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TheTechnician27- Are you likely to have to return your purchase?
- Are you using cash instead of credit/debit?
- Do you want to review what you purchased to make sure everything was the correct price and/or (if it’s a bunch of items) that you got everything?
- Are you being reimbursed/reimbursing someone?
- Am I in a shopping mall where I’ll be bringing this merchandise into other stores with similar offerings?
if any of the above factors are true:
- Do you have an account which will let you receive a digital receipt instead?
- If not, then yes.
If none of the above factors are true: No. At that point to me it’s just a waste of receipt paper and my time.
Here in Germany, there’s a law to prevent tax fraud, which results in companies always creating a receipt for every purchase. Even if you don’t want a receipt, they print it and then directly throw it away. (I don’t know, if the law is dumb or the companies are).
And yeah, it’s resulted in me just always taking the receipt and then usually throwing it away at home.
In case someone else also wants to know more about this lottery:
Big brain.
Reminds me, I think economists love VAT so if this were a global thing for every transaction and we could agree internationally on minimum tax rates, I think society would be better funded (but I’m def not an economist)
thehatfoxSome contactless payment systems like Apple Pay can have a receipt automatically emailed if the POS system supports it.
Avoids paper waste from unwanted, avoids missing a receipt when it was wanted, and much easier to organise.
Anybody say yes to bump the “yes” stats so companies don’t try anything funny based on likelihood of getting away with it?
Naw that’d be weird whistle
PyrYeah, I always ask for a receipt at counter service/fast food eateries. Half the time, even though I only order like 2 items (3 at the very maximum if I’m feeling chippy), the order is inevitably missing something or incorrect so I like to have it as proof when I tell them I’m missing my drink order or something.
I don’t know how people fly by the seat of their pants and just let places like Taco Bell or Dunkin Donuts just give them random items without proof of what you ordered lol. Maybe I’m just unlucky!
Or yeah, if I think I might have to return an item, I don’t want a receipt.
Otherwise, 90% of the time, I don’t want one.
How is it causing trouble to say “excuse me, I had a latte with my order”??? I’m polite about it and I wait ample time to make sure they truly forgot and aren’t just behind.
But I only order 2 things. When I’m missing one of the only two items I paid for, I have a tendency to speak up. It doesn’t make me an asshole. Believe it or not, there are polite ways you can indicate that you are missing half your order.
Not sure there is a joke in there. For some reason the question kind of surprises you and you have to quickly decide on the spot whether to have the receipt or not. So you end up winging it, sometimes having it, sometimes not.
Nowadays, I mostly decline but on occasion still end up agreeing, so I can relate.
ok I get it now, and yea European ahahaah
but we do have these things here too, I just did not realize that was much of a troubling question. My time of thumb is purely ecological: I prefer not having it. I’d prefer by mail if that’s not possible and paper is only kept if there is a debt involved
When the greetings guy at Walmart asks for my receipt/proof of purchase, I handed to them an continue walking towards the exit.
I don’t understand why they love to collect receipts, it is not easy to build a fortress with such, at least it won’t be as sturdy as cardboard. /S
catbumFun fact! If the talking pump has buttons (usually four in each side of the screen), press all of them from the top down right when it starts yammering at you, and it should shut its trap!
I, too, hate being audibly ad-blasted at the gas station.
I once even had an attendant ask what I needed help with over the little speaker, because one of the buttons was an unmarked ‘call for help’ button.
jballsHis joke always reminds me of Patrice O’Neal’s counter point:
Ellia Plissken
imperorI always say no because receipts have been shown to commonly contain BPA and other cancer-causing/endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can be absorbed through your skin. The data seems to be mixed on whether or not the dermal uptake is significant enough to pose a threat, but I just don’t want to take the chance.
If you have to have a receipt, try to touch it for the least amount of time possible, avoid touching the printed side, and keep it in a container or Ziploc bag in your main bag or somewhere else.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/receipt-paper-harmful/ www.ecocenter.org/our-work/…/test-results www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0160412020319863 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33313651/ ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/…/isee.2013.S-2-37-02
I would guess that the exposure to BPAs from handling receipt paper for a few seconds would be incredibly minimal, especially when compared to other potential sources of BPAs like food and drink packaging etc.
Maybe don’t reuse receipts as paper towels or toilet paper, but briefly handling them enough to put in a wallet etc is probably safe in the grand scheme of things.
nifty
potoooooooo ✅️
BallShapedManTIL
I see what you did there ☺️
Where you keep how much money you have in each account. Used to be called a checkbook when we had such things.
How much money goes in, comes out, and where we are against our budgets. The last part is probably the most important.
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ObiBusiness purchase: receipt.
Big private purchase: receipt.
Everything else: no receipt.
demonmariner 
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