I’m curious of how big the roll of receipt tape is, when I worked in retail, putting a new roll in was annoying especially when you were busy. These rolls must be huge!
Have you really forgotten already most people wouldn't even leave their house let alone go to a public place or a store That's the reason the delivery services like instacart Blew up so quickly
Maybe. Newsprint is much easier to recycle and also to use recycled material due to the coarse grain structure. I'm not sure how that coating effects the recylabilty. I do know that it requires a much higher quality although much thinner paper.
The problem with the discounts at CVS for retail items is that their prices are so high that the coupon typically just gets the price down to about where it should have been in the first place. I was in CVS picking up a prescription and thought I'd grab a couple bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide. I was kind of surprised to see they were all $3+ a bottle! But, if I went across the parking lot to Walmart the same thing was 99 cents!!! Even with a big discount, you would be likely still be paying more!
It's another marketing ploy to trick people into thinking they are getting a deal. They try that with clearance items too ( even Wally and Tarje do it).
My issue with the coupons I was getting is that they were usually for the very items I had JUST bought, and expired far sooner than I would need to buy those items again. When I got the chance to have them email me the receipt, I immediately did, then put those emails on my spam filter.
@@CrazedComposure No, paper junk mail still exists, much to my annoyance every time I check the mail. My mail carrier delivers me about 5 or 6 times more trash than actual mail. Sending so much trash should be illegal, but it's likely where most of the USPS funding comes from so they're definitely not going to prevent it. I just make it a practice to boycott anyone who sends me such trash if I bother to even look at it: politician, not voting for them; store, not shopping there; credit card, absolutely not ever; somewhere I've previously shopped, well not going there again. I also don't return to stores I find have ridiculous receipts like this. Such wasteful obnoxiousness should never we rewarded no matter how necessary advertisement might be.
It’s not really “personalized” though… we keep getting coupons for makeup and skin care stuff that we’ve never bought, and we’d get ones for baby stuff long before we actually had a kid… unless… CVS receipts predict the future!
Why pay an overpriced tarrot card prediction, when you can go to cvs to for a much cheaper future prediction. They'll even throw in a bonus chapstick and a snickers bar
@@cavemanindustries5102 This somehow reminds me of the story (don't know if it's true, but at least the story makes sense, somehow...) of the teenage girl getting sent special offers (from some company or other) for all kinds of baby stuff. Dad wasn't amused and demanded they stop those offers - their answer: these offers are automatically selected by algorithm, depending on prior sales. Then, the daughter made a pregnancy test... Result: The algorithm knew she was pregnant weeks before she herself knew...
@@CoPoint i feel like I've heard that too. "Don't look up" on netflix explores this idea a tiny bit for part of the plot which is what made me think of it. But its probably true lol. Or at least it will be someday.
@@DonoVideoProductions I'm not sure if walmart does eMail receipts but other places will flood your email with junk if you give them your email for a e-receipt.
@@rogerclarke7407 Yes they will. And more and more, even small businesses are jumping on the e-reciept bandwagon, because they can sell they lists and get $$$. I might have to go back to paying by check just to get a receipt! Oh yeah, most places won't take those anymore. I suppose the best would be to print out the credit card statements for the year, to have a trail. But again, if you pay cash, you're SOL.
I remember a story like this. A woman moved into an apartment and the vertical blinds were missing a slat. She went on a quick shopping trip to CVS for snacks and >pouf< problem solved.
A tip from a broke college student: Flip the blind upside down and use a hole-punch to make a new hole for reattachment. Additionally, you could cut off the old broken part. If you do it evenly, It’ll be about a cm shorter, but works like new. 👍🏽😁
I once got a receipt from CVS that was longer than I am tall. I'm 6'2". All of the coupons were for things I would never need (like feminine hygiene products - I am a male).
I never look at my receipts past the actual items I bought. And only when I think the total may be wrong. I throw all mailed advertisements away in the bin beside the mailbox. In my 59 years of shopping I rarely ever found something that I buy or the sales would be over before the next time I went shipping. The time it takes to save money is not worth it.
@Lester Bilyou why would I pay $50 for a supplement to begin with? It's likely under $25 at every store that isn't a pharmacy. It's definitely available on Amazon for that price
@Lester Bilyou I'm a single person living alone, so I go through things so slowly that it's often not convenient to buy multiple of them in one sitting. There's also the matter of storage space. Regardless of all of that though, the main reason is that if the store is putting on a sale for buy one get one, I almost guarantee you that another store in the local area has that item for half price anyway, and you wouldn't have to bother with the coupons to get it.
The king of ultra long receipts was Fry’s Electronics in Southern California, even for simple items without warranty-especially the multiple copies that went who knows where. I think a part of the reason they went belly-up was the cost receipt paper.
Back when I lived closer to a CVS, I'd go in and scan my card on the little coupon printer in the middle of the store. It would give me one for candy almost every time, and I used it EVERY TIME.
I'm weirdly proud that I've not once gotten a coupon that was relevant to my interests. The less these corporations know about me, the better. Until society comes to terms with how to safely store data, I don't want mine out there
Honestly, I try to avoid CVS as much as possible because of those damned receipts. They often don't even let me say 'No thanks' to getting one. I don't need that clutter in my life.
That's funny because I because I tell them I don't need the receipt almost all the time and the girl would just throw it away but since then over the last year and a 1/2 or so CVS offers a paperless option are you gonna do ask I mean for the 1st 6 months of them doing it I was personally asked every time I went into the store right up until I did it
Walgreens doesn't put the coupons on their receipts anyway. They come from a separate printer and have for several years now. They still print out the coupon for you even though you have paperless receipts. I walked out of one yesterday with no receipt but I had my coupon for the next time I go in.
