The end of the systematic printing of receipts, scheduled from April 1, is postponed to August 1

No change at the supermarket checkout for the moment. The end of the systematic printing of receipts, scheduled from Saturday April 1, has been postponed again to August 1, according to a decree published in the Official Journal. The government had justified last week the postponement of this measure because of inflation, considering it preferable to temporarily keep this “landmark” in this period of waltz of prices.

“It’s a postponement, it does not at all call into question the validity of this common sense measure, which will be applied. It’s just that we have to be pragmatic, that we adapt to the context”, explained on Sunday the cabinet of Olivia Grégoire, Minister Delegate for Trade. “When you have inflation at 15% on the shelves, when the receipt is a benchmark for many French people, it seemed important to us to keep this benchmark” the time to “pass the inflationary peak”the firm said.

Initially scheduled from January 1, 2023, the end of the systematic printing of receipts at the end of a commercial transaction, unless explicitly requested by the customer, had already been postponed to April 1. It stems from the “anti-waste and circular economy” law, passed in 2020, and aims to reduce the production of waste, while nearly 30 billion tickets are currently printed each year in France.