Receipt Inflation
Dec. 29th, 2004 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, for breakfast I had a cup of yogurt. Fifty cents at Safeway. Such a deal! Statistically, it would cost me less than four bucks a day to maintain my necessary caloric intake. And then, I get the receipt.
It's fifteen inches long. I measured.
I look it over, and more than half of the receipt is a list of the "customer loyalty program" indicia for my affinity card: how many Starbucks drinks I've bought in the past year (1), how many deli sandwiches (6), and how many greeting cards (0). A customer service phone number. An offer for a fuel discount if I use their gas pumps (which this store doesn't have). An offer to cash my military service checks.
It's ridiculous. I don't even look at it that closely. I just want to know that everything I bought is on the receipt and nothing else. It's a transaction record; I don't appreciate it being a billboard for selling more.
It's fifteen inches long. I measured.
I look it over, and more than half of the receipt is a list of the "customer loyalty program" indicia for my affinity card: how many Starbucks drinks I've bought in the past year (1), how many deli sandwiches (6), and how many greeting cards (0). A customer service phone number. An offer for a fuel discount if I use their gas pumps (which this store doesn't have). An offer to cash my military service checks.
It's ridiculous. I don't even look at it that closely. I just want to know that everything I bought is on the receipt and nothing else. It's a transaction record; I don't appreciate it being a billboard for selling more.
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Date: 2004-12-30 01:05 am (UTC)There's a reason I don't shop at Safeway much... and you've hit on the symptom...