In grocery stores I usually say no because I’m not gonna return my carrots and I don’t want them to waste ink and paper. Unfortunately a lot of stores print the receipt either way and immediately throw it into the trash if you say no.
Fun fact: Most receipts don’t use ink. Just thermal paper and heat.
I scan all my receipts and keep a digital record so that someday I can look back through them all and chart the prices of things I regularly purchased over time
Also useful for the occasional class action
If it gets printed anyway, yep. Then check if the prices match expected prices. If not, fuck I’ll do, I have social anxiety, guess I just lost some money. I am the kind of person who’d be willing to pay extra for self-checkout.
For me it’s a little less haphazard, but I’m guessing this person has lived something of a life of privilege and is probably significantly younger than myself.
I had an ex who was arrested because a gas station employee accused him of not paying for gas after he declined the receipt. Grocery stores and department stores, I want a receipt because there’s too much bullshittery and asshattery going on at those types of places for me to go without. I want to see when Walmart charges me $5.99 instead of $3.00 like it said on the shelf and I want the money back on my card when I inevitably have to do a return. Restaurants, I want my receipt because unfortunately some of the folks who run the card will “accidentally” miskey the tip amount, and strangely it’s always in their favor.
I sometimes don’t even listen to the amount they say. I just hear a number and know it’s time to use my card.
I wonder how much was mistakenly charged to me over the years.
