Do you want a receipt

[Bunnybenty]

I moved to England not that long ago.

In other countries that I lived in, they just gave me a receipt in the shops, everytime that I bought something. The receipt was always handed to me with the purchase.

Why in the UK do they not just give the receipt to you,

instead they always ASK you if you want a receipt.

What annoys me about it, is that it slows the shopping experience down so much.

Many times I have been called back to the till, to be asked if i want a receipt.

Example: I was in a small shop this morning. I only had a certain amount of time, as i was on the way to work. I was walking out of the door, when the woman at the till shouted at me "Wait. Come back! come back!".

I thought maybe my payment hadn't gone through, so I walked all the way back to her.

She said "Do you want a receipt?".

It drives me mad!

This and the height thread are bizarre but funny.

it's creeping in Ireland. it's already in aldi and lidl and a good few clothes stores now. Mr price too. won't be long tull dunnes and tescos start it. as people said it's to save money. all those paper rolls add up. if you want it say yes if you don't then say no simples

Tesco Express always asks here. I usually say no unless it's for work out of petty cash.

Of course it can be that much paper waste. Think how many individual shopping transactions there are in the country each day.

And quite why what other countries do or do not do impacts the amount of waste in the UK is beyond me, I mean we charge for plastic bags and as a consequence use many fewer than we used to; in the US they don’t and use (literally) hundreds of billions.

Omg are you for real,it is to save paper wastage,just say you dont want a receipt before it even comes to the end as most of us with sense do because we know they will ask,I live in Ireland and everywhere asks so you're wrong about ireland..

I feel like this thread needs a diagram. Everyone calms down at a CF parking drawing.

It's q a recent one where some shops ask. Not all though, msons for example it is standard to give receipt. Lidl always ask if you want one. I don't think it's a big deal tbh 🤷‍♀️

Surely people need a receipt? Security have been known to stop people & ask to see it.
And it's necessary to check against your bank/CC statement.

Or are they just being direct? Pretty much everyone is saying the same thing. Don’t come to live in our country and then complain about tiny insignificant things!

Haha!

Even i am laughing at this thread

I do see the hunour in complaining about receipts, descending into personal battles and insults

Hopefully it has brought a bit of humour to people's day

I mean I’m sure you wasn’t forced to move to England we didn’t bring you here in chains? Why be so petty and moan about a simple thing such as a receipt.

14 pages on in which @Bunnybenty has commented 56 times (I think, though no doubt I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.) The initial post asked why in the UK we are not automatically given a receipt. That question has been answered several times and yet not once has OP acknowledged it. What's the point of asking a question if you don't want an answer?

"Our country". How nationalistic of you.

Thats funny, because I was actually born in England.

I moved abroad at a young age with my family, like A LOT OF FAMILIES do, and I recently moved back . I was actually just watching UK music documentary. Perrie Edwards said that her family moved from England to New Zealand for a while and then moved back when she was a child. My colleague at work was born in England, she told me that her family moved to Australia for a while, then moved back to UK. Loads of families move around

Have you ever lived outside of the UK?

Why don’t you just say when you get to the till that you don’t need a receipt ?

To be fair, Mumsent is littered with threads in which a poster asks a question, but then studiously ignores all answers that don’t align with their view. The wonder is that someone can’t understand that their experience and preferences aren’t necessarily the same as everyone’s, or indeed as it appears here, anyone’s 😂

Wake up......

No one is laughing with you…

'Acknowledge it'.

How silly. You didn' "educate me".
OBVIOUSLY I know the reason they say that they do it, is to stop paper waste

However when i have said no to receipts, I have seen shops still print the receipts, and then throw the receipts in the bin.

So paper is still being wasted

Go away bully. And also read the thread before you reply nonsense.

I didnt say they were laughing with me.

A poster said that she was laughing at the thread and i wrote, "even i am finding the thread funny,"

at how people are being so aggressive angry and crazy on a very mild thread about receipts.

Because i didnt have to say it in the last two countries that i lived in. So it is not ingrained in my memory.

However when i have said no to receipts, I have seen shops still print the receipts, and then throw the receipts in the bin.

So paper is still being wasted
Yes, because funnily enough not all shops work the same. Some will print it without asking and you can accept it or not and if not they will bin it. Some will ask if you want it before printing. Some will refuse to print it and only offer you an emailed version.

Some are wasting paper and sone are not. Same as some people waste paper and some don't.

This variety of behaviour between shops is found across countries, hence you having a different experience in Ireland than others.

It is ridiculous that the fact not all shops do the same thing apparently needs to be clarified to you.

They don't always print it so that's saving paper. And if it's printed and you don't want it, they save you having to throw it away.

Hopefully after this thread it will be very much ingrained in your memory and you’ll say it at shops forever more! Then no more receipt problems. Phew!

Your last point is utterly ridiculous and very weird.

As i never wrote "i think that all the shops do the exact same as each other."

I don't think that. Why on earth would I think that every shop across the U.K does the same thing as each other.

I did write "I have seen shops that I have been in , doing it"