On 26/1/07 07:55, in article , "michael
adams" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...

A bag is not a receipt.

Indeed. But back, back, in the mists of time, possibly as far
back as the time when everything in Woolworth was 6d - the bag
alone was proof of purchase. Something like that. Maybe they
never bothered issuing till receipts as everything was 6d anyway.
Then with variable prices maybe the custom stuck. They still never
issued till receipts up until comparatively recently. 20 years ago
with the introduction of EPOS maybe? It was definitely a Woolworths
thing. But maybe only a Woolworths thing.

My grandmother never let me go into Woolworths when I was a child. She was
convinced it was one of the prime places in which to catch polio. She also
believed it was bad luck to pick up one of your own gloves if you dropped it
and that it was bad luck to cross people on the stairs. ;--)
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Sacha
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South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)