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Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Post by creatornator »

rootw0rm wrote: post #55
weiming wrote: post #2

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'm a cashier right now. i coat my dominant hand fingertips with cyanoacrylate to lessen my exposure to BPA.

Does that not feel terrible? Superglue feels like the tactile equivalent of nails-on-a-chalkboard to me. Though I suppose it's better than exposure to BPA

Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Post by Something1234 »

fmj wrote: post #36
Animats wrote: post #7

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.

If the store lets you use your phone number instead of the card try (local area code) 867-5309. Somebody has usually registered it already.

What's special about 867 5309? Is it a reference to a tv show like 90210?

Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Post by bdavis__ »

Something1234 wrote: post #62
fmj wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the store lets you use your phone number instead of the card try (local area code) 867-5309. Somebody has usually registered it already.

What's special about 867 5309? Is it a reference to a tv show like 90210?

it is from a song. "Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

from 1981.

Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Post by kalleboo »

cyphar wrote: post #34
kalleboo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 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). Though it is quite ironic that most original receipts don't last long enough for any audit purposes. In Australia businesses need to keep all receipts for 7 years (and for individuals it's 5 years), for tax audit purposes. But I have yet to encounter a…

Yeah thermal paper is pretty terrible. Also make sure you don't forget one on the dashboard of your car on a hot sunny day... At least where I live scans of receipts are accepted so I just scan everything

Re: Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

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Post by knolax »

dang wrote: post #59
knolax wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you get a Big Mike and Coca Cols at Mcdonals?

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for a little better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please delete my account.
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