A 1959 receipt from conceptual artist Yves Klein is being auctioned off on April 6 and is expected to bring in over a half-million dollars for current owner, Loic Malle – who is an art advisor and former gallery owner. (Update) The Sotheby’s auction sold the receipt for $1,151,467.40 – about three times what it…

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…

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…

@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…

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…

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…

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…

Always Keep Your Receipts Sometimes when an old house is cleared by relatives for an estate sale or the new owners clean out the attic of a recently purchased old home, boxes of vintage receipts and records are discovered. In an article subtitled “Always Keep Your Receipts” according to Jonathon Klein, writing for “The Drive”,…