ASK LOBLAWS TO REJOIN FUNDSCRIP Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Comments
1	Carol Blake	I am the administrator for this program in 2 schools in Kincardine and would hate to see a huge portion of our grocery rebates missed weekly. Please reconsider supporting this practical program. Carol Blake.
2	Anonymous
3	Arun Mehra
4	Joan Reid	I have paid for two grade 8 graduation trips by buying gift cards from Zehrs through the Fundscrip program and am working on my third child's trip. Zehrs happens to be my main grocery store. I will now have to consider going somewhere else.
5	Anonymous
6	Cathy Thomson	I had been shopping mainly at Sobey's and when this program started I switched back to Zehrs because of the convenience of the gift cards and the fundraising it provided our school. I will be shopping at Sobey's again now that the gift card program is discontinued.
7	Heather Convay	I feel that because our school is small in a small community with a limited choice of where to shop it was nice knowing that our local store also participated in the bigger picture.
8	Anonymous
9	Linda McConnell	Mr. Weston, since you have shut out FundScrip from helping me raise funds with your gift cards, could you a) wave a magic wand and convince our governing board to become a charitable organization, and then get Revenue Canada to register us as a charity by the end of next week; b) create an online ordering website, so we don’t need to photocopy 580 order forms each week, killing off a small forest each year, or better yet you provide the photocopies c) lend us $10,000 each week so we have enough money to get a discount on Loblaws gift cards; d) pick up the gift cards from the store and bring them to the school, because I am not comfortable picking up $10,000 of gift cards myself, and guarantee to replace them if they are lost or stolen e) send over 4 or 5 of your employees each week to help me sort out each order into envelopes f) send over about 2,000 envelopes for us to put your gift cards in g) hire some experienced and knowledgeable fundraising consultants to help us OR REJOIN THE FUNDSCRIP PROGRAM. Without FundScrip your gift cards are useless to our school as a fundraiser. That said, I will be encouraging Riverpark parents to shop at Sobeys.
10	Brian Novak
11	Anonymous	As the largest grocery chain in Canada, Loblaws should act like it and step up to the challenge of community leadership.
12	Warren Katz
13	Robert Vandry
14	Janine Eby	For the past number of years I have been a faithful, weekly Zehrs shopper. I was thrilled when the FundScrip program was started at our school. Every day, average families can use an ongoing fund raiser that promotes shopping at our local stores while raising much needed funding for our school. This is a win/ win situation for all involved. I have in the past stayed with Zehrs for several different reasons. We have 2 other grocery stores in our town. If Loblaws decides to not let us buy gift cards through the FundScrip program, I will have to choose one of the remaining stores to shop in that will let us buy gift cards through FundScrip. The ability to fundraise through FundScrip is extremely valuable and important. Sincerely, Janine Eby
15	Micheline Vandry
16	Andre Deguire
17	Gabrielle St-Pierre
18	KIMBERLY SARNO	Very surprised by the decision made by Loblaws Corp.. For a company who is always so active in our community they are making parents think twice about shopping in their stores.
19	Vicky Quipp	I wish you were aware of how valuable we find this fundraiser.
20	Anonymous
21	Adam Bultz
22	Anonymous	I think I will support the independent companies who realize the huge benefit of the Fundscript program. I find it remarkable that Loblaws is so sure of their consumer support!!!! Perhaps by not shopping at these stores they may realize that those that belond to the Fundscript program are VAST in Number!!!!!!
23	Pedro Dionisio Julian	It truly disturbs me that you've withdrawn your support of this great program with your new policies... it puts my group at a disadvantage, we're trying our hardest to raise money for our special needs children and you've shut down an avenue for us... I truly hope you will reconsider your decision. thank you Pedro
24	Justin Uditsky
25	Deirdre McCormack
26	Martha Wickware
27	Jamie Elman
28	Rod LeRoy	FundScrip is a very important contributor to financing of our church. Sales of Loblaws gift certificates contribute several thousand dollars a year. This is a serious loss. Surely it is NOT beneficial to Loblaws to convert these customers to credit card sales, with their reduced and deferred revenue. Or to lose loyal customers to retailers who are more supportive of their community!!
