TOLEDO, Ohio — CareyCrest Pharmacy confirmed Tuesday that its new standard receipt measures just over four feet, a length the company described as “a bold reimagining of the point of sale” and customers described as “a lot of paper.”

The receipt, which prints at all 1,100 CareyCrest locations, takes an average of 41 minutes to read in full. The 24-hour allergy tablet it documents takes roughly 20 minutes to begin working.

“By the time you’ve finished the receipt, your sinuses have already cleared,” said Brent Haskall, CareyCrest’s vice president of Customer Loyalty Adjacent Experiences. “That’s what we call synergy.”

The receipt includes 14 coupons, nine survey invitations and a notice that the customer has been enrolled in a rewards program they were not aware of and cannot leave. One coupon offers $3 off a $30 purchase of greeting cards. Another offers a free coupon, redeemable for a second coupon.

A survey invitation near the middle asks the customer to rate their satisfaction with the receipt. A second survey invitation, near the bottom, asks about their satisfaction with the first survey invitation. Each offers a 4 percent chance at a $25 gift card, which the fine print notes “may be redeemed for merchandise, including more receipt paper.”

Customer Dolores Ankeny-Pruitt, 58, stood in the cough-and-cold aisle Tuesday holding the receipt in both hands as it pooled around her shoes and ran under a display of seasonal candy.

“I came in for one prescription,” she said. “I’d like to know if it’s on there somewhere.”

It is. The item appears in 4-point type between a coupon for reading glasses and a notice about a 2019 class-action settlement in which the customer may or may not be a party. The line item reads “RX,” followed by a price and an apology.

“By the time you’ve finished the receipt, your sinuses have already cleared. That’s what we call synergy.”

Dr. Marguerite Voss-Tillman, associate professor of Receipt Cartography at the Lower Midwest Institute of Thermal Paper Studies, said the trend was predictable. “A receipt is a promise that something happened,” she said. “Once a company runs out of things that happened, it starts printing things that might happen to you, if you answer a survey.”

Voss-Tillman added that she had measured the longest known CareyCrest receipt at 11 feet, following a purchase of one bottle of vitamin D, and that she was still reading it.

Haskall said the company is committed to listening to feedback, which it will gather through the survey at the bottom of the receipt, provided customers can find it. Early data suggest most do not, as the average shopper abandons the receipt around the coupon for a free sample of foot cream.

Asked whether CareyCrest had considered a shorter receipt, Haskall said the company had, but that it tested poorly in a survey.

Ankeny-Pruitt eventually located her prescription, folded the receipt into a stack roughly the size of a paperback, and placed it in her bag. She said she planned to review it at home, though she had not ruled out simply recycling it and hoping the coupon for free coupons was the one that mattered.