Yesterday I was at my local Barnes & Noble stocking up on books for my looming flight to SGIA later this week (Richard Ford has a new novel out which got good reviews), and as I checked out and paid, the cashier asked if I wanted my receipt printed or e-mailed (this morning at Dick’s Sporting Goods, I got the same question, so I guess this is a thing now). Well, I had paid cash, the books were not tax-deductible, and I doubted I was going to need to return any of them, so I said, “Well, actually, I don’t really need a receipt at all,” to which she said, “You have to pick one. ‘None’ is not an option.” So I opted for the print one and tossed it in the trashcan on my way out, and felt pretty weird about it. (At Dick’s, I specified e-mail, and then deleted it when I got home. So now, in terms of print vs. electronic, we’re even.) But shouldn’t “none” be an option? For most transactions in my life, I don’t need a receipt and it just seems like unnecessary waste.