zedgeistAug 7, 2024

me_irl

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Show threadTheTechnician27
  • 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.

Aug 7, 2024 at 5:14pmWeb
Show threadÚwÙ-PasswortAug 7, 2024
As they are mandatory printed where Iam, the only choice is do i throw it away, or do they throw it away
Show threaddoctordeviceAug 7, 2024
I’m gonna run an experiment in 2025 and keep every single receipt so I can itemize my sales tax. My state has a stupid high sales tax and I don’t believe the sales tax tables from the IRS are accurate.
Show threadEpheraAug 7, 2024

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.

Show threadHandwovenConsensusAug 7, 2024
Taiwan had the same concern. What they did is make it so that receipts also work as lottery tickets, to encourage people to ask for them and hold on to them.
Show threadbreakcoreAug 7, 2024
Excuse me what? A lottery ticket‽
Show threadPhoenix3875Aug 7, 2024
Not from Taiwan, but the way it works is that there’s a unique ID on each of the receipts. The ID is there anyways, so no additional things to be done at this point. What’s different is that a lucky ID is announced e.g. every month, and the person with the receipt can collect a small amount of money.
Show threadTaTTeAug 8, 2024

In case someone else also wants to know more about this lottery:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Invoice_lottery

Uniform Invoice lottery - Wikipedia

Show threadbrbpostingAug 7, 2024

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)

Show threadsystemglitchAug 7, 2024
I default to yes if asked, so I don’t have to think. Later when I’m relaxed I can make the final decision
Show threadthehatfoxAug 7, 2024

Some 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.

Show threadbrbpostingAug 7, 2024

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

Show threadPyrAug 8, 2024
Sounds complicated. Just say yes and figure it out later.
Show threadWhyJiffieAug 8, 2024
Yeah, it only matters if it happens often, and if it happens often then you’ll probably get used to it anyway, so that you don’t have to mentally go through a list anymore.
Show threaddingusAug 8, 2024

Yeah, 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.

Show threadfoxontherocksAug 8, 2024
those people aren’t flying by the seat of their pants. they just live in harmony with those around them. they don’t feel the need to cause trouble because some thing happens.
Show threaddingusAug 8, 2024

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.