CVS vows to shorten very long customer receipts

The country’s largest pharmacy chain announced Friday on its Facebook page that it will shorten part of its receipts by roughly 25 percent following a social media frenzy that poked fun at the giant lengths of paper.

The receipts will continue to have just as many coupons and rewards, the company said. Here’s the Facebook post:

And here’s some of the reaction the receipts generated on Twitter:

So @smashleychavez buys one thing of honey, comes out with a receipt almost the size of her. CLASSIC CVS pic.twitter.com/dkh5wvHWM4

— Ricardo Marquez (@iBlogBetter) August 10, 2013

i bout three things at cvs and the guy gave me a really long receipt…i think he likes me pic.twitter.com/tC4YeoOEOM

— SARA ;D (@AliceLitkelovee) August 20, 2013