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I'd love it if Apple (since they appear not to sell data) would provide an anonymized receipt analysis service like this.

Huge user base right off the bat.

I wish there was just a standardized receipt sending format that would send your receipt to your pay app once you tap to pay something.

Of course, I can only imagine this coming to fruition if it is packed to the brim with tracking and 3rd party dissemination.

To the brim, for sure.

Probably one day we'll have a "citizen preferences file" where the confidentiality of our interactions with various entities can be granularly set.

Yes, just awkwardly punch in your email address into this miscalibrated POS keypad so we can “only send you your receipt”*

* May also enroll you in “helpful” store newsletters and sell your email to every company on your grocery store receipt.

And who is the business consumer

Hmm, yeah I suppose anything promoting consumer knowledge would be antithesis to ordinary business schemes.

Pie in the sky, alas.

Maybe they could grab some preventative lobby money with the threat of it. /s