@@grahf4215 For Boots, which is the UK division of Walgreens, you load the coupons onto your Advantage Card by selecting them in the app, and then they are automatically applied at checkout. Morrisons, a local supermarket chain, does the same thing. Sainsburys, another local supermarket chain, automatically applies them without you having to select them, but you can log in to see which ones are currently active and when they expire.
5:40 Wait, the only reason you think this long receipt is working is CVS' revenue growth? I'm sure there are companies who grew as much or more without having long receipts. Also, many retailers aren't copying the practice so they probably have reasons to believe the CVS growth is not attributable to long receipts, no?
Exactly my thoughts. That kind of marginal growth is nothing impressive. It's following normal market expansion and keeping up with inflation and population growth. I don't think CVS are too "happy" with those numbers. To make such an assumption (that long receipts are profitable) from those numbers is a huge reach.
When I found out about the option to email the receipt the next time I was in CVS I asked about signing up. The cashier didn't know it could be done. Thus was about 3 or 4 years ago. He did figure out how to do to it and I haven't looked back. I have my loyalty account linked to my pharmacy prescriptions so whenever I pick up a prescription the receipt is automatically emailed to me. Yesterday I was picking up a prescription and it asked if I wanted the receipt emailed, printed, or both. I notice more and more stores are providing the option to have the receipt emailed.
Having never heard of a CVS before looking at the thumbnail, I guessed that it was so that you couldn't tell what/how much someone bought at a pharmacy
@@DavidKen878 the total price, yes, but I was thinking that maybe it would hide the specific drugs and medicines using a default length/template... sounds improbable, I know, but I couldn't really fathom why they would waste paper for consistently longer receipts before watching the video
@@codycast CVS is only in America. The other brands you mentioned are international. It’s prob not someone being ignorant, they’re just prob not from the US.
CVS should go digital. Make an app and an in-app cash with tabs that detail your deals earned and the things you spent on and the costs. That way, no more paper reciepts.
They’ve have digital options for years now. People just don’t care enough to switch to email and the same people that gripe about the receipts are on the ones that won’t go digital.
More than once, I told a CVS checkout person that I: Didn't have a CVS discount card anymore & that I Didn't want a receipt because not only were the receipts too long, but they only gave discounts on what I HAD ALREADY BOUGHT!!! The discounts would have expired by the time i would have needed more. Since the pandemic, I note that some stores have a place on the bank card reader for "no receipt". Love it!
they should just go digital. put a special code on the receipt or something that allows them access to coupons from an app. maybe even link their rewards card to an account that has access to those receipts and pop up prompts on the register when they use it in combination with items being purchased with the option to use the coupon or not.
@Cassandra Tafoya Exactly this. CVS stores are a mix of 50/50 of those who are elderly and those that are tech savvy. Most elderly customers don’t know what an email is and won’t opt in for email receipts and prefer physical paper coupons while more tech savvy customers send coupons from an app to their rewards card as well as their receipt. It’s a system that has worked for a long time and net CVS the most profit, which in a way, works.
.. i mean.. they are lol... just select the box to email your receipts in your account. the coupons will be in the email and you send them to your cvs card.
I work at CVS, and there have been countless people who smiled at me and started laughing after getting a 3 foot long receipt. It happens like everyday.
I don’t know anyone that looks at the bill. This is a disgusting use of paper people should stop shopping at places that do this. People are being hammered that we need to reduce consumption but cooperations keep doing this kind of stuff.
I get really irritated when I look at the coupons I'm offered on these receipts. They are usually for items I have no interest in and expire in days. I would much rather be asked it I want them or have an option when I signed up for the rewards.
If you have the CVS app or go online, on Saturdays the coupons for the week are there and you can "clip" them to extend to the coming Saturday. Now, if you bought an item and opted for the paper receipt some coupons will print at the end, but all the others you can have a choice on. Why I tend to shop at the end of the week instead of the beginning.
I had noticed over the years of buying the Sunday paper just for the store ads, I noticed I was getting less and less coupons. Now the stores are pushing get a card, 'join the store club', and doing coupons that way.
Yeah, you obviously don't understand how the world works. Advertising drives sales and as long as it works, companies will keep doing it. They don't advertising just to annoy you -- that's a fringe benefit.
I don't live in the US, so I fortunately don't have to deal with these monster receipts. However, receipts from Walmart and the Real Canadian Superstore are probably the worst offenders in my corner of southwestern British Columbia. My local Walmarts, for example, like to print a big graphic at the top of their receipts promoting their "give us feedback, enter to win prizes" thing, and then repeat the same message in text at the end. No coupons wasting space, but their receipts are still _much_ longer than necessary.
Here in Portugal, the companies started issuing Customer Cards and, at first, send those coupons via mail. Then, they created an app and discontinued the mail service. People made backlash and they created some software that had a POS in the store so the customer can print the coupons in store. It worked!
Jokes on CVS. I rarely go there but still type in my parents phone number, get a receipt longer than I am (5'8") and toss it without reading it 99% of the time.
You should at least glance at some of it.. You would be surprised how many people lose out on their Extra Bucks. A lot of the items in the stores come with them.
The many comments in this section are the most amusing I've ever read in all the years I've viewed RUclips. Many are _tongue-in-cheek;_ laced with sarcasm; or flat-out poke fun with an absurd aspect of CVS's long paper receipts. Thanks for cheering up my day! xD
It just goes to show that the reports of the death of print are greatly exaggerated. Printed media carries a weight and has an impact that digital simply does not. Many people (especially older ones that have more disposable income) prefer a physical item they can hold in their hands.
