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>handed out regardless of the customer’s desire This, but for paper receipts! It blows my mind that the default everywhere I go is to print a receipt, then ask
by Uehreka 4y ago
>handed out regardless of the customer’s desire
This, but for paper receipts! It blows my mind that the default everywhere I go is to print a receipt, then ask me if I want it. I never do. I am not expensing these two slices of pizza. I will not need to deduct this bottle of shampoo when I file my taxes.
And then the merchant prints a receipt for themself! As if the computer that printed the receipt couldn’t just save a record of the purchase to a database!
The miles and miles of receipts that probably get printed and then thrown away probably adds up to something nontrivial, it’d be such an easy win to only print receipts on request.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThat's becoming pretty normal in my experience. A lot of places ask first if I want a receipt. And they're not just printing them anyway and keeping them or throwing them away, they just tell the POS system not to print it at all. IMO the best reason to avoid receipts when you don't need them is because thermal paper is really nasty stuff.