Ukrainian supermarket chain Silpo goes green by abandoning paper receipts

Ukrainian Silpo stores offer to replace paper receipts with digital ones.

What is the problem?

Silpo prints 850,000 to 950,000 checks daily. About 300 million are issued per year. This is 57,000 kilometers of cash register tape per year, like four diameters of the planet Earth. Because of the bisphenol contained in checks, they are rarely recycled.

What is the solution?

Silpo started a project of issuing electronic fiscal checks in a mobile application. It's an eco-friendly alternative that will help guests ditch paper receipts.

How does it work?

Now the e-check function is already available in 200 stores, and by the end of the year, it will be available in all Silpo stores.

To enable the function, the client must update or install a Silpo app, go to the "In the store" section, and select the supermarket where the purchase is made. Then open the screen with the QR code of the "Your Account" card and enable the "Do not print a check" function. The printing function can be returned to the app if a paper receipt is still needed.

Background

Silpo is a Ukrainian retail chain of food supermarkets founded in 1998 that belongs to the trading corporation Fozzy Group. It also provides home delivery or self-pickup. 

The network is present in 62 cities in Ukraine. As of the end of 2022, the chain has 296 supermarkets.

Rubryka reported that for almost a year and a half, Ukrainians have lived in challenging conditions of a full-scale war. All this time, the leader of domestic retail — ATB — has been at the forefront of Ukraine's food security. Having switched to a special mode of operation in the first days of the war, the company provided millions of citizens with guaranteed fresh products and essential goods.