Wheels come off bike retailer's charity scheme

By Ben Cook, Third Sector Online, 7 February 2008

Bike chain store Halfords has stopped a scheme designed to raise £80,000 for charity after it was alleged that employees were abusing the scheme to purchase stock at discount prices.

The initiative involved Halfords selling reject goods to employees at a discount to raise money for charity. But the company decided to end it after allegations were made that non-reject goods at the store’s Redditch branch were being included in the sale. A number of employees at the branch have...