“Save your receipts” may be the rule in the workplace for getting reimbursed for expenses, but those slips of paper are just so much trash to a college student.
That’s what Drexel University student Bradley Ericson pondered as he observed transactions at the checkout counter at campus dining halls.
Students have a meal plan and tap it electronically by using their student identification card. But the cashier still hands over a printed piece of thermal paper. Soon after, that receipt winds up on the floor or counter.
Original Article: Drexel sophomore picked as College Entrepreneur of the Year | Philly | 12/18/2009
