I'm a millennial, but I do that. Some things require attachments or are too long. And some people don't check their email often (like me), so you have to tell them you sent an email to get them to check dinner rather than later. Is criticizing an entire generation for something not done personally a thing now? It must be a thing now.

In all fairness, I’d sacrifice a bit of speed if it meant interacting with an entity with an actual personality.

I don’t know if this is just a problem in parts of the US, but there is a rash of “skimmers” installed into self-serve gas pumps. These are electronic cards that intercept your credit card info when you pay at the pump. For this reason, I always get a printed receipt, which is the best protection to offer the credit card company when disputing a charge due to stolen credentials. I guess Boomers are more aware of what can go wrong.

Some of us boomers try very hard not to be 'old school', actually. Having grown up in the IT industry, from the time when there were only mainframe computers with punch card programming and huge, wasteful green bar paper printers, I've adjusted very well over the years. I could go on - and tell you about the days when ATMs first came on the market, and most stodgy folks said they'd never catch on. Hah! Almost fifty years later, and recently retired as an IT project manager, the changes I've made to learn new technology and processes would make your head spin. So, yeah, I can not only swipe a card, and can tap it, too, and I can say no receipt needed cause I monitor my online banking like a hawk. So don't give me that old boomer insult and lump us all together. Just like other generations, some are more flexible and able to adjust to change. I would love to be a fly on the wall forty years from now to ask you how astonishing the rate of change was for you and your peers.

And if I need a hard copy, why waste my paper and ink? Let the establishment pony up.

Of course! I stick them onto A4 paper and give them to my accountant at tax time

Uh, yeah? So I can easily return something without hassle. Just present the receipt without having to rummage through my phone. Oy.

When you go to an another shop with your items, you have to prove that you bought those from somewhere else.

If all business offered digital receipts, that would be workable. But dealing with part digital and part paper is an unnecessary complication. All paper works fine. And you can sort and file them to what ever extent and in whatever way you need to.

Yep cause less info on the internet means less chance of being scammed.

I get that moving away from ink and paper waste would be ideal, but I feel like you have to be excessively trusting and a bit gullible to give those things your number, and I am Not wasting my finite phone space for apps for every store I go to... millennial here. On that note, starting to feel like boomer is going to stop meaning people born between x and y years, and just start meaning anyone over the age of 30 >__>

I get them printed so I can scan them to Fetch (WCG1QQ is my referral Code) and earn free gift cards!

Mostly just to inconvenience the smug young punk behind the register.

if digital means "give me your email address so I can just start spamming you" then yeah. D'oh.

We are used to budgeting & keeping our finances in order.

I work in a grocery store and was monitoring self check out and a printer was messed up and did not print a receipt and thee boomers were so anxious!

That's because I get enough spam as it is. I don't want to give my email address to every retail outlet and cafe under the sun.

Every store and gas station I stop at doesn't need my phone number and email. Like I need more spam.

I absolutely 100% do not want to get any more not one more seriously at all email about summer clearances or take 15% off when you open a new account than I already get. No, Marshalls, printed is just fine. Have a nice day.

Digital is only an option if you give them your email address. Which means a) I've got to spend longer at the till dictating my e-mail address and b) the company now have my e-mail address. I get enough marketing spam already, thanks.

Wrong! This is an issue for folks of all ages. As a road warrior, I mostly encountered them in airports rather than entering a store. To cope, I nicknamed them 'the Obliviots' in my mind. They are the oblivious idiots that have no concept of what's going on around them. Glad to have all that in my past now as a retired boomer.

IG posers and influencers are *NOT* celebrities. Sorry to disappoint.

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I think that is a "dude" thing. Then they say "I'm just kidding, you're great."

And they are correct, there is a solid bunch out there who have no clue what it is to do an honest day's work.

Practical reasons. Can't run out of electricity, doesn't experience problems with internet connectivity and keeps working even after falling from heights

Yeah, to drown out the kids with their video games.

I've gotten a lot of money back after discovering mistakes. Maybe you have endless funds, but not everybody is so blessed.

And your point is? What is wrong with expressing kindness to another person?

Lol who doesn't say this

The weather

Thank you for the recognition… I think.

VCRs didn’t cost $85,000.

I’m a boomer and everyone says that to me 🤷‍♀️

They're like little Twinkies!

Wow, whenever I see someone I know in a store, I just leave and never show my face again. Who cares if I need food? I'll just starve for a lil while lol

I think what you're trying to say is...

Exactly how are we so brilliant that we can post holographic images from our outdated Consumer Wireless flip phones?

Back in my day, remote controls needed direct line of site. Many still do.

Is that why it won't flush?

We all love using the coffee grinder at the grocery store

That's our secret code... . All boomers know how to fill in the ... ... .

Truth is they probably do. Cut backs and that.

hey GNR is genX stuff not boomer stuff...

At least Boomers are willing and capable of having a phone conversation. As opposed to the seemingly crippling angst of all younger generations who react with "This could have been an email!" with near psychotic trauma.

You can decode that pretty easily, as a home you can finance rather than rent. Typically, these are smaller than desired, and as the loan is paid off and equity grows, it gets shifted to a bigger place. If your income doesn't grow as hoped, you still build up equity at least. Renting is too expensive, perversely enough.

Whaaa?