44-inch receipt from CVS

[Bertha Venation]

I use their damned card to get the discounts. In return I get ridiculously long receipts, containing coupons for things I'll never buy. Today's is more than a yard in length. I swear, you could write the entire New Testament on one of these receipts.

Pfft.

Oh, on edit: I bought a 12-pack of Coke, two 20-oz Zeroes, a box of band-aids, and a snack. 44-inch receipt. I say again: pfft.

[onehandle]

1. Ready to pay for everything with my iPhone.

Retail-wise, I regularly pay at the Apple Store and Starbucks and get an electronic receipt.

I want this everywhere.

[Bertha Venation]

3. HELL yes. Me, too. n/t

[LiberalEsto]

2. Somewhere, another tree died for CVS

I get those ridiculous receipts too.

[olddots]

4. try giving CVS cash

I thought they were going to have a heart attack

[charlie and algernon]

7. hell, at the CVS here, the employees don't even attempt to ring you up

They've got three self-serve registers, so the employees have apparently all decided that means they can just spend their shift stocking selves and walk around aimlessly while the customers ring themselves up.

[Tom_Foolery]

5. Kmart is just as bad...

I bought a birthday card last week, and the receipt looked like it was a mile long.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. My KMart cuts 'em up, so...

I tend to get 7 or 8 smaller receipts.

Nothing there I want, though, except maybe the 30 cents off on gas.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. AHA!!! So YOU'RE responsible for the decimation of the rain forests!!!

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[Chan790]

8. I get those constantly.

I figure they could have saved $100! this year on paper by going to a more-complete online card system like Giant and Safeway where you log-on and add the "instant coupons" (paperless discounting) onto your card for the "not everybody is eligible or has made the qualifying purchases" offers you want.

[graywarrior]

9. It's a riot standing there waiting for the damn things to print out

And not one coupon is useful to me.

[marzipanni]

10. Is that why purses are so large?

JK- but I unfurl several feet of receipts/coupons from my purse and can't throw them in with the recycling due to BPA or BPS on them.
<snip>
July 11, 2012 — People are being exposed to higher levels of the substitute for BPA in cash register thermal paper receipts and many of the other products that engendered concerns about the health effects of bisphenol A, according to a new study. Believed to be the first analysis of occurrence of bisphenol S (BPS) in thermal and recycled paper and paper currency, the report appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711210241.htm

on same page-
(Jan. 22, 2013) — Researchers found that like BPA, BPS disrupts cellular responses to the hormone estrogen, changing patterns of cell growth and death and hormone release.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122191412.htm

[Brigid]

11. I went to CVS tonight, so I measured my receipt.

About 43". One coupon I might be able to use.