Just learned that cash register receipts are FULL of BPA

[klad]

@kickthichphattiren689 It is & you’re the only one who said that. I would never make such a statement. Anyone could get hit by a car tomorrow. Or die any manner or ways.

I clearly said “vegans live on average ten years longer.” Ditch meat & live another decade” is a gross oversimplification of what I said. As if you totally skipped over the “on average” part.

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@klad

It is & you’re the only one who said that. I would never make such a statement.

This is an exact quote of yours:

Vegans live on average 10 years longer.

ETA: It is scary. And it’s avoidable to get a dietary caused cancer.

Just don’t consume certain meats.

This is, in fact, implying that the nonconsumption of certain meats is the direct reason that vegans live on average 10 years longer. You are, in fact, making “such a statement”.

 

[al8115]

@klad I actually limit my meat intake for both that and environmental reasons, and when I do eat meat, it's typically chicken.

So yeah, no shocker on that one.

 

[klad]

@al8115 That’s good!

 

[dotecoat]

@al8115 Yes they’re toxic! & using hand sanitizer afterwards makes the absorption worse.

source

 

[yoshichicka]

@dotecoat Oh awesome. Cause thats what Ive been doing. Super cool!

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@yoshichicka Hand sanitiser is way overused IMHO. It's great for germs, but soap and water is great for germs and dirt and chemical residue and pretty much everything else you'd want to get off your hands on a daily basis. Yet people use hand sanitiser because it's quicker, despite it being like chewing gum instead of brushing one's teeth.

 

[beaub]

@kickthichphattiren689 I worked with a woman who didn't wash her hands after going to the toilet because the water in the bathroom was cold, so it "wasn't hot enough to kill germs" - she used hand sanitiser instead (and only a small amount, not nearly enough to truly sanitise her hands).

Everyone bitched about her behind her back but I straight up told her that it's not the heat of the water that cleans your hands, it's the soap and the action of scrubbing surfactants over your hands.

 

[noldoxis]

@dotecoat What an oddly specific link that is also slightly infuriating to find out (thank you for sharing! It's just wild how much we barely understand about so many chemicals.)

 

[godsgatekeeper]

@dotecoat I did such a double take at this! How shitty

 

[biancacarlton88]

@al8115 Oh dear, I work in retail and hand people their receipts all day long

 

[daxy24]

@biancacarlton88 Would it bother you if you extended a receipt to a customer, and they said (politely), “No thank you” and walked away?

 

[jasonclegg]

@daxy24 I worked retail for years. This would bug me ONLY because 9/10 there's an option to email the receipt. Like just let me email it to you. This probably wouldn't be an option at a grocery store, but places like CVS most large clothing stores have this option.

Plus it saves paper and creates less waste.

If you don't like spam emails I HIGHLY recommend making a "initials or name"shops @ choice of mail.com

It keeps your inbox clean and lets you sign up for birthday rewards and can find receipts easier!

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@jasonclegg Except sometimes I simply don't want a receipt. I shouldn't have to divulge my e-mail address or create a new one just to get rid of the paper receipt. Our relationship is strictly transactional in nature. You don't need to be able to contact me. I'll know where to find you the next time I need a pack of gum or whatever.

Frankly, I think all receipts should just be sent and stored over the credit card network. That would make it easier to investigate fraudulent usage as well.

 

[cutin]

@kickthichphattiren689 TBH this effectively already is true. Any store that is using EPOS (which is 99.99% most likely) has an electronic record of every single transaction and can reprint a receipt at any time. If you need to get that receipt reprinted, you can just take the card statement showing the date and time of the transaction along with the item(s) purchased and the store clerk can search transactions and find yours. They just don't generally do this - perhaps because the idea is that the receipt is a one-time-token and they don't want multiple people scamming them (whether this would even happen or not, IDK).

When I last worked retail we would search items all the time and be able to bring up every single transaction involving that barcode in the history of the store. It's not difficult to do.

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@cutin Ah, I think you're misunderstanding me. What I mean is that the receipts should be actually sent to the credit card issuer, so the card holder can see them all centrally in their banking app or whatever.

 

[cutin]

@kickthichphattiren689 No, I just think that would be crazily insecure. It makes sense to have them stored at the vendor's side since they are already there.

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@cutin How would it be insecure, let alone crazily? It's not as if the credit card network isn't already set up to send transactional data in a secure manner. Literally all we're talking about here are a few extra bytes in the payload.

In fact, this is pretty much standard for modern payment solutions. Credit cards are pretty legacy in terms of features.

 

[anndryperez]

@kickthichphattiren689 I'm already uncomfortable with how much information my credit card issuer has on me by seeing how much I paid on a given date at a given shop. I don't want them to have detailed information of all of my purchases.

I know that stores can already easily track purchases made with the same credit card but at least they're not going to share that with their competitors. If it were sent to credit card company, they'd be able to correlate everything and get an even more complete profile of each of us.

 

[kickthichphattiren689]

@anndryperez

I'm already uncomfortable with how much information my credit card issuer has on me by seeing how much I paid on a given date at a given shop. I don't want them to have detailed information of all of my purchases.

I'm more integrity conscious than most people, so I definitely see where you're coming from. My counterargument would actually be just what you brought up: issuers already see how much you paid, when you paid it, and where you paid it. If I'm buying something sensitive I'm already not buying it with a card.

I'd also argue that any sort of shenanigans could be curbed with privacy laws, but depending on where you live I could understand if you don't find that a realistic way forward.