Free firelighters
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Not the glossy stuff - clogs up the fire - but the newspaper-like crappy stuff works fine!
You can get free “Stop Pub” stickers from rubbish collection people (ours is Sidom, but names vary). And since Jan 1st this year if you have one of these on your letter box it is illegal to put advertising in it.
We don’t, and use the paper as best we can, as the cost of delivering it helps keeps the postal service running.
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That’s why we keep it too…
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Leclerc in Redon, Bretagne have been doing this for several years and one of the great advantages for the customer is when that thing you bought with a 10 year guarantee breaks down in just 3 years (eg Phillips bulbs) you have the receipt on your computer which otherwise would have faded away. Till receipts seem to be programmed to fade away in under a year. Coupled with Scan Achat I often discover that the price on the shelf is not what I am being charged when I scan. The other day I bought something which was priced on the shelf at 49.95 but on Scan Achat it was charged at 54.95. I was not a happy chappy but I won. A week later the difference in price was still there. Not a mistake but a crime.
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Great idea, it all helps just one problem, how many times are the till receipts wrong, its fairly regular, and one your home, not sure if you went back at your expense, that they would honour the mistake.
Hopefully the can stop the use of Chèques too because it takes so long for some people to do
We like cheques.
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Thankfully it’s mostly the older generation still using them
Why do prefer them to a debit card?
Strange how different countries have different preferences…Scandinavian countries don’t like cash, Vitally no retailers will accept cheques in UK, all plastic or iPhone wallet, French still use cheques and retailers accept them without even identification, and Germany has the lowest use of dr cards and consumer debt in EU.
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Good point.
Associations and schools and activity places like them, (and they always ask when you want them to present it, it is convenient for you) possibly makes you more responsible than a card which is processed in an instant, you have a record of all your cheque transactions conveniently to hand, easy to trace, cheaper to process, simple for the people who deal with accounts for assos to sort out, certainly easier for me to collect cheques so I can buy/collect/deliver the 100 odd copies of the same edition of novels I order from my local bookshop for my pupils every year…
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It also tells me when there is an offer that I could be interested in, Label Rouge chickens , NZ legs of lamb etc.
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Nope. All our French gîte clients us them, and they are of all ages. It has been very useful over last year as people can send a cheque with their deposits, but we hold onto it until sure that they can travel. We have a young (we presume, as have requested baby equipment) family booked on 5th May, and have been holding onto their cheque since February.
Which we will now pay in! Youpi, we can go away too…
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All a bit ‘greenwashing’. All emails add to our carbon footprint!
The rough rule of thumb is that it costs an organisation about 10x the amount to process a cheque compared to an card payment through a terminal…and a payment taken over the phone is about 5times.
My last job in England was to deliver a project for a local authority to reduce the cost of processing 210,000 cheques received annually saving in excess of £160,000…a significant amount being in bank charges. I’m sure the principle holds true for French business.
Convenient yes, dated methodology yes, efficient definitely not.!!
I had a similar efficiency role switching all clients to Direct Debit from cheques & internet payments - the introduced efficiencies were dramatic.
Halfords have been using email receipts for simply ages in the UK. I havea folder in my mailbox. I am much less likely to lose an email receipt than a scrappy piece of paper.
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And I know from reading something yesterday, that if you have a gmail account you can have as many email addresses as takes your fancy for just this very purpose. If your gmail account is, say “somebody” @gmail.com you can add either a fullstop or + to the name (like some.body or somebody+halfords) and the email will still get to you without further effort or the need for additional accounts. This can be extremely useful of course for checking if your email address has been “sold off” to a third party and by whom 
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Seems to me that the situation is going to be that you have to remember to ask directly for a receipt (I assume shops will still legally have to be able to provide one at point of sale) or have a loyalty card swiped meaning carrying a multitude if you regularly use say Casino, Mr Bricolarge, Brico Depot, Point Vert, Super U …and then get mailed regularly with their "promotions…hey ho, that’s consumer progress for you and saving the planet!