January 17 2011
Enough with Receipts! (period)
I ranted a little about this once before but the problem is so ongoing so I can’t help myself.
I have a problem with receipts. The other day I was in the stoner pet store and I bought like a couple cans of dog food. Along with a handful of change I get handed a receipt. The receipt barely says anything– except that I spent $4.86 cents ‘somewhere’. Thanks? And last night I was in the yogurt store and they stuffed a ‘dollar sized’ receipt in my hand for my two yogurt purchase.
Hey! It should always be an option! Not a requirement! I am buying from YOU therefore it is MY responsibility to be responsible for MYself and MY own purchases! You’re not my Mom, store! You don’t need to remind me to be responsible and organized by handing me a receipt! “Make sure to save it for your records! The taxman might come one day!‘ If I’m at a point where I’m rummaging around in some desk drawer for a stupid pet store receipt to save my ass on my taxes— it’s pretty safe to assume that I’m pretty pre-frucked there.
It’s none of your business how I handle my finances, store! I need a receipt for yogurt? Or dog food? Maybe some people do for whatever reason. But for the 1% of OCD people who are so hyper organized that they keep receipts for every purchase ever– we all have to suffer with these little pieces of paper??
Or is it that the register always spits out a receipt– so the store guy has a choice– throw it out– or give it to you? In their defense, after a full day’s purchases they could have a garbage can full or receipts. Right? Better for them to get rid of em. They’d probably get all over the floor or whatever too. Well, guess what, store!! That’s your fruckin paper problem! Ask me if I want it!!! 9 out of 10 times people will say no! Especially if you’re a pet store or friggin stupid yogurt shop!
Sometimes I give it right back to them. I’ll hand it back and say I don’t need this. Feeling weirdly disorganizationally snobbish. But I feel like a bit of a prick for doing the hand back. Like I’m asking them to throw out my garbage for me. But ay! It’s not my garbage! It’s your garbage, clerky! You dropped it in my hand instead of your friggin garbage can! 3-second rule!
The other day in the pet store I considered actually saying something to the guy. Just be like, ‘Look, Mr.-Pet-Store-Stoner-Guy-Who-Probably-Also-Deals-Weed-Right-Out-of-the-Store’, we gotta talk. Most likely 98% of your customers get slightly annoyed every time you hand them a receipt. I think everyone would be happier if you stopped with this policy.’ OR, ‘Listen, Mr.-Yogurt-Shop-Guy-Who-Probably-Dips-His-Balls-In-The-Chocolate-Sauce-After-Hours,’ most people who come into this store simply want a cup of yogurt. And that’s that. There’s no reason to hand over a paper souvenir reminder of the experience.
The problem is I feel like once you start complaining to store clerks about stuff in their store. Or their policies. Especially things as small as this. You start to tip toe dangerously into becoming grouchy old neighborhood man. And somehow I’d rather be the guy with a drawer full of useless receipts… than be that man. But man! Enough!
ok bye!
tOdd
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Thats so true!! Like What am i going to do with this??!! Use this as toilet paper–
MR. DENG DON’T NEED NO RECEIPTS EITHER. THAT COCK SUCKER.
I think you already are in grouchy old neighborhood man mode. I’m sure there are garbage cans on the street – throw it away there instead of dragging it all the way home. Or just say “I don’t need a receipt”. I’ve never had a problem saying that and having them not give me the receipt.
Good morning Todd. Receipts aren’t something to worry about. When I make major purchases (e.g. Bus Passes, Bus Tickets, whatever) I get a receipt. No big deal. Oh, and having receipts an option is a choice in some of the stores I shop at. If I go to New York Fries I am always given the option. I am super organized, but receipts having nothing to do with my taxes. I agree with you; it shouldn’t for anyone. Tax Returns is all about how much you make, not how much you spent. I keep my receipts for a month and then shred them. I agree that you’d go crazy if you kept every receipt for every purchase you made for the year. That’s why I do it.
I giggled when I read this paragraph:
‘Look, Mr.-Pet-Store-Stoner-Guy-Who-Probably-Also-Deals-Weed-Right-Out-of-the-Store’, we gotta talk. Most likely 98% of your customers get slightly annoyed every time you hand them a receipt. I think everyone would be happier if you stopped with this policy.’ OR, ‘Listen, Mr.-Yogurt-Shop-Guy-Who-Probably-Dips-His-Balls-In-The-Chocolate-Sauce-After-Hours,’ most people who come into this store simply want a cup of yogurt. And that’s that.
But I can understand how you can be annoyed at this.
good morning todd. receipts aren,t something to worry about. When i make major
purchases (e.g. Bus Passes, Bus Tickets, whatever) i get a receipt. No big deal. Oh, and
OK, OK, I won’t give you a frickin receipt anymore when you buy your wee- I mean, your dog food at my store. All you hadda do was ask.
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often the recipt is proof of tranaction. Every have a bartender throw your five in the draw without pushing any buttons? He took the cash, do you think the bar owner had to accoutn for the loss and adjust prices accordingly? yeppers. So goes it at a coffee/yogurt stand etc. You know the order was entered in the sytem because the reciept was created, thus the worker knows it. It doesn’t stop employee theft but the price of the roll of thermal paper is small compared to the security you get as an owner. Also could protect you if you ate bad food or something, no reciept makes it kind of hard to prove you even went there.
