The supermarket chain aims to save 400 tons of paper per year by stopping the automatic printing of purchase receipts.
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Less paper will in future pass through Coop checkouts.
“Do you want your ticket?” For a long time, supermarket customers have been used to hearing the question asked by checkout employees. And when customers say no, the ticket still comes out and usually goes straight to the trash. The fate of tickets is often the same when customers take them with them and fill the first bin on the way out.
From Tuesday 1is March is over, at least at the Coop. As is already the case at automatic self-checkout checkouts, where the customer can press the “Print ticket” button otherwise it will not be printed, the paper will no longer come out by default at the checkouts where the employees work. From now on, you will have to ask them expressly if you want to receive the receipt. The policy will be introduced in supermarkets, the food sections of Coop City, as well as Coop to go in stations, in particular. The measure could, according to Coop, save nearly 400 tonnes of paper per year.
Migros: only via Cumulus
On the side of Migros, the automatic and generalized stoppage of the printing of tickets is not planned, but the cooperative points out that it is already possible, via its Cumulus account, to choose not to receive a physical ticket but under digital form on his account. On the other hand, for all customers not registered with the Cumulus program, whether at the normal checkouts or at the automatic checkouts, the ticket is issued without prior choice. Moreover, in many Migros, a trash can is placed directly under the location from which the receipts come out.
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It is not placed there by chance.