29	Cameron Fortin
30	Sandi Holden	Highly disappointed that Loblaws does not stop to consider the "little guy" who is just trying to keep our young children active in sports and help alleviate the burden of the cost that goes along with that. We have been supporting Loblaws gift cards for over a year now and purchase these gift cards for use in your stores. Without the option of a gift card, I will go back to shopping at places like Walmart for toys, electronics, etc...instead of pre-purchasing the extra funds in support of my son's hockey team. I would only hope that management takes another look at what they're ultimately doing to the people who have been supporting their business. I will be the first to take my business elsewhere and forego a NoFrills/Zehr's store in the future. Maybe you should stop to consider the customer loyalty that these programs have built towards your empire and take a step back to support our non-profit programs in the end. In the end, it always comes back to hurt the "little guys". Sandi Holden
31	Halina Swinburne	Loblaws has always stated that they are a community store and part of the communuty however they have just blown all of their promises into the wind by taking themselves out of the Fundscrip group of merchants. I certainly hope that everyone who used to shop at Loblaws will now patronize the grocery merchants who are willing to support their community and thier community groups.
32	Mitchell Herscovitch
33	Anonymous	The main reason I started Funscript was because I shop at Loblaws (Zehrs) and a portion of my purchases would go back to my son's school. Unfortunately now that cannot happen. Please reconsider your decision and bring Loblaws and Funscript back together.
34	Julie Holmes
35	Theresa Bissonnette	The decision to pull out of Fundscrip is a grave decision that will definitely have negative repercussions to Loblawa.
36	Anonymous	The decision to pull out of Fundscrip is a grave decision that will definitely have negative repercussions to Loblawa.
37	Sue Stacho
38	Anonymous	You will efectively end our fundraising without having Loblaws/No Frills available from Fundscrip. Our supporters have in many cases switched grocery stores in order to support this program. This is a win-win for you (Loblaws) and us (Rideau Public School Kingston ON)
39	Felice Oberfeld
40	Anonymous	We will stop shopping at your stores in protest if you stop supporting our charity through Fundscrip
41	Jane Miller	The North Shore Parents Assoc of Dance is a non-profit group of parents in Elliot Lake who raise money to help the dancers in our local dance studio, Danceworks, travel to competitons around the province. We have been buying No Frills cards for over a year now through Fundscrip and have raised a significant amount of money for the kids. Since over half of our sales are for No Frills cards, the loss of this revenue to support our kids is significant. Your decision to not sell us cards will hurt the 150 kids in our small community who love to dance, and can't afford to attend competitions without the help of those funds. Please reconsider your decision for the sake of the kids!!!
42	Richard Yun
43	Mary Welsh	Please re-consider placing Loblaws under Fundscrip. As the administrator of our organization, our supporters use No Frills quite a lot since it is in our community. Other grocery stores are also valuable to us such as Zehrs and The Real Canadian Superstore.
44	Anonymous	When participating in Fundscrip, Loblaws was showing support for our organisation. Since Loblaws no longer supports us any more, we can no longer support them. Our members will gladly start buying from other stores such as IGA or Metro because they have shown that they care for non-profit groups, unlike Loblaws.
45	Jessica Goncalves
46	Jessica Goncalves
47	Cathy Hayward
48	Anonymous	Please reconsider because our members will go to stores in the Fundscrip program if you are not willing to participate. Loyalty is everything.
49	Anonymous	Our groups is a registered charity. That being said, there is NO WAY we are going to buy directly from Loblaws. We don't have the money, time, volunteers, place to store the cards etc. Be reasonable. Fundscrip offers us a service that is critical for us to paticipate.
50	Sandra H. Keymer