Yall want to check out the receipts in Morrisons in the UK. You can do a weeks shop and receive a receipt around the same size as the convenience store receipt. They also printed any coupons on the reverse for a long while.
We went to just having the receipts e-mailed. Since we're digitally putting the coupons on our card anyway (vs having to carry around little pieces of paper that we always forgot about) it made a lot more sense. It's also a lot easier if/when I have to submit a receipt for reimbursement; the paper receipts are way too unwieldy to easily get a good picture of both what you bought and the date you bought it.
oh it gets worse, at the place I used to work the computer would print a receipt for every order that day at closing, even online orders, and we had no use for them; we just set up the trash can right next to the printer and straight in they went
Because in many areas CVS is the only option. I live in Staten Island, NY and CVS is the only option for me. It's always crowded. The pharmacy line is typically long, even the drive thru line is long. They get you in to pick up your prescription and then you browse for other items. It's also right next to a bus stop where busses into Manhattan stop. I know my son will sometimes pop in that CVS on his way to work because convenience.
There are two things that are unnecessarily long, CVS receipts and this video. The video could have been: "Boomers liked circulars, todays shoppers don't. Now the circular is printed on your receipt." 8 minutes to say that LOL.
That's genius. Print coupons on receipts that more than half of customers throw away, then fewer people redeem coupons. More people pay full price for things. Print them on heat-sensitive paper, so the coupons fade away in a few weeks. More people pay full price for things. Make the paperless option harder to subscribe to, or too creepy for people to want to join. More people take printed receipts, and like the above, more people pay full price for things.
Well, why are you watching American made shows, if you’re constantly going to compare it to Europe? That’s torture. Don’t be a masochist. At the end of the day, Europe needs us-you need us. Brit’s are even more pretentious and sarcastic than Americans. unbelievable
@@swankyangelo8527 instead of being an angry American you could open your eyes and see what things would be great to have in your country too. A little eco-friendliness would improve the air you breathe in and the water you drink. And it would help a bit against global warming America feels like a big real life soap for me. We joke about the US the way you guys joke about Florida.
@@swankyangelo8527 No, Europe is FAR better than America, and I am saying this as a lifelong American. Almost everything is better in Europe. They have progressed beyond us, and we have catching up to do.
I think most stores in Denmark as this point will ask you if you want your receipt, and if you say no, they won't print it. If you want to join the targeted advertising bonus program thing, you get a piece of plastic with a barcode on it, that you can put on your keychain (or of course, nowadays they have apps). It probably doesn't convert as well as receipts in cultures where keeping the receipt is commonplace, but it seems much more responsible. Until you get to the self-checkout things where you need the receipt to exit the store, and they of course make sure to print you an extra long one to compensate for the ones the cashiers aren't printing...
You know why "the redemption is not what it used to be"? Because they aren't putting coupons in them. All my flyers come with ads about things on sale but nothing in there has a special coupon, or call to action, to get me to clip and go in. When there are coupons on things I clip and buy. When there are store coupons, or coupon stickers I'll use them and buy stuff. But if u just put out a weekly catalogue basically I have no reason to head in there. Things are "on sale" all the time. But coupons, actual coupons are rare (at least here), and will get me to clip and buy.
My roommate works at CVS, he’s seen people bring $80 worth of stuff to the counter and then use coupons until it’s $10. If you’re dedicated and loyal enough you can save a lot of money.
They don't make paper from all the trees there are they only make paper from one tree in particular that grows to full maturity in about 15 to 20 years. So they actually plant more trees based on how much paper is being used and the future projections based on that number.
Someone actually went out of their way to get a CVS receipt, stretch it out on a couch, then take a picture and put it on Twitter just in hopes someone clicks on it or even cares enough to look at it? Someone has exciting life
I have never once found a coupon on a CVS receipt that I wanted. And even if I did, I would have to use them in a week...when I just finished my shopping there. Why do I want to buy ANOTHER toothbrush when I just purchased one? As a matter of course, I immediately take the receipt, tear off the crap at the bottom of the actual recipt, crunch it up, and throw it in their bin on the way out. They push it on me...they can be responsible for recycling it.
just to add to this (cvs cashier here): after every transaction each shopper now (2022) has the ability to select a paper, email, or no receipt with their transaction
The irony of Cheddar doing this video. Every Cheddar video is 4 - 5 times longer than it needs to be. This video could have been 2 - 3 minutes long ang covered the same information.
"No two customers get the same savings or offers" When companies play games like this and just can't offer a simple product for a reasonable price...I don't shop there.
In Canada there isn't CVS so I originally thought the oversized receipts were so that people would be more likely to throw them out/have them get damaged and not be able to return products
The best solution I have ever seen is an option for either a printed receipt, an emailed receipt, both, or none. I typically avoid getting receipts for things not business related. Dollar General moved from a single long receipt to a receipt and several smaller coupons which print after.
I'm worried about the potential privacy abuses of targeted ads and coupons from a pharmacy. I mean, pharmacies are where people may go for condoms, birth control pills, pregnancy tests, diapers, smoking cessation aids, and niche over-the-counter treatments for illnesses that won't be in a supermarket. That can give them valuable but invasive clues about what's going on in someone's life.
I'd like to remind people to try and not touch or limit their exposure to receipts- the normal heat printed kind. Most contain loads of BPA which is easily absorbed through the skin and has been shown to cause a variety of health problems. Check it out. edit: And DO NOT recycle them. They'll contaminate the recycled paper.
