UK: Sainsburys two-sided paper receipt a success

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UK food retailer Sainsbury’s has won the European Retail Solutions Best Green IT Initiative Award 2008 for using simultaneous two-sided thermal receipt printers from NCR Corporation in its store checkouts.

Last year Sainsbury’s became the first European retailer to start using the new printers, which use over 40 percent less paper. Printing on both sides of the receipt simultaneously not only saves paper, but also the energy associated with producing and transporting it.

By the end of this year, consumers will be receiving the two-sided receipts from 7,000 checkouts in approximately half of Sainsbury’s 823 UK stores resulting in a savings of 502,000 paper rolls per year - cutting receipt paper usage at the retailer by around two-fifths. Read more

Source: Environmental Leader



This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 and is filed under Corporate Responsibility News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “UK: Sainsburys two-sided paper receipt a success”

  1. Peter on July 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    That’s the first BOGOF story I can endorse!

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