Do you want a receipt

The point is you made it a national thing.

If you'd just come on and moaned about the receipts people would have agreed or disagreed.

But it's really irritating for people to come on here and complain about the UK (and to tell Irish people they don't know what's going on in their own country, too).

And actually I don't see people coming on here and moaning about practices in France or Canada or Australia. Occasionally you get threads about places people don't like for holidays or that they find creepy (!) but they include UK places too.

I would have told him to fuck off and find some real crims. Then not shopped their again. Security guards pee me right off

Yes especially when they'd probably just watched the OP buy the things at the self-serve till.

I used to get annoyed with the ones who worked at my company as well - it always irritated me that I was being told what to do by people who didn't actually work for my company but were contracted in from an outside firm. They should be directly employed and receive proper training.

I would have told him to fuck off and find some real crims. Then not shopped their again. Security guards pee me right off.
I got followed last summer in boots I had my birkies on I'm a granny had a baby in a pushchair a toddler on reins and a 5 year old with ASD. How fSt could I bloody run. Haven't spent a penny in that shop since.
Our Sainsbury's security guards spend more time looking at young women and chatting to each other than watching for the professionals.

I don't take a receipt then think well they will have to go back through that till and find my details.

I get irritated with “do you want a bag?”. I think it would reduce the bags being used if they didn’t automatically offer….
in many European countries, I believe it is illegal to not be given a receipt whereas in the UK, it isn’t.

Not my experience. More often than not now they ask before printing so no wastage.

It's pretty recent this has started happening and places have realised people often don't want receipts. Cafés and restaurants have been further along the curve than shops I've found.

I have a question... I usually say, no thank you when offered a receipt but nine times out of ten, the receipt is automatically generated. It appears that if unwanted, the receipt is thrown into a bin by the cashier. How is that preventing paper waste /landfill?

God I miss the laugh reaction

Make sure you keep the receipts.

My question was more - how is it reducing paper waste, when I see them just throw the receipts in the bin anyway.

Because most of the time you get asked before they print anything! There may be some shops where the receipt gets printed automatically, or the cashier is working on muscle memory and automatically hits print. But in the vast majority of shops where they ask if you want a receipt, whether they print one or not depends on your answer. Which saves paper!

If you are the only person that has to walk back to a cashier three times a day to be asked about aa receipt, and you are the only person that watches them put a receipt in the bin every time, consider that this appears to be a 'you issue' and not one that reflects the >80% of people here that think you are being unreasonable.

My question was more - how is it reducing paper waste, when I see them just throw the receipts in the bin anyway.
Seriously? Because that doesn't always happen. Sometimes they do that and it's pointless. Mostly they ask before printing and then don't print. It's a changing process that is not universal.

Just give me the receipt at the point of purchase. Its easier for everyone
Not for those of us who don't want one.

Sign up for e receipts. Saves paper and won't get lost/thrown away when you need to return or prove purchase eg when item under warranty. Simples ! Opt out of sales emails etc.

"As i said, it doesnt reduce that much paper waste"

"No, I already know that they say they do it to stop paper waste. Obviously. Everyone knows that."

That's from two consecutive posts of yours. Your question in your OP was very clear "Why in the UK do they not just give the receipt to you?". It's been explained to you countless times, you claim to understand it, but you still don't agree (or believe it happens elsewhere).

It's so strange, almost like not every shop Ireland runs to a strict set of rules

The OP has been to 3 shops where they didn't ask, you are always asked, maybe there should be some kind of special investigation into this disparity

Case proved!

Exactly. You'd think it would be that simple and that after after a few replies the OP would have gone away happy to have the answer. Maybe even have said thanks? But it's become obvious that that's not what they wanted when they asked the question!

I live in Ireland. I am routinely asked if I want receipts. I always say no.

I live in Dublin, Ireland. I get asked in Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, SuperValu, Dunnes etc if I want a receipt. I always say no.

It's an odd thing to be bothered by and it's pretty obvious if they are asking you if you want one at all, they are reducing paper waste. If they ask if you want a receipt emailed, they are after your details for marketing too