Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
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Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#2Anything with toxic thermal paper immediately goes to the trash if I can help it. Other than arguably being bad for the environment (so much paper wasted) they can also be harmful to you simply from touch. E.g. "A significant increase in urinary total BPA concentration was observed for cashiers handling daily thermal paper receipts. " [1][2]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927604/
[2] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/03/the-health-...
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#3Anything with toxic thermal paper immediately goes to the trash if I can help it. Other than arguably being bad for the environment (so much paper wasted) they can also be harmful to you simply from touch . E.g. "A significant increase in urinary total BPA concentration was observed for cashiers handling daily thermal paper receipts. " [1][2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927604/ [2] https://www.c…
Does BPA exposure increase proportionally with receipt length? It would be interesting to, say, ink up your fingertips and then compare the area of ink transferred to different length receipts after handling them in a typical "toss into bag/pocket, skim when you get home, toss into trash" procedure.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#4This has been bothering me for a long time, I learned from this article that you can disable receipt printing from the CVS app. Go into account settings and set email delivery to disable local print.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#5Anything with toxic thermal paper immediately goes to the trash if I can help it. Other than arguably being bad for the environment (so much paper wasted) they can also be harmful to you simply from touch . E.g. "A significant increase in urinary total BPA concentration was observed for cashiers handling daily thermal paper receipts. " [1][2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927604/ [2] https://www.c…
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Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#6Anything with toxic thermal paper immediately goes to the trash if I can help it. Other than arguably being bad for the environment (so much paper wasted) they can also be harmful to you simply from touch . E.g. "A significant increase in urinary total BPA concentration was observed for cashiers handling daily thermal paper receipts. " [1][2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927604/ [2] https://www.c…
I can’t stand when I go to Mcdonals and ask to hold the pickle. They print a grill order receipt and tape it to the burger. It is a little receipt that states no pickle. All I can think when I see them is their ink is rubbing off on my fries.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#7I can live with the long receipts. What I hate is the huge penalty for not having an affinity card. Safeway did that first, then Walgreens and CVS followed. Lucky doesn't do that, and I usually go there.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#8This has been bothering me for a long time, I learned from this article that you can disable receipt printing from the CVS app. Go into account settings and set email delivery to disable local print.
But then I would have to tell them my email address.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#9This has been bothering me for a long time, I learned from this article that you can disable receipt printing from the CVS app. Go into account settings and set email delivery to disable local print.
But then I would have to tell them my email address.
Get a dedicated email address/domain? Handy for lots of situations and makes you not have to worry about this again.
Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
#10I've wondered for some time why card processors don't have an API to accept receipt data so that they could handle storing receipts along with the transactions. It would be a little less wasteful but also allow some of the newer banks to create some interesting products. Your bank or card issuer already knows which store you visited, when, and where. Knowing what products your purchased doesn't add too much more dimension of creepiness onto their pile of data.