“Can I Email You Your Receipt?” Declared The Most Redundant Phrase In The English Language

RETAIL staff have been accused of wasting up 400,000 tonnes of oxygen every month asking customers for their email addresses instead of just printing off a paper receipt like its 2017, a new study has confirmed.

‘Can I email you your receipt’ has been identified as the most redundant phrase in the English language, with the sentence typical leading to a customer demanding a paper receipt or growing infuriated by the such nonsense.

“No one. Not a single soul, wants to volunteer to receive an unnecessary email, we have 10,000 unread ones already, just give us the fucking normal receipt,” urged customers from a megaphone.

Extensively coached by managers to deliver variations of the line ‘can I have your email for the receipt?’ like it is compulsory and failure to produce it would somehow put you in some sort of maximum security retail jail, retail staff have been appealed to save their oxygen supply.

“Sure some big shops will say going paperless helps the environment but that’s not what the high street shops are at,” confirmed one researcher in a conspiratorial tone.

“They’re banking on you hating the idea of receiving 50 unsolicited promo emails to such an extent that you’ll say ‘no’ and then when you realise there’s a hole in the top you bought or you just look ugly as shite in a top you don’t have the physical receipt to ensure you get a refund,” added one veteran of the buying shit you don’t need trade.