Item: HMV Receipt

Item No: #012
Description: A paper till receipt from HMV
Condition: Crumpled, folded, and extremely faded (although the prepinted stuff on the back of the receipt is still perfectly legible).
Type: Receipts
Materials: Paper
Year: 2016
Production Location: Colchester, UK
Size: H290mm x W80mm

Front Text: (some of this is extremely faded, but still just about legible)

hmv
in-store | online

***829 Colchester***
tweet us at @hmvcolchester
875904 117 829 3

CD Radiohead Moon Shape 9.99
6349904079024
1 item
AMOUNT DUE 9.99
Cash 10.00
CHANGE 0.01

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R08290003811720160623

VAT Number 159854459
23/06/16 14:56:26

Back Text:

hmv Retail Limited,
Mermaid House,
Puddle Dock,
London.
EC4V 3DB

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Notes (2026):

1. I probably should have typed out the actual text on most of these receipts 10 years ago.
2. But I didn’t, and now it’s too late.
3. I dread to think what they’re going to be like in another ten years time.

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