{"id":1777,"date":"2016-03-11T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:45:18","slug":"a-retailer-saves-some-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"A Retailer Saves Some Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1591\" target=\"_blank\">how long receipts are getting\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and it looks like at least one retailer is doing the right thing. \u00a0I was shopping at Sprouts last night, and while the very nice cashier was going back to get me a new quart of milk because the one I had was leaking, I glanced at my receipt and noticed this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/receipt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1778\" src=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/receipt-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"receipt\" width=\"155\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/receipt-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/receipt.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the last line at the bottom: \u00a0CONTINUED ON BACK. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a 2-sided receipt! Obviously they needed to upgrade their printers, but the cost savings over the long run will probably more than make up for it and plus they&#8217;re doing the right thing for the environment. \u00a0 On the back it also allows you to get their ad emailed to you electronically instead of in the mail, which many companies are also doing these days.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Sprouts, and maybe someday Kmart, Rite-Aid, CVS and the others will follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I blogged about how long receipts are getting\u00a0\u00a0and it looks like at least one retailer is doing the right thing. \u00a0I was shopping at Sprouts last night, and while the very nice cashier was going back to get me a new quart of milk because the one I had was leaking, I <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1777\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}