Cashiers Explain How They Are Making Money From The Receipts People Leave Behind

Retail and fast food workers are using TikTok to reveal how they cheat customers out of money.

These low-wage workers take receipts that customers leave behind and use them to get rewards from cash-back apps and websites.

The main app they use is Fetch, which gives points based on the money spent at various stores and fast-food places.

Workers are taking these forgotten receipts and using them to falsely claim points for themselves based on customer purchases.

The Fetch app tracks rewards through receipts. When a customer doesn’t take their receipt, workers can grab it and use it to earn points on their own accounts.

Workers who collect dozens of receipts during their shifts can gather a lot of points on Fetch and later trade them for different rewards.

One employee at a Publix grocery store in Florida has been earning money by using these forgotten receipts.

She shared her trick on TikTok under the username @thatgirl.sonti, showing how she cheats customers by using their receipts to earn points on the Fetch app.

It’s unclear how much these scammers are making from the forgotten receipts, but it appears you’d need to gather receipts totaling $3,000 in spending to claim a $25 reward.

The TikTok user posted a video explaining how she collects receipts and uses them on the Fetch app to get rewards.

She showed an image of the many receipts that customers left behind, with a caption that read, “Me when y’all say you don’t want y’all receipt back.”

The Publix worker has since deleted the viral video, but the internet saved it, keeping proof of how workers use customer receipts to get rewards from cash-back apps.

In another TikTok video, a McDonald’s worker from Florida posed with a handful of receipts that customers didn’t take.

The video implied that they planned to submit these receipts to Fetch to get rewards.

A similar video from Florida shows a worker at a smoothie store gathering receipts that they plan to turn into money through the Fetch app.

Some viewers believe these workers are so desperate that they are willing to cash in on these receipts for rewards.

“It takes seven years to win a $25 gift card,” someone commented on the video.

Another person wrote, “It takes five hundred years just to get a $10 gift card.”

What do you think about retail workers using customer receipts to earn cash rewards?