2023-07-29 16:00:12
An anti-waste measure
The law was to come into force on 1is January, but had been postponed to 1is April because of inflation, before being postponed once more. This time, it’s the right one, the end of the automatic printing of paper receipts will take effect on the 1is august. From now on, the customer will have to expressly request a ticket, printed or dematerialized. This flagship measure of the anti-waste law for a circular economy, adopted in January 2020, aims to combat the waste of the 30 billion tickets printed each year, i.e. more than 10,000 rolls of paper per hypermarket, the equivalent of a Paris -Montpellier (750 kilometers).
Another reason put forward, public health concerns, despite a ban enacted in 2015. According to a study carried out by researchers from the University of Granada in 2019 on a hundred receipts collected in Brazil, Spain and France, half of French tickets contain bisphenol A, an endocrine disruptor that can lead to infertility, genitourinary malformations, obesity and cancer…
A paradoxical dematerialization
The legislation takes a first step towards the generalization of dematerialized tickets. Customers will be able to obtain a ticket by email, SMS, QR code or directly in their banking application. From 2021, several supermarket chains have taken the plunge, such as the Système U and Carrefour groups. However, according to the group of experts specializing in energy sobriety Green IT, a single dematerialized ticket would reduce water consumption by only 2 centiliters compared to the paper ticket, but would release 2 grams of CO2 in addition. According to the Environment and Energy Management Agency, 2.5% of the carbon footprint in France was linked to digital technology in 2020 – compared to 2% to waste.
A price control object
Since the creation of the cash register by the American James Ritty in 1879, then that of the National Cash Register in 1885, the printing of a receipt – for the merchant, then for the customer – has become an important issue. transparency in the price chain. “The display of prices and receipts make it possible to enlist the consumer in price control”, notes Franck Cochoy, sociologist at the University of Toulouse. The consumer can thus follow his purchases and protect himself from any errors.
In April 2022, several consumer associations pointed out that “the receipt is a tool for managing the family budget” and worried that the consumer would tomorrow be unable to prove his purchases. The law nevertheless provides that tickets relating to the purchase of so-called « durable”, where the existence and duration of the legal guarantee of conformity are mentioned, will be automatically printed.
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