I mean, if they just make the receipts digital and attached to a phone App, they could make the coupons easier to see and use without a 6 foot Harry Potter essay.
What did you do over the w/e? Snuggled up w'/a good read by the fire (a CVS receipt). The long receipts can be recycled. Put them on the TP roller. We scan our receipts into PDF's. Long receipts make that difficult. This is one reason we avoid CVS. I'm sure the same offers and info can be condensed.
Buy a pack of gum. Use the receipt to throw away every piece of gum. CVS is GENIUS! 😂
With one receipt you have enough paper to go through a family pack of gum.
Same with tampons, nice and easy solution
Yeah, I've never even looked at the things.
@@breakingames7772 Never chewed one! 😂
I’m curious of how big the roll of receipt tape is, when I worked in retail, putting a new roll in was annoying especially when you were busy. These rolls must be huge!
It’s the same size roll. It takes 10 seconds to change. But yes there is an entire case tucked under the counter haha
You don't have to feed the paper through anything anymore and there is no ink to change (thermal paper). It's pretty easy now.
Industry standard is 80 x 80 thermal receipt rolls - 80mm wide by 80m long
The rolls are standard size and no they dont get refilled that often because so many people get emailed receipts.
Amazing waste of forests. It's also toxic, has BPA. Don't touch receipts. 🧾
They may not have planned it but I'm sure the CVS marketing department is happy that so many people are talking about them on TV and social media.
Or they may have...
they'll be happy.... until they're not
I love how they attributed CVS doing well in 2021 because of receipt coupons.. and not Covid 😂
Yeah that's my biggest methodology problem here
Have you really forgotten already most people wouldn't even leave their house let alone go to a public place or a store That's the reason the delivery services like instacart Blew up so quickly
@@minorclips7541 no shit
I got my booster at CVS
You said it!
as far as the impact of paper, it's probably still a net reduction compared to the circulars they were printing.
Maybe.
Newsprint is much easier to recycle and also to use recycled material due to the coarse grain structure. I'm not sure how that coating effects the recylabilty.
I do know that it requires a much higher quality although much thinner paper.
The receipt style of paper is not recyclable tho, so arguably - still no
They still make tons of circulars.
The guilt is exponential increase
It’s still a lot. And doesn’t need to happen at all. Receipts can be totally digital. Why not-everything else is paperless now
The problem with the discounts at CVS for retail items is that their prices are so high that the coupon typically just gets the price down to about where it should have been in the first place. I was in CVS picking up a prescription and thought I'd grab a couple bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide. I was kind of surprised to see they were all $3+ a bottle! But, if I went across the parking lot to Walmart the same thing was 99 cents!!! Even with a big discount, you would be likely still be paying more!
Well of course it’s a friggin Walmart, Capitol of the cheap shit and weird customers
It's a scam
It's another marketing ploy to trick people into thinking they are getting a deal. They try that with clearance items too ( even Wally and Tarje do it).
There’s a chance that Wal Mart is selling pharmacy items at a loss to try to put that particular CVS out of business.
My issue with the coupons I was getting is that they were usually for the very items I had JUST bought, and expired far sooner than I would need to buy those items again.
When I got the chance to have them email me the receipt, I immediately did, then put those emails on my spam filter.
CVS founder's parents were killed by a rogue tree branch so he made the receipts long to kill trees faster.
fake news
I saw that on the news it did really happened
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Not the hero we wanted but the hero we might have needed 😂😂
@@joeybaseball7352 eraser etwyewes
when you take 8 minutes to say "they use the receipts in place of paper circulars". . . you ought to at least acknowledge the irony!
Thought the same thing 👍👍👍
But then you have to explain what paper circulars are. Most of the RUclips generation has never seen one, much less used the coupons in them!
@@CrazedComposure No, paper junk mail still exists, much to my annoyance every time I check the mail. My mail carrier delivers me about 5 or 6 times more trash than actual mail. Sending so much trash should be illegal, but it's likely where most of the USPS funding comes from so they're definitely not going to prevent it. I just make it a practice to boycott anyone who sends me such trash if I bother to even look at it: politician, not voting for them; store, not shopping there; credit card, absolutely not ever; somewhere I've previously shopped, well not going there again. I also don't return to stores I find have ridiculous receipts like this. Such wasteful obnoxiousness should never we rewarded no matter how necessary advertisement might be.
Thanks for this TL;DW :)
It’s not really “personalized” though… we keep getting coupons for makeup and skin care stuff that we’ve never bought, and we’d get ones for baby stuff long before we actually had a kid… unless… CVS receipts predict the future!
Cvs probably knows your future, statistically speaking, better than you do.
Why pay an overpriced tarrot card prediction, when you can go to cvs to for a much cheaper future prediction. They'll even throw in a bonus chapstick and a snickers bar
@@cavemanindustries5102 This somehow reminds me of the story (don't know if it's true, but at least the story makes sense, somehow...) of the teenage girl getting sent special offers (from some company or other) for all kinds of baby stuff. Dad wasn't amused and demanded they stop those offers - their answer: these offers are automatically selected by algorithm, depending on prior sales. Then, the daughter made a pregnancy test... Result: The algorithm knew she was pregnant weeks before she herself knew...
What am I , 35 year old single guy supposed to with female skin care product and baby formula coupons
@@CoPoint i feel like I've heard that too. "Don't look up" on netflix explores this idea a tiny bit for part of the plot which is what made me think of it. But its probably true lol. Or at least it will be someday.
my local cvs actually presented the option to email my receipt, i was shook!
