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Eliminate Toxic Paper Receipts
BPA in Paper Receipts & Environmental Waste Every year Americans stuff their wallets and purses with paper receipts from convenience stores, gas stations, grocery stores and ATMs. Most of those receipts are unwanted and unnecessary. They end up in the trash most of the time, but those that are needed are tossed in a shoebox…
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Meaning of Receipts – Proof
via GIPHY re·ceipt | \ ri-ˈsēt [ ri-seet ] noun a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one’s possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc. receipts, the amount or quantity received: the act of receiving or the state of being received: something that is received. receipts, Slang. evidence or proof Above is…
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Receipt Walls: Way of Giving Back
A great Washington Post story from Vinita, Oklahoma where a local restauranteur began posting receipts as prepaid meal tickets. The receipts are hanging on a “Giving Wall” where anyone who is hungry and unable to pay can take a receipt, sit down and order a meal. Customers are contributing so some homeless residents can drop…
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Beat The Receipt – U.K. Paperless Pledge
Brick and Mortar Stores Going Paperless The “Beat the Receipt Paperless Pledge” shown below is campaigning with an environmental emphasis from brick and mortar stores in the U.K. asking consumers to lobby their own supermarket to support Beat the Receipt. The concept is to make all paper receipts optional and stop defaulting to printing and…
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Check Your Receipts Before Leaving Stores
&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br /> Have You Been Overcharged? Were Discounts Applied? It’s perfectly understandable that stores may run into technical issues which leads to being charged more than the marked or advertised price of goods. The video above discusses a survey done in New Zealand which found that Kiwis had been charged too much on…
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Long Receipt Tik-Tok Funny
@1234mark07 the shops have opened nooooo##fyp ##viral ##duet ##wow ♬ Star Wars – Produced – Ettore Stratta It happens to most of us as we empty shopping bags to find the crumpled receipt at the bottom of the last bag – we stare at the receipt wondering how we spent that much and on so…
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Your Receipt Sir: Receipts as Art Form?
There is some attention being paid to what receipts should look like from an art contest titled “Re-Think Your Receipts” asking artists to reimagine what a receipt is. I submit that receipts should provide utility as described here and that they should offer beauty in their functionality. My vision would live in digital form and…
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My Black Receipt Supports Black-Owned Businesses
An organization called My Black Receipt is asking consumers to support black owned businesses and then upload receipts from the money they’ve spent. The effort has the effect of helping keep black owners from struggling due to lack of business worsened by Covid 19. My Black Receipt was started by Kezia Williams, who trains black…
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Germany Requires Printed Paper Receipts in 2020
Starting in January 2020, all German shops must print paper receipts – even if a customer doesn’t want one. The purported reason is to prevent tax evasion and is required even though all German cash registers have chips that record every transaction for tax authorities. Small shops that sell pastries are protesting and claim that…
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Customer Receipt Includes a fee for ‘One Stupid Question’
View this post on Instagram Tom’s don’t play. A post shared by Russell Lopez (@copendejo) on Dec 22, 2018 at 11:25pm PST Tom’s Diner in Denver has a funny menu item which looks a bit odd when you see it on your meal receipt. They’ll charge you $0.38 cents for “One stupid question”. The menu…