Paper or Email? Shoppers Are Clinging to Their Printed Receipts

  • Hacking, privacy concerns fuel skepticism of electronic slips
  • Green America targets retailers in drive to drop paper copies
Checkout at a Target store in New York

Photographer: Richard Levine/Alamy Stock Photo

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Paper sales receipts won’t die, even as the world rushes to digital.

A survey of consumers conducted for a group tied to the paper industry found more than three quarters of U.S. shoppers preferred to walk away with a slip of paper, not a copy sent to an email.