It's a slick way to get your email address into their system
How long was the email? 🤣
Required by local law, likely
And then you can have their emails immediately put into your spam folder! Win-win!
Don't do it or else you will get advertisements daily.
My experience with walmart receipts is, if you keep them for warranty reasons they will be blank in a few months.
Yeah, I take pictures of expensive items. Now
Thermal paper
Yes. Good luck if you itemize for business and get audited...none of that thermal paper is viable after a year or two.
@@DonoVideoProductions I'm not sure if walmart does eMail receipts but other places will flood your email with junk if you give them your email for a e-receipt.
@@rogerclarke7407 Yes they will. And more and more, even small businesses are jumping on the e-reciept bandwagon, because they can sell they lists and get $$$. I might have to go back to paying by check just to get a receipt! Oh yeah, most places won't take those anymore. I suppose the best would be to print out the credit card statements for the year, to have a trail. But again, if you pay cash, you're SOL.
I like to use the receipts as replacement blinds when the plastic ones fall off. Perfect for the longer balcony window blinds too!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
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Good one 😂
I remember a story like this. A woman moved into an apartment and the vertical blinds were missing a slat. She went on a quick shopping trip to CVS for snacks and >pouf< problem solved.
A tip from a broke college student: Flip the blind upside down and use a hole-punch to make a new hole for reattachment. Additionally, you could cut off the old broken part. If you do it evenly, It’ll be about a cm shorter, but works like new. 👍🏽😁
I once got a receipt from CVS that was longer than I am tall. I'm 6'2". All of the coupons were for things I would never need (like feminine hygiene products - I am a male).
Maybe they considered it a gift suggestion or assumed based on your other purchases that you often buy for a lady in your life.
they might be investing in your future
Shareholders would be furious
@@watchcynthiag391 cvs suggests he is a femboy
Oh, you're a male right now. CVS KNOWS things...
I never look at my receipts past the actual items I bought. And only when I think the total may be wrong. I throw all mailed advertisements away in the bin beside the mailbox. In my 59 years of shopping I rarely ever found something that I buy or the sales would be over before the next time I went shipping. The time it takes to save money is not worth it.
I put in my wife's phone number at the register. My wife actually uses the coupons, so all this is her fault!!!
@Lester Bilyou That is the problem. I dont by the one of whatever suppliment. The coupons are not for the brand or item I might buy.
@@nancyannirvin4507 I totally feel u. I used to look, but rarely do they have the brand or whatever that I buy. 😫
@Lester Bilyou why would I pay $50 for a supplement to begin with?
It's likely under $25 at every store that isn't a pharmacy. It's definitely available on Amazon for that price
@Lester Bilyou I'm a single person living alone, so I go through things so slowly that it's often not convenient to buy multiple of them in one sitting. There's also the matter of storage space.
Regardless of all of that though, the main reason is that if the store is putting on a sale for buy one get one, I almost guarantee you that another store in the local area has that item for half price anyway, and you wouldn't have to bother with the coupons to get it.
The king of ultra long receipts was Fry’s Electronics in Southern California, even for simple items without warranty-especially the multiple copies that went who knows where. I think a part of the reason they went belly-up was the cost receipt paper.
I miss Frys so much. Best buy doesn't hold a candle to it.
@@maxswisher5476 and neither hold a candle to Microcenter
I heard one of their execs gambled away large amounts of money.
RIP
@@maxswisher5476 Me too. They were the replacement for Radio shack, only much better! Now, where to I buy a resistor?
Back when I lived closer to a CVS, I'd go in and scan my card on the little coupon printer in the middle of the store. It would give me one for candy almost every time, and I used it EVERY TIME.
One of the problems I have with CVS coupons is that they have very short expiration dates. If you don't use the coupon within a week, it's worthless.
They have too much restrictionsOnce I had one for$5 off if you spend $25 which I did but refused to honor it
@@zainoolrahman8840 thanks I needed something to laugh at
This. I’ve never found a coupon that works for me. It really feels like an effort to get me to spend more money for something I don’t need
to be fair, a lot of the coupons that you find in circular ads are also like this, I think it's just that they tend to be the ones that nobody uses
@@pennyforyourthots you're absolutely right
This entire video can be summed up in one sentence by saying, “coupons in circulars transitioned into being coupons on receipts.”
Thank you I actually just wanted to know why they were long. I didn’t actually feel like watching the video.
I'm weirdly proud that I've not once gotten a coupon that was relevant to my interests.
The less these corporations know about me, the better. Until society comes to terms with how to safely store data, I don't want mine out there
Honestly, I try to avoid CVS as much as possible because of those damned receipts. They often don't even let me say 'No thanks' to getting one. I don't need that clutter in my life.
That's funny because I because I tell them I don't need the receipt almost all the time and the girl would just throw it away but since then over the last year and a 1/2 or so CVS offers a paperless option are you gonna do ask I mean for the 1st 6 months of them doing it I was personally asked every time I went into the store right up until I did it
I'm a Walgreens shopper. I opted to go paperless I'm their app so I haven't gotten a receipt from them in at least a year.
Plus receipts have been shown to contain carcinogens. Just say no.
Walgreens doesn't put the coupons on their receipts anyway. They come from a separate printer and have for several years now. They still print out the coupon for you even though you have paperless receipts. I walked out of one yesterday with no receipt but I had my coupon for the next time I go in.
@@grahf4215 For Boots, which is the UK division of Walgreens, you load the coupons onto your Advantage Card by selecting them in the app, and then they are automatically applied at checkout.
