As Hervé Villard sang in the 60s “Capri it’s over”, in 2023 “the ticket is over”. Well, not exactly. The receipt should have retired on January 1, 2023, but like millions of French people, he gets a few more months. The application of the AGEC law, the one relating to the fight against waste, has been postponed twice. A first time on April 1, 2023, then a second time on an as yet undetermined date. The receipt, instead of ending up in the trash, often ended up on the ground in the street. Each year more than 30 billion “invoices” were printed. With this law, except at the customer’s request, the receipt will no longer be printed by merchants.
A change in daily life that the French are not yet ready to accept. Indeed, many use the receipt to calculate their expenses and follow the evolution of their account. They expressed their disagreement on the issue of the removal of the receipt. Is this one of the reasons for the postponement of the application of the law? 12 consumer associations have come together to file a press release denouncing the abuses that the abolition of the receipt could cause.
