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This 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.
I wish we could just get rid of paper receipts by default. At the end of more or less every retail transaction, they kindly hand you a few inches (or feet) of trash, which is a waste. Many places are kind enough to ask if you need the receipt, but it still prints out if you say no - the cashier just throws it directly away for you. I get that some people need or want receipts for various reasons, but judging by the t…
I 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.
That's helpful if you wish to opt out of the tracking. Of course, if you pay by credit card, even once, the company has now associated a name with that affinity card.
As I'm sure you know, Scott McNealy proclaimed this a few decades ago: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it". How remarkably prescient that was!
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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.
Not to bash the obvious, but If you're eating McDonalds there are more pressing health concerns than the ink on the fries.
Anything 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.
I'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 dime…
My Amex card does this for purchases at Square terminals. There's a "view receipt" link next to the transaction on my statement that opens the Square receipt. I haven't seen it for anything else though.
I wish we could just get rid of paper receipts by default. At the end of more or less every retail transaction, they kindly hand you a few inches (or feet) of trash, which is a waste. Many places are kind enough to ask if you need the receipt, but it still prints out if you say no - the cashier just throws it directly away for you. I get that some people need or want receipts for various reasons, but judging by the t…
My parents lived in Greece during the financial crisis, and at the time the tax agency would randomly audit people and require them to present 25% of their yearly income in the form of receipts. This was introduced as a way to get consumers to ask vendors for receipts (as a way to force them to input sales into their cash registers and book them as income)
I wish we could just get rid of paper receipts by default. At the end of more or less every retail transaction, they kindly hand you a few inches (or feet) of trash, which is a waste. Many places are kind enough to ask if you need the receipt, but it still prints out if you say no - the cashier just throws it directly away for you. I get that some people need or want receipts for various reasons, but judging by the t…
I believe that sometimes there are regulatory requirements to print receipts (as a transaction without a receipt is more likely to be cash-in-pocket tax avoidance). My parents lived in Greece during the financial crisis, and at the time the tax agency would randomly audit people and require them to present 25% of their yearly income in the form of receipts. This was introduced as a way to get consumers to ask vendors…
I wish we could just get rid of paper receipts by default. At the end of more or less every retail transaction, they kindly hand you a few inches (or feet) of trash, which is a waste. Many places are kind enough to ask if you need the receipt, but it still prints out if you say no - the cashier just throws it directly away for you. I get that some people need or want receipts for various reasons, but judging by the t…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not to bash the obvious, but If you're eating McDonalds there are more pressing health concerns than the ink on the fries.