Morrisons, a local supermarket chain, does the same thing. Sainsburys, another local supermarket chain, automatically applies them without you having to select them, but you can log in to see which ones are currently active and when they expire.
5:40 Wait, the only reason you think this long receipt is working is CVS' revenue growth?
I'm sure there are companies who grew as much or more without having long receipts.
Also, many retailers aren't copying the practice so they probably have reasons to believe the CVS growth is not attributable to long receipts, no?
Exactly my thoughts. That kind of marginal growth is nothing impressive. It's following normal market expansion and keeping up with inflation and population growth. I don't think CVS are too "happy" with those numbers. To make such an assumption (that long receipts are profitable) from those numbers is a huge reach.
When I found out about the option to email the receipt the next time I was in CVS I asked about signing up. The cashier didn't know it could be done. Thus was about 3 or 4 years ago. He did figure out how to do to it and I haven't looked back. I have my loyalty account linked to my pharmacy prescriptions so whenever I pick up a prescription the receipt is automatically emailed to me. Yesterday I was picking up a prescription and it asked if I wanted the receipt emailed, printed, or both. I notice more and more stores are providing the option to have the receipt emailed.
Some self checkouts also allow a paperless setting like some ATMs.
@@Nicholas-f5 I didn't even know CVS has a self checkout. None of the CVS stores near me have self checkout.
even that "standard sized" receipt was massie??
Having never heard of a CVS before looking at the thumbnail, I guessed that it was so that you couldn't tell what/how much someone bought at a pharmacy
But the receipt tells you how much was spent.
@@DavidKen878 the total price, yes, but I was thinking that maybe it would hide the specific drugs and medicines using a default length/template... sounds improbable, I know, but I couldn't really fathom why they would waste paper for consistently longer receipts before watching the video
CVS is massive. I’m wondering where you live? Have you heard of McDonald’s or Burger King or Nike?
@@codycast CVS is massive....in the USA only
@@codycast CVS is only in America. The other brands you mentioned are international. It’s prob not someone being ignorant, they’re just prob not from the US.
CVS should go digital. Make an app and an in-app cash with tabs that detail your deals earned and the things you spent on and the costs. That way, no more paper reciepts.
No thanks, don't care about your apps because I have a life.
@@LG123ABC you will not survive the coming few decades then, that thought process is antiquated and will go extinct
They do have an app and you can see recent purchases on their website.
They’ve have digital options for years now. People just don’t care enough to switch to email and the same people that gripe about the receipts are on the ones that won’t go digital.
It is kinda pointless, to make an entire 8 minute segment about the CVS receipts, and then not even once properly show what exactly is on them.
I think he had a 4.00 extra buck on that receipt from CVS.. He must shop there sort of often, because that was not for the gum or chapstick.
More than once, I told a CVS checkout person that I:
Didn't have a CVS discount card anymore & that I
Didn't want a receipt because not only were the receipts too long, but they only gave discounts on what I HAD ALREADY BOUGHT!!! The discounts would have expired by the time i would have needed more.
Since the pandemic, I note that some stores have a place on the bank card reader for "no receipt". Love it!
they should just go digital. put a special code on the receipt or something that allows them access to coupons from an app. maybe even link their rewards card to an account that has access to those receipts and pop up prompts on the register when they use it in combination with items being purchased with the option to use the coupon or not.
I was going to say *EXACTLY* the same thing. Especially with everyone using cellphones nowadays.
Or just put a QR code on the receipt to scan with your phone and get the coupon from there.
@@markvolpe2305 that's kinda what I meant. I think I tried to type barcode and it suto corrected to just code.
@Cassandra Tafoya Exactly this. CVS stores are a mix of 50/50 of those who are elderly and those that are tech savvy. Most elderly customers don’t know what an email is and won’t opt in for email receipts and prefer physical paper coupons while more tech savvy customers send coupons from an app to their rewards card as well as their receipt. It’s a system that has worked for a long time and net CVS the most profit, which in a way, works.
.. i mean.. they are lol... just select the box to email your receipts in your account. the coupons will be in the email and you send them to your cvs card.
I work at CVS, and there have been countless people who smiled at me and started laughing after getting a 3 foot long receipt.
It happens like everyday.
The trees are crying
This video comes at an odd time because I've noticed that (at least in NYC) CVS lets you opt out of getting a receipt now!
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I don’t know anyone that looks at the bill. This is a disgusting use of paper people should stop shopping at places that do this. People are being hammered that we need to reduce consumption but cooperations keep doing this kind of stuff.
I get really irritated when I look at the coupons I'm offered on these receipts. They are usually for items I have no interest in and expire in days. I would much rather be asked it I want them or have an option when I signed up for the rewards.
I kept getting really good ones, only to find out they were expired by a day.
If you have the CVS app or go online, on Saturdays the coupons for the week are there and you can "clip" them to extend to the coming Saturday. Now, if you bought an item and opted for the paper receipt some coupons will print at the end, but all the others you can have a choice on. Why I tend to shop at the end of the week instead of the beginning.
I had noticed over the years of buying the Sunday paper just for the store ads, I noticed I was getting less and less coupons. Now the stores are pushing get a card, 'join the store club', and doing coupons that way.
Just get rid of all ads, lower prices by 10% and everyone is happy.
Well, except the ad industry, but I don't care about them at all.
Yeah, you obviously don't understand how the world works. Advertising drives sales and as long as it works, companies will keep doing it. They don't advertising just to annoy you -- that's a fringe benefit.
