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Some things just have to be questioned.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Some things just have to be questioned.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

The columnist-reader relationship in this newspaper nook has long worked like this: You ask the questions, I answer them. But today, I'm doing the asking:

What's with these long receipts at stores? It used to be, you bought something and your receipt was the size of a student body card. Now you buy something and you're handed a kite tail - only wider. I bought one item at Circuit City - one - and got a 22-inch-by-4 1/2 -inch receipt that's slightly more detailed than my home mortgage. Two languages. A pitch to have me take a survey. Refund info. The works.

I exchanged...

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