Receipts

How come when you go into a supermarket and the cashier asks if you'd like a receipt the majority of people now say NO? Does nobody ever check their bill in case of any genuine mistakes?

Ive noticed that, Riocaroni.
I always ask for a receipt if there is none forthcoming.
It has benefited me on a few occasions especially when items are reduced on the the shelf but they have forgot to tell the scanning machine!

Rio I check my receipt even though they have put less information on them( no product codes in the middle) . The last time I had shopped they had charged me for apples twice and there was an offer on pop 2 bottles for £3-50 but they charged me £2 a bottle a difference of in total £2-09 which is better in my pocket than the supermarket And I double check the card reader to make sure the amount is right before I swipe my card I slipped up a few weeks ago when I bought two packets of seeds and did not take a receipt and when I got home found the offer was for a third packet FREE NO prove with not having the receipt

Of course there's always the fact that you need a receipt if you wish to return an item, and the good old security guard asks for one on your way out to prove you actually paid for your goods.

A receipt is proof you have paid.

Always...proof of purchase....without it items are difficult to exchange/return...as First Mate says...them security men/women are lurking and ready to pounce.

They ask you if you want a receipt to save paper and keep a few more trees alive, also as regards proof of payment, in Asda each checkout as it's own overhead camera recording each transaction, and I found that out when upon reaching the car with me shopping, and thinking my checkout amount had been a bit high, and when I looked on the receipt I had been charged twice for an item, which cost a few quid, so me shopping was already in the boot, so I left it there and went back in the store, and went back to the checkout and told the lady on there what had happened, she told me to go to customers services and said that they would sort it out, customer services rang through to security, and they gave them some details from the receipt, what the item was, which checkout, transaction number, and the time of transaction, and they looked at the video, to see if I had only bought the one item, after confirming that only one item had been purchased, customer services then gave me a printed voucher to the value of the overcharge

do you give receipts in your taxi?

Basil

I don't drive a taxi

have you retired?

No

but you used be a taxi driver, remember when you filmed a fellow taxi driver selling bacca out of the boot of his taxi

If I'm not offered a receipt, I ask for one, always. And I always check them too.

Me too always because, because its proof you paid and if the buzzer sounded as you exit the soopermarket, without the proof, your in troubled waters...

My thinking precisely Tom.

Yes, I always ask for a receipt to show what I've bought, not just a final amount, but one that's detailed. As you say Tom, it's the only proof you have of what you've paid for.