The purchase receipt in the stores is to become digital step by step.
The project is already being tested in some branches.
Karlsruhe - The drugstore chain dm is introducing a digital receipt.
This is currently reported by the
food newspaper
.
This is available on request.
The store has added a function to its app for this purpose: a QR code must be scanned at the checkout for the non-paper purchase receipt.
The project will first be tested in selected branches.
At the same time as the “e-voucher”, “for technical reasons” shoppers should initially continue to receive a paper receipt.
The
food
newspaper reports that dm is considered to be the “pioneer” of the e-voucher
.
The dealer had already offered it from 2012 to 2018.
Digital receipt: Edeka and Netto for more sustainability too
Receipts use a lot of paper, but that's not sustainable.
The supermarket chains Edeka and Netto also wanted to counteract this this summer, as the
Hamburger Abendblatt
reported at the time.
The consumption of receipt paper rolls in the nationwide 670 Edeka stores is 30 pieces per day.
That should be reduced by 20 percent with an e-voucher.
According to
ruhr24.de,
Lidl is
making
a similar move
.
Since 2020, the colloquial “receipt requirement” has been in effect in Germany, even for a few cents.
The reason: The amounts should not bypass the tax authorities.
Because of the high resource consumption, however, there were protests - traders, for example, tipped buckets of receipts in front of their counters:
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Protest against the receipt requirement: the collected notes from two days in a bakery.
© Michael Tenk / dpa
Annual paper consumption for receipts: Wrap the earth 50 times
A bill from the
world
for the introduction of mandatory receipts made the problem clear: With the amount of receipts printed out annually, one could cover 43 soccer fields or wrap the equator 50 times, the newspaper wrote.
There have long been numerous independent apps for digital receipts.
However, the
t3n
magazine drew a sobering balance sheet at the beginning of the year.
"Whether Epap, Green Bill, Anybill or Wunderbon - none of the startups we wrote about a year ago really made a breakthrough in retail," says a report.
Because it is unclear how many people use them.
"All in all, industry experts go from perhaps 25,000 to 50,000 users from the respective apps - nothing more," it said.
(frs)