Americans put chocolate sauce on yoghurt?? ….weird……
TAKE A RECEEIT FOR THIS BITCHESSS BECASE THE WEEZE IS FIRRSSTT BITTCHHESSS!!! HATERS HATES!!!!! FIRRRSSTTTTT
I have news for you Weeze. You aren’t the first here. I’m sorry. You failed big time. Send my regards to the other retards on the short bus.
Hmmm, that Balls-In-The-Chocolate-Sauce sounds like a great idea, thanks! Can’t wait to surprize Concerned Parent (and her underaged daughter) with that the next time I “pop in”.
It’s a double edged sword. Sometimes it’s good to have the receipt and other times it’s time for the shredder again and again. Trouble is you never know which one your gonna need. And you do need them sometimes.
Um, you are right about the grouchy old man thing when complaining to store clerks and stuff. Almost Larry Davidish. Do you remember when you were that store clerk or random whatever? It’s just a job, you don’t care what customers really think. If someone said that to you, you’d probably be like “Ok…and??”
I understand your frustration, I really do. I have receipts littered all over purse, coat, bags, and my car cup holders and side door pouches. But call corporate or talk to an owner if you really want the receipt option thing. The front people just want to end their shift.
@R$N who writes “but receipts having nothing to do with my taxes. I agree with you; it shouldn’t for anyone. Tax Returns is all about how much you make, not how much you spent.”
not all people only deal with the tax returns. freelancers, business owners, the self employed can write off things like gas expense, food, office supplies off their taxes. receipts can be very important for taxes for many people. some receipts may have no value, but imagine a professional dog sitter, they can write off dog food as a business expense. other than joe shmoe with a normal job where they take out taxes, taxes are very much about what is spent.
don’t take me wrong, nothing wrong with being joe shmoe.
Hmmm. I never thought about that. Thanks for pointing that out Donny. Okay tOdd, receipts may not be important to the average person, but for freelancers such as yourself they are. If I were you, I’d go to the office supply store and purchase a box for your business expenses (e.g. plane tickets, software, etc.)
If the receipt is large enough and I don’t need it, I use the receipt as a snot rag.
The person who said: “chill – the receipt may hold prices down and other functions” is correct! Making sure that people put your purchase through the cash register keeps things legit, makes sure employees are not stealing and that the retailer is paying their fair share of sales and income taxes. I have travelled to Greece where everything is done under the table (no receipts), and because that country can’t manage to collect taxes, it is on the verge of bankruptcy. I have travelled to other countries where it is the law that store clerks must provide you with a receipt and consumers must keep them because they may be asked to provide proof of purchase by “tax compliance cops.” If a receipt is not provided, both the shop owner and customer are fined. Receipts are okay because they make it so that everyone pays their fair share of taxes and there are fewer shenanigans.
“Mr.-Yogurt-Shop-Guy-Who-Probably-Dips-His-Balls-In-The-Chocolate-Sauce-After-Hours” hahahahaha laughed my friggin assss offff!!! lol
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I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut… I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can’t imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, “Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut, I’ve got the documentation right here… It’s in my file at home. …Under ‘D’.”
Save your receipts you idiots! You can deduct your sales tax on your tax return.
Some receipts you keep (e.g. memberships, living with children, etc) your for tax return. But for simple stuff, such as buying donuts and a coffee, you don’t need to keep them. Really it comes down to common sense. Keep the receipts that are important (to you) and will be deducted for your tax return. As someone said earlier, other countries have different guidelines with regards to receipts. If you’re not sure read the policies online. Done and done.
I think you should be given the option of whether you’d like a receipt or not. If you do want the receipt, I think they should have the ability to email it to you (The Apple Stores do this). This way, the customer will have perminent record of it, and they won’t end up throwing it away or loosing it on accident. Thanksbye.
Is it true that you can deduct sales tax? Really? I need to look into this.
On your tax returns you have two choices; you can either take the amount the IRS gives you as a deduction or you can choosed to enter your own amount. That includes every cent you pay as sales tax including tax paid for donuts and coffee! I save every single receipt, add them up monthly to keep them from becoming overwhelming and when it is time to file your taxes you are ready. This is for the USA, I have no idea regarding other countries.
When I worked at a store, they made us give receiepts to people and if they said they didn’t want them we could throw them away. Some times I’d forget, and naturally it would always be with one of those people who NEEDED it and then would call the store and make a scene. If it was that important, why didn’t you ask me for it while you were standing there????
“Mr.-Yogurt-Shop-Guy-Who-Probably-Dips-His-Balls-In-The-Chocolate-Sauce-After-Hours”
…and I never ate frozen yogurt again.
You do need receipts if you have a warranty issue. I found this out the hard way. It super bugs me when things have serious problems pretty soon after purchase- like my ceiling fan that has gone nutty only two years after installing it. Called up the company- need the receipt to do anything about it. WHY?! Should I keep every receipt for everything I buy? I keep most of the users manuals- but sheesh! Where am I supposed to put all this paperwork?
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