I don't live in the US, so I fortunately don't have to deal with these monster receipts. However, receipts from Walmart and the Real Canadian Superstore are probably the worst offenders in my corner of southwestern British Columbia. My local Walmarts, for example, like to print a big graphic at the top of their receipts promoting their "give us feedback, enter to win prizes" thing, and then repeat the same message in text at the end. No coupons wasting space, but their receipts are still _much_ longer than necessary.
Here in Portugal, the companies started issuing Customer Cards and, at first, send those coupons via mail. Then, they created an app and discontinued the mail service. People made backlash and they created some software that had a POS in the store so the customer can print the coupons in store. It worked!
Jokes on CVS. I rarely go there but still type in my parents phone number, get a receipt longer than I am (5'8") and toss it without reading it 99% of the time.
You should at least glance at some of it.. You would be surprised how many people lose out on their Extra Bucks. A lot of the items in the stores come with them.
Does CVS track redemption rate? I'd be curious to know how effective it really is?
The many comments in this section are the most amusing I've ever read in all the years I've viewed RUclips. Many are _tongue-in-cheek;_ laced with sarcasm; or flat-out poke fun with an absurd aspect of CVS's long paper receipts.
Thanks for cheering up my day! xD
It just goes to show that the reports of the death of print are greatly exaggerated. Printed media carries a weight and has an impact that digital simply does not. Many people (especially older ones that have more disposable income) prefer a physical item they can hold in their hands.
Speaking about quitting a job , I quit working for CVS a few days ago 🥳
Good for you. I hate CVS
Answer: so you won't shop there. I haven't gone in at least 15 years because of this and the overall shabbiness of the store. Like a rundown Rite Aid.
So you choose not to shop at a store because of their receipt they give you? How ridiculous. 🤦🏽♂️
cvs is better than rite aid. you would know this if you went to one since 2007.
Rite aid is run down compared to cvs lol
@@DavidKen878 Yeah, it is a waste of paper. That is what is ridiculous.
@@filonin2 So is choosing not to shop at a store because of the lengths of their receipts.
Yall want to check out the receipts in Morrisons in the UK.
You can do a weeks shop and receive a receipt around the same size as the convenience store receipt.
They also printed any coupons on the reverse for a long while.
We went to just having the receipts e-mailed. Since we're digitally putting the coupons on our card anyway (vs having to carry around little pieces of paper that we always forgot about) it made a lot more sense. It's also a lot easier if/when I have to submit a receipt for reimbursement; the paper receipts are way too unwieldy to easily get a good picture of both what you bought and the date you bought it.
oh it gets worse, at the place I used to work the computer would print a receipt for every order that day at closing, even online orders, and we had no use for them; we just set up the trash can right next to the printer and straight in they went
Everything at cvs costs like 3 times more than it does anywhere else, even after discounts. I don’t get how these places stay in business
Because in many areas CVS is the only option. I live in Staten Island, NY and CVS is the only option for me. It's always crowded. The pharmacy line is typically long, even the drive thru line is long. They get you in to pick up your prescription and then you browse for other items. It's also right next to a bus stop where busses into Manhattan stop. I know my son will sometimes pop in that CVS on his way to work because convenience.
It's not for regular shopping it's for "holdup lemme run in real quick"
One word, Couponers.
It stays in business because it’s a pharmacy… they’re not making money from the products they sell. They’re making it off the drugs.
Everytime I buy something at CVS, I silently say to myself, "there goes another tree"
CVS is expensive store, for me its the last of last stores to check if walmart or other way cheaper stores
There are two things that are unnecessarily long, CVS receipts and this video.
The video could have been: "Boomers liked circulars, todays shoppers don't. Now the circular is printed on your receipt." 8 minutes to say that LOL.
It’s amazing advertising for them even this video is the best ad for CVS and it still cheaper than massive run of in mailbox advertising !!!!!
Typical coupon: SAVE 10 cents when you buy 30 spray cans of skunk-scented deodorant.
Why are your videos intentionally long? A 30 second explanation stretched out into an 8 minute video?
They are a washing machine
Why are your comments intentionally useless? Why are you commenting at all?
Ad revenue
That's genius. Print coupons on receipts that more than half of customers throw away, then fewer people redeem coupons. More people pay full price for things. Print them on heat-sensitive paper, so the coupons fade away in a few weeks. More people pay full price for things. Make the paperless option harder to subscribe to, or too creepy for people to want to join. More people take printed receipts, and like the above, more people pay full price for things.
I remember the hilariously long receipts my mom would get from Sears, so long that you probably were given one tree's worth of paper.
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Does CVS realize the most people are greatly annoyed by the receipts and throw them away!
In Europe this stuff wouldn't fly with the customers as they like their companies to be environmentally conscious, and wasting paper is not.
And we care because...?
Well, why are you watching American made shows, if you’re constantly going to compare it to Europe? That’s torture. Don’t be a masochist. At the end of the day, Europe needs us-you need us. Brit’s are even more pretentious and sarcastic than Americans. unbelievable
@@swankyangelo8527 instead of being an angry American you could open your eyes and see what things would be great to have in your country too. A little eco-friendliness would improve the air you breathe in and the water you drink. And it would help a bit against global warming
America feels like a big real life soap for me. We joke about the US the way you guys joke about Florida.
@@swankyangelo8527 Wow, you really are a sad little puppet.
@@swankyangelo8527 No, Europe is FAR better than America, and I am saying this as a lifelong American. Almost everything is better in Europe. They have progressed beyond us, and we have catching up to do.
During their last few years in business, K-Mart used to issue receipts I joked were enough paper to print a Stephen King novel. No more K-Mart.
