Stores that want your email

I understand pp setting up a new email account just for receipts, it makes sense. It just doesn't work for me. I have so many bloody email addresses, I'm always losing track of my passwords as it is. It just feels like too much faff when a paper receipt can be issued. I've got two jobs so I have two different work email accounts, then my university email account and my personal email account and then my gmail email account. Also, I volunteer and the organisation insists I have an email account with them too.

"Oh, erm ... I did have an email address a few years ago, what was it? Erm ... it began with a number, erm .... oh, I think the queue is building up, you'd better just give me a paper one."

This. I have an email account like this.

It's less that they benefit when you do give it, it's more that they get in trouble if you don't.

I work in a supermarket pharmacy now so don't have to deal with asking for emails but we still have targets set by head office of numbers of people per week they want us to sign up to different services eg blood pressure monitoring/new medicine reviews etc.

We don't get any praise, bonus or reward for hitting the target, but if we don't then we get head office sending emails/calls nagging us about it and managers taking employees to the office to be spoken to about not hitting targets and then getting "coached" on the best way to improve the target score the following week. It rarely goes any further than that where I work but none of us on retail want the hassle of someone constantly on our backs for not asking/signing people up so we just do it. Some companies do take it further and I know of a couple of people who were threatened with being fired if they didn't hit their target repeatedly.

Where I work it used to be that hitting targets was linked to our annual bonus as a KPI metric so we did have some incentive to care a little bit though considering our bonus was usually less than £100 it really wasn't much of one but now we don't get an annual bonus there is even less incentive beyond "If I don't sign up X number of people, Steve will pull me into the office for another lecture"

Is there any benefit to the staff that asks for your email address? I know that there's a benefit to the company, but I just wondered if the staff receive any incentive, and that's why they're peeved if you refuse.

River Island seem to be using sneaky tactics lately. I bought something a few weeks ago and when I said "no, thank you" to giving my email address, the assistant said they were only issuing online receipts and I couldn't have a paper one. I couldn't be bothered arguing even though I knew he was lying. I just said I'm not bothered about a receipt and left without one.

I'd have said that's fine, I won't be buying the item please return my payment.

As for setting up a separate email I already have my personal email, my work email, my mums email, my dads email & DD's email on my phone so I get enough shit as it is without adding another.

Set up a spare email.
Then make an image of it, either in a paint app or screen shot it or what have you.
When they ask, show them it on your phone like a phone only business card.

Yeah... This is what I've done... Makes it so much easier... I have a filter that groups all marketing mails together, then i bulk delete.

Obly occurred to me after years pf these mails clogging up my mail account!

I've always just said 'no' and been given a paper receipt with no further ado. If I'm buying on a card I'm usually not bothered about having a store receipt and large purchases tend to be online anyway.

Halfords do this and as I already knew I told the lad on the till that I didn't have an email address

His face was a picture

Also asked for my car reg even though I was buying something not car related. I declined to give it him and said I just want my receipt

I just say no. One spelling mistake on their part and my receipt has been sent to someone else. No thanks.

This annoys me. I don't want to give my email address out. Like pp, my email address is my full name which is easy to misspell so the chances are, I won't even receive the receipt.

I've noticed shop assistants getting very snippy and quite rude about it. Instead of asking if I'd like a receipt, they just ask for my email address, as though it isn't optional. I say a polite "no, thank you" and they roll their eyes and look at me like I've just committed some obscene crime. Not all, of course, but an increasing amount of them do.

The worst ones are New Look and River Island. River Island seem to be using sneaky tactics lately. I bought something a few weeks ago and when I said "no, thank you" to giving my email address, the assistant said they were only issuing online receipts and I couldn't have a paper one. I couldn't be bothered arguing even though I knew he was lying. I just said I'm not bothered about a receipt and left without one. I bought something from there again last week (yes, I know, but it was the perfect dress) and again politely declined to give my email address but was rudely told by the assistant that she couldn't apply my NHS Blue Light discount without me giving my email address. I needed the discount so reluctantly gave her it. I checked afterwards and she was right, the terms and conditions say you have to provide your email address. I gave an old one I never use.

Contrary to the multiple recent purchases I've made, it has actually put me off shopping in New Look and River Island, and any other shop that gets pushy. I only bought the dress last week because it was perfect and I couldn't find anything I liked elsewhere (I needed it for a night out that same day). I won't be shopping there if I can avoid it. I can't be bothered with their bad attitude when I say no. I could understand it if I was rude about it.

Local big dept. store has asked for my email more than once. I just say no thanks - my inbox is stuffed too full as it is.

I am going to print a card with various details on so I can show that rather than read it out. I can't think where last wanted details in front of a queue of people.

The cashier should just give you a paper receipt without drama but if they are rude, don’t shop there and write to the CEO to tell them why.

Usually whenever I go into a store the cashier asks you 'do you need a bag?' when they can see you have bags with you, or if you buy something very small.
Surely if it is a case of to 'reduce waste' they would not ask that question at all and let the customer tell them that they 'need' a bag.

Anyway, back to the topic.

How would you go to paperless receipts for the very elderly who are not tech savvy or those who do not have email addresses?

It doesn't have to be either/or. We should think about all opportunities to reduce waste.

The reduction in single use carrier bags and increase in bags for life/long lasting strong bags for shopping has been transformational in the past decade. When I think about how all the main supermarkets used to have free carrier bags given away at every till without limit or charge, it was a disgrace. There is still work to be done, but that change in behaviour is embedded in society now, everyone takes carrier bags into shops or carries things out as loose items.

there is zero reason why people can't choose to eliminate wasteful practices that add no value and uses up resource needlessly. No different to abolishing plastic drinking straws, plastic cutlery. It just needs a change in mindset from won't do, to can do.

I have a very difficult to spell name plus I hate being sent marketing emails : these two factors mean I decline to give out my email address unless it’s a really expensive item at eg John Lewis and I want the back up to the paper receipt that I always ask for

On this thread, havent you read it?

Where have you heard this?

I'm more concerned about the plastic bags that shops still offer to customers...

My email address isn’t a state secret. I couldn’t care less.

Hate this too.

I also recently booked lunch at a restaurant and had to give my date of birth, it was a required field! I gave a fake one and in the comments explained why. Data is money now.