youth to select it.  Please show up for exactly what you request.  If you require a supper break, mark yourself not available for that time (regular breaks will be given for everyone working longer than 2hrs, but if you require longer please schedule it off).  Given the short time line, there will be no schedule made other than exactly what you request on the Doodle Poll.  So no good emailing me for extra hours, please use the poll 🙂

YOUTH – Please mark your shift on Doodle => https://doodle.com/poll/rck7pc8su95nn4vv  (Separate link for Scouters below)

GROCERY BAGGING PROCEEDS

• 80% to be split by those who work based on the numbers of hours worked.  Youth who stay four hours will make twice as much as youth who stay two hours.
• 10% will be donated to the President’s Choice Children’s Charity
• 5% to the youths’ section based on the number of hours worked per section.
• 5% to be split between Group Committee and the Camping Equipment fund

FUTURE DATES

Please mark on your calendar that we will also be grocery bagging on June 28th

SCOUTERS

We can accommodate up to five Scouters at a time, and we need a minimum of three.  For now, this is only open to the eight Scouters attending Europe and our WJ Scouter, but if there are still shifts available as of 11pm tonight (Wednesday) we will open it up to non-trip Scouters as well.  Please visit this Doodle link to make your commitment => https://doodle.com/poll/rt283gppma5pbn4x.   For Scouters , we will split up the hours equally based on who is available.  Mark your availability and I’ll have the schedule out by Noon on Thursday.

 

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