Comically long receipt
Funniest shit I've ever seen
@Tiera Jusa what
Meanwhile, my local Safeway started using double sided receipt printers to reduce paper use.
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I think most stores in Denmark as this point will ask you if you want your receipt, and if you say no, they won't print it. If you want to join the targeted advertising bonus program thing, you get a piece of plastic with a barcode on it, that you can put on your keychain (or of course, nowadays they have apps). It probably doesn't convert as well as receipts in cultures where keeping the receipt is commonplace, but it seems much more responsible. Until you get to the self-checkout things where you need the receipt to exit the store, and they of course make sure to print you an extra long one to compensate for the ones the cashiers aren't printing...
CVS decided to try and personally undo all the efforts of places going paperless.
Even more ridiculous than the receipts is that it took you 8 min to say "it's so they can put coupons on them"
All those digital ads and yet not one coupon code "found" on the internet has ever worked for me.
Rite Aid would like to let everyone know you can check out at the photo desk if you have 4 or less items.
You know why "the redemption is not what it used to be"? Because they aren't putting coupons in them. All my flyers come with ads about things on sale but nothing in there has a special coupon, or call to action, to get me to clip and go in. When there are coupons on things I clip and buy. When there are store coupons, or coupon stickers I'll use them and buy stuff. But if u just put out a weekly catalogue basically I have no reason to head in there. Things are "on sale" all the time. But coupons, actual coupons are rare (at least here), and will get me to clip and buy.
The next video from Cheddar will be: "Why create an 8 min video to explain something that takes 10 seconds"
With our local QFC ads are printed on the back of the receipt the size stays the same
My roommate works at CVS, he’s seen people bring $80 worth of stuff to the counter and then use coupons until it’s $10. If you’re dedicated and loyal enough you can save a lot of money.
They don't make paper from all the trees there are they only make paper from one tree in particular that grows to full maturity in about 15 to 20 years. So they actually plant more trees based on how much paper is being used and the future projections based on that number.
Someone actually went out of their way to get a CVS receipt, stretch it out on a couch, then take a picture and put it on Twitter just in hopes someone clicks on it or even cares enough to look at it?
Someone has exciting life
I once saw an internet post where someone fixed a broken vertical blind with a CVS recipe
I have never once found a coupon on a CVS receipt that I wanted. And even if I did, I would have to use them in a week...when I just finished my shopping there. Why do I want to buy ANOTHER toothbrush when I just purchased one? As a matter of course, I immediately take the receipt, tear off the crap at the bottom of the actual recipt, crunch it up, and throw it in their bin on the way out. They push it on me...they can be responsible for recycling it.
just to add to this (cvs cashier here): after every transaction each shopper now (2022) has the ability to select a paper, email, or no receipt with their transaction
The irony of Cheddar doing this video. Every Cheddar video is 4 - 5 times longer than it needs to be. This video could have been 2 - 3 minutes long ang covered the same information.
"No two customers get the same savings or offers"
When companies play games like this and just can't offer a simple product for a reasonable price...I don't shop there.
Yup they got me with the coupons for the baby diapers I'm about to go use it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wyatt Cenac called, he wants his voice back.
Circular Ads gone to Receipts!
Literally those receipts have free reward bucks that you can use to pay off anything for your next purchase!
As a former grocery checker I also hated asking customers if they needed a double bag for there receipts.
In Canada there isn't CVS so I originally thought the oversized receipts were so that people would be more likely to throw them out/have them get damaged and not be able to return products
i appreciate the effort put into the video but it could really be summed up in one sentence "they put coupons on the receipt" lol
The best solution I have ever seen is an option for either a printed receipt, an emailed receipt, both, or none. I typically avoid getting receipts for things not business related. Dollar General moved from a single long receipt to a receipt and several smaller coupons which print after.
I've noticed that both Harbor Freight and Northern Tool are still both heavily reliant on circulars. I wonder why?
CVS receipts can be repurposed into vertical window blinds. 😆
4:04 the answer to the videos question in 3 seconds
"Hey there customer! I see you have come in here at 2:00 a.m. three times this year to get plan b pills. Try our condoms 20% off!"
I'm worried about the potential privacy abuses of targeted ads and coupons from a pharmacy. I mean, pharmacies are where people may go for condoms, birth control pills, pregnancy tests, diapers, smoking cessation aids, and niche over-the-counter treatments for illnesses that won't be in a supermarket. That can give them valuable but invasive clues about what's going on in someone's life.
I've never even heard about CVS before 😂
I'd like to remind people to try and not touch or limit their exposure to receipts- the normal heat printed kind. Most contain loads of BPA which is easily absorbed through the skin and has been shown to cause a variety of health problems. Check it out.
edit: And DO NOT recycle them. They'll contaminate the recycled paper.
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Just try to find an employee in a CVS store, though!
Their product prices are 50 to 100% more than other store prices; then they give you 20% off. This is a SCAM!!!!!!!
If you think CVS wasting paper is fascinating, just wait until you see your first local election.
I mean, if they just make the receipts digital and attached to a phone App, they could make the coupons easier to see and use without a 6 foot Harry Potter essay.
You can sign up for a CVS account and turn them on digital receipts btw
I remember back in the day Walmart used to do this then costumers complained how long the receipts where and they stopped doing it.
What did you do over the w/e? Snuggled up w'/a good read by the fire (a CVS receipt). The long receipts can be recycled. Put them on the TP roller. We scan our receipts into PDF's. Long receipts make that difficult. This is one reason we avoid CVS. I'm sure the same offers and info can be condensed.
Now they're all fake coupons that just give you the normal sticker price, or a 20% discount with a 40% markup.