California 'Skip the Slip' bill aims to cut waste, but comes with consumer, small business concerns

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Printed receipts would only be available upon request; businesses ignoring a couple of warnings could be fined $25 a day if unwanted receipts are printed.

on request. Businesses ignoring a couple of warnings could be fined $25 a day if unwanted receipts are printed.Consumer Federation of CaliforniaHe worries, though, about returns and exchanges if a receipt is declined, "When I buy something, I bought it for a reason. I do not intend to return it. Certainly don't know something is going to be defective before I bought it."No receipt often means no return or exchange.

Book Passage's Elaine Petrocelli likes the idea but worries, too, about the details. "A lot of small businesses, particularly, will find it very burdensome," she says. "I don't care much about the big businesses. They are going to have to give up those ads on their receipts." But small businesses? She says some may need help paying for new point-of-sale equipment allowing the "yes" or "no" question.

"I think you are going to need some grant system for businesses that can't afford to do it," she says. Ting tried to pass this legislation three years ago. He believes he has a better chance of success this time, because since the pandemic, we are using less cash.7OYS's consumer hotline is a free consumer mediation service for those in the San Francisco Bay Area. We assist individuals with consumer-related issues; we cannot assist on cases between businesses, or cases involving family law, criminal matters, landlord/tenant disputes, labor issues, or medical issues..

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It is so nice to see our legislators hard at work focusing on things like printed receipts while people are dying daily of Fentanyl overdoses and cities focus on housing first over drug and mental health treatment. 🙄

This is so lame and dumb.

Paper currency is ALSO a waste…Allow me to recycle it for you. 💰💰💰😉😉😉

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