Mr. Balzano, the port corporation's executive director, said that he realized immediately upon seeing the receipts "that they weren't proper".
See the receipt for materials and work before you pay the bill.
"In the early days, we saw the receipt as this amazing, kind of often played-down and often forgotten-about communication channel.
Search for Amazon, for instance, and in addition to links to the shopping Web site and information about the river, you could see the receipt from your recent Amazon.com order.
It was a lot of fun, though, to click on the Peek in the Bag feature and see the receipt from a recent purchase: "Kenneth Cole women's shoes $59.40, novelty birthday candles $1, lefty scissors three at 25 cents each".
It was my laptop inside, but to my surprise, they asked to see the receipt of my laptop…I don't carry the receipt…I don't even know where I kept the receipt since I bought it… The policemen said they would not allow me to go because they had received complaints of theft of laptops in recent times.
"Some people say I got the cheapest prices in town" until they see the receipt, said Mr. Staiano, 50, who started pumping gas as a teenager and remembers when it rose above $1 a gallon for the first time in the 1970s.
She demanded to see the receipt.
Big retail companies have already unified their user accounts — when you buy an Apple product in an Apple store, you can see the receipt in your online account.
When she saw the receipt, something bothered her (and it wasn't the price of the pie).
"We chose a name that wouldn't draw attention if your girlfriend or a business associate saw the receipt," Sugar says.
