Eggs
I bought a carton of eggs this morning.
The checkout register printed a seventeen-inch-long receipt.
- Five-eighths of an inch of empty space
- Store and pharmacy logos
- Store ID and director info
- “Valued Customer” number, timestamp, and what I assume is an ID for the self-checkout station I used
- “DAIRY” section title
- Item name and price
- Subtotal (for one item), tax (zero), and total (same as subtotal)
- Credit card info and amount charged to card
- Change (zero)
- “Total Number of Items Purchased = 1″
- Stylish double-row of asterisks (repeated later)
- Customer survey offer: Visit website, take survey, enter drawing to win a $100 gift card
- Same offer in Spanish
- Supermarket chain web address and toll-free customer service number
- “* PAID *”
- Second customer survey offer: Call toll-free number, take survey, enter code from receipt, copy down “Validation Code,” and get $2.00 off next shopping trip
- Unexplained barcode, presumably used for $2.00 coupon offer
- Second offer in Spanish
- One-and-a-third inches of empty space
In the words of my friend Ken: “You’re lucky you didn’t get another eleven receipts.”