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Not sure if there's a scheme in place here in Scotland or UK, but I always get asked if I want a receipt or not for several years now. Receipts and plastic bags are only by request. The main exceptions seem to be restaurants and public transport.
However, my local supermarket has installed receipt scanning barriers at the self checkout - so those used to have optional receipts, but no longer. I guess profits before environment.
Often in the US you'll be asked if you want a receipt, but saying no will frequently have the receipt printed anyway but they just throw it away. It's pretty stupid.
In France in my local supermarket, since several days, we can print only a small receipt just for the scanning barriers if we want. This is still some waste though.
We have them at self checkouts here in Norway. Can't get out of the store without them. I do not like it
In the Netherlands the terminals ask if you want a full receipt or a short one with just the barcode to exit.
What exactly does the bar code encode? I suppose it must be the unique identifier of the receipt. Can you look it up on the web? Or is it only useful to the employees of the store?
You have to scan it to exit the selfcheckout and the store. If you use the manned checkout, you do not need to scan anything to exit
Assuming that the Norwegian system is in anyway similar to the Finnish system I use, they just print the system id and the n:th of you on a piece of receipt while the system just checks that no similar register/customer id's have passed.
We tested this with friends where multiple friends bought stuff from the same register, but exited using only a single one and they were usable afterwards, but only once per.
In the Netherlands the terminals ask if you want a full receipt or a short one with just the barcode to exit.
In the Netherlands the terminals ask if you want a full receipt or a short one with just the barcode to exit.
In the Netherlands the terminals ask if you want a full receipt or a short one with just the barcode to exit.