Store Receipts Getting Longer

jeffrey · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 10:02 AM

Debra Shigley recently went to a CVS pharmacy in Atlanta and paid $25.39 for two prescriptions, a beverage and a roll of toilet paper. The cashier then handed her a receipt that was almost two feet long.

"As long as my arm," said Ms. Shigley, a 30-year-old author who consults with women on careers and fashion."

More interactive graphics and photos Many shoppers have noticed with chagrin store receipts getting longer and longer as retailers tack coupons, return policies, loyalty points and other bits of information and advertising onto narrow pieces of paper that are supposed to be a record of what you bought and how much you paid...

Tale of the Tape: Retailers Take Receipts to Great Lengths - WSJ.com

Joan.of.the.Arch · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 10:51 AM

Rather than ridiculously long receipts, I seem to get two pieces of paper at checkout. Sometimes the extra is a "gift receipt" sometimes it is an in-store coupon, sometimes it is just a general store ad. What bugs me is that today's register tape paper is not supposed to go in the recycling, and I do not want to compost it, not knowing the (small?) effects of the chemicals on them.