Cashiers Are Turning Leftover Receipts into Surprise Earnings!

Retail and fast food workers have discovered an unexpected way to earn a bit more cash, sharing their secret through TikTok. These employees are harnessing the power of forgotten customer receipts to earn rewards from various cash-back apps and websites. By utilizing the Fetch app, they can accumulate points based on customer purchases at different retailers and fast-food joints—even using receipts left behind by customers to fraudulently boost their points.

When customers leave their receipts at the register, workers can scoop them up and use them to collect points on the Fetch app. With several receipts collected during a shift, these workers can quickly accumulate a hefty number of points, which can then be redeemed for a variety of rewards.

One example includes a diligent Publix grocery store employee in Florida, who showcased her technique on TikTok under the username @thatgirl.sonti. In her post, she revealed how she’s making the most out of customers’ forgotten receipts by redeeming them for points on the Fetch app.

Although the exact amount these workers are earning from abandoned receipts isn’t clear, it seems extensive. To get a $25 reward, for instance, a person would need to gather enough receipts to represent around $3,000 in purchases.

The TikTok user shared a video detailing her process, showing a collection of customer receipts and captioning it with, “Me when you all say you don’t want y’all receipt back.” Although the employee eventually deleted the viral video, others had already saved it, exposing how some grocery store employees are using customer receipts for rewards on cash-back apps.

In another TikTok video, a McDonald’s employee from Florida posed with a handful of unclaimed receipts, suggesting they too would use these to request vouchers from the Fetch app.

Similarly, a worker at a smoothie store in Florida was also seen gathering customer receipts, presumably to convert them into rewards through the same app.

Some viewers reacted with empathy, feeling that these employees are so in need that they’re resorting to redeeming receipts for cash rewards.

“It takes seven years to win a $25 gift card,” one commenter noted on the now-deleted video.

Another remark read, “[It] takes five hundred years just to get a $10 gift card.”

What do you think? Is it acceptable for retail workers to take customer receipts for reward points?