I went to that great store again

I went to the General Earth's Store today, with empty containers to try their organic shampoo, conditioner and oil. At the cash register they have three boxes now with differently coloured stones. If you bring a cloth bag you get a yellow one worth 2 cents, for refilling containers you get a red one worth 5 cents and for biking, bussing or walking to the store you get a green one worth 10 cents. I got them all, yeah. Then they have three boxes each for a different project they support. There's the Edmonton food bank, a midwifery program in Haiti, and a bicycle ambulance project in Malawi. So you distribute your stones as you please and by the end of the month they count the stones and add up how much money they pay to each of those projects. That's a neat idea and a lot more tangible than the claims of big supermarket chains about how many millions they donated. Either way the money is somewhere in the price calculation of the products but maybe I don't want to support what Safeway gives donations to.