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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Am I likely to have to return my purchase?
Am I using cash instead of credit/debit?
Do I want to review what I purchased to make sure everything was the correct price and/or (if it's a bunch of items) that I got everything?
Am I being reimbursed/reimbursing someone?
Am I in a shopping mall where I'll be bringing this merchandise into other stores with similar offerings?

if any of the above factors are true:

Do I have an account which will let me receive a digital receipt instead?
If not, then yes.

If none of the above factors are true: No. At that point to me it's just a waste of receipt paper and my time.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Here in Germany, there's a law to prevent tax fraud, which results in companies always creating a receipt for every purchase. Even if you don't want a receipt, they print it and then directly throw it away. (I don't know, if the law is dumb or the companies are).

And yeah, it's resulted in me just always taking the receipt and then usually throwing it away at home.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Taiwan had the same concern. What they did is make it so that receipts also work as lottery tickets, to encourage people to ask for them and hold on to them.

[–] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me what? A lottery ticket‽

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not from Taiwan, but the way it works is that there's a unique ID on each of the receipts. The ID is there anyways, so no additional things to be done at this point. What's different is that a lucky ID is announced e.g. every month, and the person with the receipt can collect a small amount of money.

[–] TaTTe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

In case someone else also wants to know more about this lottery:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Invoice_lottery

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Big brain.

Reminds me, I think economists love VAT so if this were a global thing for every transaction and we could agree internationally on minimum tax rates, I think society would be better funded (but I’m def not an economist)

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