Grocery Bagging – March 8th, 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.  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 close to 30 youth and a dozen Scouters interested in 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.  Please mark your availability and we will get you in as long as possible 🙂

Please mark your availability on Doodle => https://doodle.com/poll/mkzebv4zvqyr3t3f

Remember, this is your availability, not your desired shift.  If you are available from 3:30-10pm but only want to work a 2hr shift, mark yourself down as available from 3:30-10pm and write in the notes that you only want 2hrs.

Schedule will be done up on Wednesday evening, so if you haven’t responded by then there is no guarentee that a shift will be available for you.

GROCERY BAGGING PROCEEDS

  • 90% 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.
  • 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 the following dates:

  • April 19th
  • June 28th

 

 


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