Big chain stores including Nordstrom and Gap have started offering e-receipts over the past few months and even small business are starting to embrace the environmentally friendly option as well, reports USA Today.
In five years, up to 60 percent of retailers will go paperless, a Nordstrom spokesman told The Boston Herald.
In 2008 Best Buy and Target began testing AllEtronic to provide customers with emailed receipts. The company boasts their service as "green" for helping to save the trees felled for about 600,00 tons of thermal receipt paper used by stores each year. And it takes 15 trees, 19,000 gallons of water and 390 gallons of oil to make one ton of paper, the company told CNET.
