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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All stores don’t offer electronic receipts. If I return to Walmart, Target like stores, I need a receipt to get $$ returned via cash or my cc (whatever method I used).  Without either, you will get a gift card and if it is on sale when you return, you receive the sale price.

I also check my credit card statement each month for purchases and returns.[/quote]

That’s not true. You can a refund to a credit card that you used for the purchase in the amount of the purchase within the specified return period without a receipt at both Target and Walmart. [/quote]

My cc statement doesn’t land at my mailbox for a few weeks. My cc will only say I paid $48.06 at Target. How will Target know the item I am returning was purchased from them? [/quote]

These days there are many people who get receipts forwarded to their email when they use their CCs.  And it's a huge waste of paper and ink.  So, now, the default is not to print or to ask you if you want a printed copy.

For those of us who get electronic receipts predominantly, if you go to Target to return something, they can scan your credit card and the computer can bring up a list of charges to that card.  They often will look at the most recent receipt and will check that one for the item.  If you know that it is not the most recent, then you can tell them that and they may ask for an approximate time to check for receipts and they will look for the receipt and item.

But this is also good for businesses like Target so that they can see if the item is really within the return period.  They have many people who bring receipts with the date smudged out and they issue returns for items that are past the return date.  The electronic receipts don't get the date wrong for whether it is within the return period or not.[/quote]

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