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Consumer group looks at thirteen major retailers and supermarkets for their charity Christmas card offerings this yearSome retailers hand over as minute as 10p per pack of Christmas cards to charity,according to an investigation that reveals a huge variation in the amount given to well-behaved causes from each pack sold.The consumer group Which? looked at 13 major retailers and supermarkets for their charity Christmas card offerings this year. At what appears to be the least generous end of the scale, the Co-op gives nearly 7% (10p) of its £1.50 cards to food poverty and food bank charity FareShare, and while Lidl gives the equivalent of 8% (10p) of a pack price to childrens cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
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Source: theguardian.com

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