Should shops not give you a receipt ?

unholyangel

bris wrote: »

Isn't refusing a receipt for a news paper or Cheese and onion pasty a good thing for the environment?


Op do you want to kill the planet quicker than we already are? Some complaints on here get better every day.

How can politicians get the taxpayer to fund their daily newspaper etc if they don't get a receipt?

Does no one remember the expenses scandal and them claiming things like 7p for a bulldog clip? The cost to them might have been mere pennies, but the cost to the taxpayer was in the hundreds due to the administration costs involved.

davidmcn

unholyangel wrote: »

How can politicians get the taxpayer to fund their daily newspaper etc if they don't get a receipt?

Does no one remember the expenses scandal and them claiming things like 7p for a bulldog clip? The cost to them might have been mere pennies, but the cost to the taxpayer was in the hundreds due to the administration costs involved.

I think you're misremembering the expenses scandal - part of it was about the types of claims where under the old system MPs didn't have to submit any receipts.

I doubt any MPs have literally submitted a claim for a 7p item, more likely that journalists were just looking for amusing items in the middle of much larger claims.

DCFC79

AAWUK wrote: »

Due to shopping online a lot these days, I've only recently realised that a lot of shops are now asking you whether you want a receipt (or to have a receipt printed), at the end of your payment transaction, even if you pay by contactless. Inevitably they hurry you along and make you feel obliged to decline - it happened to me twice today, in shops selling homewares, but I made sure I got my receipts.

Coop convenience stores (near to where I then lived) did the optional receipt system about 15 years ago, but after a while stopped even asking whether you wanted a receipt, at which point I boycotted them.

For a while, I used an early pre-loaded canteen card payment system while working for a financial institution. You had to proactively ask for a receipt. After a while I started asking and realised by reasonable estimation that I'd been regularly overcharged by around 20%.

Doesn't it bother anybody? Have you all got enough money that you don't care that you're probably losing some of it? You get a better protection shopping online!

I reckon that at least 10% of multi-item receipts - whether food or non-food (FMCGs - fast moving consumer goods), etc. - involve me in taking back an item that is faulty or isn't of merchantable quality, or for which I have been overcharged. Item prices on receipts frequently don't match to shelf tags. I always scan through my receipts before leaving a supermarket or other store, paying more attention to items over a pound or items on special offer. Having receipts also helps to compare pricing between stores, track petrol consumption, etc.

Many shops are now tightening up their refund and exchange policies, and demanding to see receipts. Proof of a transaction, say from a bank statement or credit card bill, for multiple items, does not help to prove that one of those individual items was purchased. I say we should all demand receipts, and object to the idea of taking a receipt being optional!

I can only assume a lot of people are being sold a pup but not realising it, or do realise it but can't be bothered to go back and get the money due to them. I almost never decline a receipt, and will always firmly request one. Always having receipts has probably saved me thousands of pounds over the years.

Never had an issue with gettings receipts, never feel rushed.

Welcome to 2019.