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Brick and mortar stores know exactly how much tax they have to pay, yet they don't show an all-inclusive price. It's clearly not a case of online retailers jus
by andreareina 2y ago
Brick and mortar stores know exactly how much tax they have to pay, yet they don't show an all-inclusive price. It's clearly not a case of online retailers just not showing the tax because it's difficult. If they wanted to they could let you give your post code before checking out, and query the same database to show the post-tax price for everything.
- ensignavenger 2y agoReally, you expect them to go through every item in the store, multiple times per year, and update the price tags?
- celegans25 2y agoWith price increases over the last couple of years from inflation, retailers have shown they are more than capable of doing so already. So yes
- ensignavenger 2y agoPrice increases don't hit every item all at once.
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- mazugrin2 2y agoAside from silly "sales-tax-holidays" I've never heard of the sales tax rates changing so frequently. I'm curious to know where this is happening "multiple times per year". Here in MA it's been the same rate for 15 years. And for the sales-tax-holiday situation can't a shop just say something like "everything will have x% taken off at the register" just like they would during a typical "10% off all items" type of sale?
- ensignavenger 2y agoIf MA has a single rate across the entire state that hasn't changed in 15 users, they are very different from how most other states operate.
- asciimov 2y agoHere in Texas you will nearly always be paying the maximum 8.25%, its been that way for 30+ years.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoSame here in PA. 6% for basically everything besides non-prepared food and a couple other categories which are tax exempt
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- asciimov 2y agoAround me most stores change their price tags weekly, if not more often. They either have a sheet with new tags or a small printer and scanner and they swap out the tags on the shelf.
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- mrguyorama 2y agoWhat do you think all the people collecting a paycheck in a store do? Stand around and look pretty? Have you ever heard the term "Fronting"? In most stores, employees are required to individually ensure each and every item on the shelf is organized and pulled to the front for optimum display. They do this sometimes multiple times a day. In busier stores, you will have to restock high volume items multiple times per day. The technology for digital pricetags has been cheaply available since the first kindle in the late 2000s. Most companies have avoided spending the money on buying them because the cost of labor in America is cheap enough that you can just have the normal employees do it every day. Digital pricetags are only now becoming common. Mostly because store companies are trying to figure out a way to charge you a personalized price that takes as much of your money as possible.