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Also please make handing me a receipt extinct too or only if requested. Especially at drive thru(s) where the receipts become trash I later have to do work ..

Also please make handing me a receipt extinct too or only if requested. Especially at drive thru(s) where the receipts become trash I later have to do work .. aka clean up this annoying trash in my car.

jlblatt 9y ago
Doesn't a drive thru also hand you a disposable bag filled with a bunch of other stuff that's about to become trash- napkins, wrappers, straws, etc...? Just toss it in there dude, try not to let it bother you.
- paul7986 9y ago
  Nope they all hand me the receipt when the hand me back my bank card. Then I have to deal with a bag of food, a drink, placing my bank card back in my wallet and dropping the receipt wherever to drive off quickly! The receipt needs to go the way of signatures and hopefully soon. Not sure if you are a UX person, but the receipt in 2018 is bad UX for the customer and the business! Just like signatures have been for years..pointless, frustrating and annoying! I wish I could use Apple Pay everywhere!!!
  - mulmen 9y ago
    Put the receipt in the bag of food, you can even grab a french fry on the way out.
unethical_ban 9y ago
Nope. They have to give you proof of what you bought for the thousands of times a day across the country there is a quarrel with the order.
- paul7986 9y ago
  Use Apple Pay or Android Pay ... you see the charge right on your home screen and view your transactions whenever. The receipt needs and will go the way of the dodo bird, credit card signatures and etc...
  - supertrope 9y ago
    Apple Pay itself warns that the transaction log is not proof of purchase.
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    That's not an itemised receipt though.
  - tallanvor 9y ago
    Not every store or country supports Apple Pay and Android Pay.
  - astura 9y ago
    Can I submit that with my expense report to get reimbursed for my business expenses?
    - paul7986 9y ago
      Sure and in time you will be able to. It's going to take time for payments to all go digital but they will. Whipping out your phone and swiping it and then your done is way quicker and easier then the current payment UX we are doing now.
      - astura 9y ago
        If it's not an itemized receipt its not going to be accepted for an expense report unless the charge is very, very small. (I think my company is less than $25 doesn't require a receipt) I'm not going to screw around with being unable to prove my business expenses and being potentially liable for paying them personally. Even if they were itemized, I question if my company would accept it over the "official" receipt. Anyway, in this case you are just talking about moving to digital receipts, which is surely convenient, but its not "go[ing] the way of the dodo bird," it's "going digital." The current failure rate of mobile payments is currently much too high for me, personally, to move them them. I love the idea in theory but currently the execution is poor. Its just embarrassing for me to be standing there fiddling around with my phone for 60 seconds so its not even worth attempting when I know my credit card will always work.
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  No they don't. Here in Australia, a lot of stores (esp. cafes) will ask before giving you a receipt for low-value transactions.
simonsarris 9y ago
That and touching thermal paper is a source of lots of BPA exposure. (Many but not all receipts.)
mrfusion 9y ago
More importantly it’s your primary source of bpa exposure.
supertrope 9y ago
As soon as there's an electronic equivalent that's universally compatible, as cheap and reliable, and is accepted by insurers/government/corporate expensing. Credit card and checking account statements are getting close but they don't list the items purchased, only the money.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  Home Depot emails me a receipt after every credit card transaction with them. Is PDF not an open standard and a piece of data that could be routed appropriately? Electronic documents can already carry the same force as paper legal documents. What’s the holdup?
  - brandon272 9y ago
    Does Home Depot remember your email address based on your credit card number, or do you have to key your email address in every time? I never put it in because I always assume I will have to type in my full email address at every transaction on their somewhat archaic keypads.
    - toomuchtodo 9y ago
      Remembers my card number. I just push “email receipt” on the keypad after inserting my chip card. My gmail filter than archives it and labels it “Receipt”. A paper receipt is still printed, which is annoying, but I toss it right into the trash under the automated checkout device.
II2II 9y ago
One should make a habit of checking receipts. It is truly amazing how many mistakes some businesses make.
gambiting 9y ago
As a business owner - nope, handing receipts should be mandatory by law with heavy fines for not doing so(as it is where I'm from - Poland). I've had so many employees stealing by just not registering the order and pocketing the money - but fortunately, the law that requires that a receipt is produced fixed most of that.
- alkonaut 9y ago
  Whether you give the receipt to the customer doesn't really matter for that? The reason business here have to offer a receipt (but the customer can reject it) is because the customer is supposed to be certain that the transaction is taxed. Typical small businesses with easily hidden turnover (such as restaurants) some times register only e.g. 1/2 purchases, thereby dodging a lot of the taxes. Having to offer a receipt on every purchase makes that harder.
  - dullgiulio 9y ago
    Of course when they get the payment electronically, it's hard to dodge taxes. Where I live I am usually asked whether I want the receipt or not, which is printed in any case.
  - gambiting 9y ago
    It does, because the tax office very frequently sends undercover inspectors to buy something in your shop, and if they don't get the receipt they will fine you huge sums of money. My employees certainly have it drilled into them that any customer could be an inspector and they have to offer the receipt to everyone. And yes, of course - the tax office inspectors are doing this to make sure that taxes are paid on each sale - but it has the added benefit of making sure that the money for each sale is actually going in my register, not in the pocket of my employee.
tallanvor 9y ago
Some of us prefer getting receipts. Not only does it let us check that everything is correct, but also to record the information later or to get reimbursed if it's a business expense.

