OK, I'm going to go Andy Rooney on you for a bit. No, I'm not going to grow my eyebrow hair for 80 years without once trimming it resulting in the appearance of two highly distracting, shrubs above my eyes. I am however going to lodge a curmudgeon-like complaint.
What's the deal with receipts these days? They're getting longer and longer. One of the worst offenders I've noticed is my local CVS pharmacy. I went in to my CVS recently to buy a small electric fan. I purchased only the one item for $14.99 plus tax. Sounds like a small transaction, right? Wrong!
The receipt for this seemingly innocuous transaction was long. So freakishly long, in fact, that I was compelled to measure it. Upon doing so I found the menial retail documentation to measure 29.875 inches long. Nearly 30 inches! For one item! That's longer than my left arm! Can you imagine the length if I had gone on an over-the counter medicine shopping spree? At this rate of paperization, if I had purchased, say 50 items, the receipt would have measured 124 FEET long! 100 items would have been 248 feet. Nearly a football field! I could wallpaper my freakin' bathroom with that.
What possesses companies to do this? Are they trying to prove their worth by the length of their receipts? Perhaps they're compensating for something, I don't know. In this case, I say less is more.
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