Have you noticed how shopping dockets seem to get longer and longer?
I have just been to Big W to pick up a hooded kitty litter tray. That was the only item I purchased and the docket for the one item is nearly ½ metre long. (Ok, I am exaggerating a little bit here, it is actually just a tad under 40cm long.)
Now, Big W is not the only culprit producing extremely long dockets. Some BP service petrol stations produce huge dockets as well just for a simple purchase of petrol with nothing else.
You may now think, what's the problem with a long docket? It's just a piece of paper. The way I see it there are multiple things wrong with excessively long dockets.
- It is wasteful. While everyone is talking about saving the environment and lowering greenhouse gas emissions shops introduce longer dockets using up more paper.
- Some of these dockets are not even normal paper but thermal transfer paper which I would not be surprised used some kind of toxic substance.
- You can't stick such a long docket in your wallet without performing a little origami trick first as the dockets are too big.
If you have come across some shops that produce ridiculously long dockets why don't you leave a comment with the shops name and maybe we can shame them into producing more reasonably sized dockets again.
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