Case of the long paper receipt

"Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long"byRebecca J. RosenAugust 10th, 2011The AtlanticI'm not sure when I first noticed them. I don't remember them as a child or a teenager. Then, one day, walking out of a CVS, I looked down at my hand and there it was ... a two-foot long receipt decorated with coupons and miscellany like the back of an old magazine. What was this so-called