So receipts were bad to touch a decade ago, causing the switch and the replacement is probably just as bad.
I scan my receipts for major purchases, but I think she had a point.
There is a non zero chance some cashier did this non stop during the pandemic. I hope they don’t read this article it will make them very stressed.
It would be amazing and seems like a straight forward extension of the charge card industry. Of course end user machines will have to be updated, but that can happen over a period of years, but it is a straight forward extension.
And the email / identity shouldn't be disclosed to the sellers, instead the receipts should be sent to charge card's infrastructure along with the charge/payment. And then from there it is distributed to the users.
Maybe Apple and Google and Samsung could somehow extend their Apple Pay / Google Pay / Samsung Pay APIs to enable receipts automatically and start to push for that. If Apple advertised it in their keynote, and say StarBucks and Home Depot and Walmart supported it, we would soon have this everywhere.
It would be important for the receipt to include the original broken-out list of items purchased, and not just the "credit card receipt" with the total paid. People need detailed receipts for returns and business expenses.
I actually do use this a lot. Have a corp card and corp email and it’s setup with stripe, square, bunnings (an australia thing) etc. to email receipts. For the corp use case its great. Spam that one use corp email all you want, just send me the digital receipts.
Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179645
That seems like a decent "good enough" solution.
LorenDB•7mo ago