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Halfords send you a receipt to your email.

I was going to suggest this. I wish more places did it. What's better when you want to make a warranty claim, searching your email account for 'halfords' or scrabbling round in a drawer full of crap for a scrap of paper last seen 11 months ago?

Supermarkets piss me off for this. Go through the checkout and long strip of paper automatically spools out. I didn't ask for it, I don't need it, I certainly don't want it, it's going to get screwed up and thrown straight in the bin. It's just so pointlessly wasteful.

Pushy ATMs can get in the sea as well. Options: 1) check balance; 2) cash with receipt; 3) cash only. Select '3.' "Would you like to check your balance first?" No. "Would you like a receipt?" What the **** was the point of the first question, then?


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 8:57 am
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Nando’s is one of my chain guilty pleasures.

I used to like Nando's. You got a reasonable amount of reasonable food for a reasonable price. Then they changed the menu and replaced their veggieburger with something nowhere near as good.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 8:59 am
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I was going to suggest this. I wish more places did it. What’s better when you want to make a warranty claim, searching your email account for ‘halfords’ or scrabbling round in a drawer full of crap for a scrap of paper last seen 11 months ago?

You don't need it for halfords because the info remains in their computer systems and can be accessed and you do not need a receipt for returns

Supermarkets piss me off for this. Go through the checkout and long strip of paper automatically spools out.

My local supermarket asks if you want a receipt - both the self serve tills and the staffed ones


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 9:34 am
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You don’t need it for halfords because the info remains in their computer systems

What info? The info the OP refused to give them? 😁

My local supermarket asks if you want a receipt – both the self serve tills and the staffed ones

We're getting there. Self-serve are getting better, I think my local Tesco and the old ASDA I used to use both do this now. The vast majority of traditional checkouts now ask "do you want a receipt? and if you reply no they throw away the auto-printed slip for you.

Shout-out to Sainsbury's for at least printing double-sided, mind.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:00 am
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What info? The info the OP refused to give them?

the transaction info - I know because I have returned stuff to halfords without the emailed receipt- you take the item in, tell them the approx date, they find the transaction on the system and return your money - as is your legal right

Local supermarkets here do not print anything unless you ask for it  its not auto printed and thrown away.  NOthing is printed unless you say you want a receipt


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:08 am
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God forbid you’d be given a small paper receipt for a shopping trolley full of things wrapped in plastic.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:19 am
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Pushy ATMs can get in the sea as well. Options: 1) check balance; 2) cash with receipt; 3) cash only. Select ‘3.’ “Would you like to check your balance first?” No. “Would you like a receipt?” What the **** was the point of the first question, then?

Probably because they (these independent atm operators like cashzone) get paid if you pick a service like checking balance. Damn them for trying to earn more out of your convenience.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:53 am
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This thread reminds me of IceTs cover

Of this classic


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 11:21 am
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That Ice T song is amazing!!!! I'm gonna be playing every day after work from now on lol


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 6:04 pm
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It reminds me of this little gem:


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 6:06 pm
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That Ice T song is amazing!!!!

It's not an Ice T song, and he's bloody ruined it! 😡

***skates off, as if possessed.


 
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