Prototype of our new receipt which starts today. It's 2 cm shorter than yesterday's receipt!A lot of TBS staff including myself are passionate about reducing our paper usage.
One idea many of us have had is reducing the size of our receipts. We have investigated this and unfortunately we are restrained by the Point of Sale (POS) system we use. The line spacing and font size for example are permanently fixed until we change the whole system.
Some good news though, our POS Master John Bartlett recently discovered a way of dropping the 3 lines of the store's address! We save exactly 2cm of paper per receipt. This might not sound like much but we’ve calculated that based on last year, when we used 3 million receipts, we can save 765 rolls a year which is the equivalent of 63.75 km of paper! As the map below shows, that's like our head office in Mulgrave to Bourke street and back!
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If you're a staff member or The Body Shop customer / fan and have an idea on how we can reduce our tread on the planet, please email me; values@thebodyshop.com.au or just post a comment below!
Adam Valvasori - Values Manager
1 comments:
Hi Adam.
One great way to reduce ridiculous amounts of receipts is STOP reprinting demos!
We've spoken about it at staff meetings and I've mentioned it to the managers. Currently, we're working on a program where software engineers can create a demo button that we can just press rather than print out long receipts (particularly if there was a credit transaction). I don't know if it's plausible, but we have put our two cents worth.
Darsh
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