Strawbale House

Have you noticed how shopping dockets seem to get longer and longer?

I have just been to Big W to pick up a hooded kitty litter tray. That was the only item I purchased and the docket for the one item is nearly ½ metre long. (Ok, I am exaggerating a little bit here, it is actually just a tad under 40cm long.)

Now, Big W is not the only culprit producing extremely long dockets. Some BP service petrol stations produce huge dockets as well just for a simple purchase of petrol with nothing else.

You may now think, what’s the problem with a long docket? It’s just a piece of paper. The way I see it there are multiple things wrong with excessively long dockets.

1. It is wasteful. While everyone is talking about saving the environment and lowering greenhouse gas emissions shops introduce longer dockets using up more paper.
2. Some of these dockets are not even normal paper but thermal transfer paper which I would not be surprised used some kind of toxic substance.
3. You can’t stick such a long docket in your wallet without performing a little origami trick first as the dockets are too big.

If you have come across some shops that produce ridiculously long dockets why don’t you leave a comment with the shops name and maybe we can shame them into producing more reasonably sized dockets again.