--- title: Man Dressed as a CVS Receipt Goes to CVS, Wins at Halloween description: Watch a guy bring unexpected joy into a local CVS when he wears a human-sized receipt costume, accurately printed down to the bar code. canonical: https://time.com/4553122/watch-this-man-dressed-as-a-cvs-receipt-go-to-cvs-for-most-meta-halloween-costume/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-01T15:37:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:14.828Z og:title: Man Dressed as a CVS Receipt Goes to CVS, Wins at Halloween og:description: Watch this human-sized receipt use his bar code to buy Halloween candy. og:url: https://time.com/4553122/watch-this-man-dressed-as-a-cvs-receipt-go-to-cvs-for-most-meta-halloween-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Dressed as a CVS Receipt Goes to CVS, Wins at Halloween twitter:description: Watch this human-sized receipt use his bar code to buy Halloween candy. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Man Dressed as a CVS Receipt Go to CVS for Most Meta Halloween Costume > Sponsored content. 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Inside, casual shoppers and employees look on in amusement at his trailing costume, snapping photos of his unlikely outfit. Then he goes to check out, after picking up some bags of Halloween candy, naturally. “Oh my God, does that work?” asks the giggling cashier when he asks her to scan the CVS bucks bar code he had printed on his costume. And it does. On his way out—after receiving another hefty receipt—he gets one final compliment: “That totally made my night,” one of the CVS employees admits. 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