jlblatt 9y ago

Doesn't a drive thru also hand you a disposable bag filled with a bunch of other stuff that's about to become trash- napkins, wrappers, straws, etc...? Just toss it in there dude, try not to let it bother you.

paul7986 9y ago
Nope they all hand me the receipt when the hand me back my bank card. Then I have to deal with a bag of food, a drink, placing my bank card back in my wallet and dropping the receipt wherever to drive off quickly! The receipt needs to go the way of signatures and hopefully soon. Not sure if you are a UX person, but the receipt in 2018 is bad UX for the customer and the business! Just like signatures have been for years..pointless, frustrating and annoying! I wish I could use Apple Pay everywhere!!!
- mulmen 9y ago
  Put the receipt in the bag of food, you can even grab a french fry on the way out.

unethical_ban 9y ago

Nope. They have to give you proof of what you bought for the thousands of times a day across the country there is a quarrel with the order.

paul7986 9y ago
Use Apple Pay or Android Pay ... you see the charge right on your home screen and view your transactions whenever. The receipt needs and will go the way of the dodo bird, credit card signatures and etc...
- supertrope 9y ago
  Apple Pay itself warns that the transaction log is not proof of purchase.
- voltagex_ 9y ago
  That's not an itemised receipt though.
- tallanvor 9y ago
  Not every store or country supports Apple Pay and Android Pay.
- astura 9y ago
  Can I submit that with my expense report to get reimbursed for my business expenses?
  - paul7986 9y ago
    Sure and in time you will be able to. It's going to take time for payments to all go digital but they will. Whipping out your phone and swiping it and then your done is way quicker and easier then the current payment UX we are doing now.
    - astura 9y ago
      If it's not an itemized receipt its not going to be accepted for an expense report unless the charge is very, very small. (I think my company is less than $25 doesn't require a receipt) I'm not going to screw around with being unable to prove my business expenses and being potentially liable for paying them personally. Even if they were itemized, I question if my company would accept it over the "official" receipt. Anyway, in this case you are just talking about moving to digital receipts, which is surely convenient, but its not "go[ing] the way of the dodo bird," it's "going digital." The current failure rate of mobile payments is currently much too high for me, personally, to move them them. I love the idea in theory but currently the execution is poor. Its just embarrassing for me to be standing there fiddling around with my phone for 60 seconds so its not even worth attempting when I know my credit card will always work.
ajdlinux 9y ago
No they don't. Here in Australia, a lot of stores (esp. cafes) will ask before giving you a receipt for low-value transactions.

simonsarris 9y ago

That and touching thermal paper is a source of lots of BPA exposure. (Many but not all receipts.)

mrfusion 9y ago

More importantly it’s your primary source of bpa exposure.

supertrope 9y ago

As soon as there's an electronic equivalent that's universally compatible, as cheap and reliable, and is accepted by insurers/government/corporate expensing. Credit card and checking account statements are getting close but they don't list the items purchased, only the money.

toomuchtodo 9y ago
Home Depot emails me a receipt after every credit card transaction with them. Is PDF not an open standard and a piece of data that could be routed appropriately? Electronic documents can already carry the same force as paper legal documents. What’s the holdup?
- brandon272 9y ago
  Does Home Depot remember your email address based on your credit card number, or do you have to key your email address in every time? I never put it in because I always assume I will have to type in my full email address at every transaction on their somewhat archaic keypads.
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    Remembers my card number. I just push “email receipt” on the keypad after inserting my chip card. My gmail filter than archives it and labels it “Receipt”. A paper receipt is still printed, which is annoying, but I toss it right into the trash under the automated checkout device.

II2II 9y ago

One should make a habit of checking receipts. It is truly amazing how many mistakes some businesses make.

gambiting 9y ago

As a business owner - nope, handing receipts should be mandatory by law with heavy fines for not doing so(as it is where I'm from - Poland). I've had so many employees stealing by just not registering the order and pocketing the money - but fortunately, the law that requires that a receipt is produced fixed most of that.

alkonaut 9y ago
Whether you give the receipt to the customer doesn't really matter for that? The reason business here have to offer a receipt (but the customer can reject it) is because the customer is supposed to be certain that the transaction is taxed. Typical small businesses with easily hidden turnover (such as restaurants) some times register only e.g. 1/2 purchases, thereby dodging a lot of the taxes. Having to offer a receipt on every purchase makes that harder.
- dullgiulio 9y ago
  Of course when they get the payment electronically, it's hard to dodge taxes. Where I live I am usually asked whether I want the receipt or not, which is printed in any case.
- gambiting 9y ago
  It does, because the tax office very frequently sends undercover inspectors to buy something in your shop, and if they don't get the receipt they will fine you huge sums of money. My employees certainly have it drilled into them that any customer could be an inspector and they have to offer the receipt to everyone. And yes, of course - the tax office inspectors are doing this to make sure that taxes are paid on each sale - but it has the added benefit of making sure that the money for each sale is actually going in my register, not in the pocket of my employee.

tallanvor 9y ago

Some of us prefer getting receipts. Not only does it let us check that everything is correct, but also to record the information later or to get reimbursed if it's a business expense.