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!

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 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.

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 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.

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.

No I will just get the abusive posts deleted.

Which I did.

Haha. The laugh is on you.

I am not taking bullying or abuse on this thread

I’m crazy but you’re the one going on nearly 100 posts about a receipt 😅

On a quick whizz through I can see about 6 deleted posts and 2 of them are yours @Bunnybenty

What does that tell us?

Yes! I never give my email address, and if they ask why, I say I have far too much stuff cluttering up my inbox anyway.

If I do need a receipt (e.g. when buying a sweater as a present for dh) I make sure I get one and keep it safe.

What does that tell you?

Not much.

It is a national thing.

Your post is idiotic.

Loads of threads on mumsnet complain about things that happen in the UK.

How sensitive are you, that you can't take a complaint about something that happens in the UK.

It's not a national thing because it's wildly varied across the UK and other countries.

That's what's annoying people and why this ridiculous thread has gone on so long. Because you insist on talking about things in absolutist terms in different countries.

I note others have also had your abusive posts deleted. See, reciepts are useful!

@Bunnybenty, recent posts (which I agree some have been less than kind) aside, people disagreeing with you or pointing out the flaws or lack of logic in your responses is not "abuse" or "bullying". Yes, a lot have been fairly forthright but that, I assume, was most likely in response to your own tone and refusal to accept any differing views.

Edited for spelling.

Another bully alert. As i said, i will report every single abusive post.

Jesus people on this thread are horrendous.

Telling me to "check my meds"

Is definitely abuse and bullying.

You spelled receipts wrong.

OP you’ve literally had some of your own posts removed for bullying & nastiness, you lose the moral highground a bit then.

Why do you think people on “this thread” necessarily are horrendous?
I think it’s because the OP has set the tone.

What are you on about "and other countries"

As i have already written , i never said that it didn't happen in other countries.

And it is not anything that "i have done", that is annoying peoppe.

I have seen the same kind of bullying pile - ons happen on so many threads on here.

Remember that the start of this thread, I even predicted exactly what the bullies would write. As it is the same on every thread.

And I predicted it exactly right.

As I said, "recent posts aside". The tone was set many, many pages ago by you, please don't try to claim the moral high ground now

Strange how these bullying pile -ons happen on many threads then...

That is your opinion, not fact

and I totally disagree with you.

As i have already written , i never said that it didn't happen in other countries

You said "I don't think it happens in ireland" in direct response to me saying it's normal practice here, since confirmed by lots of other Irish posters. So you're being a bit disingenuous with your claims now.