Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not any sane mind can comprehend this.

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  • DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sane

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      • DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        sane

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There is zero reason that can’t be on the price tag.

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      • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.

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    • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.

      We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So does Europe.

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      • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.

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    • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.

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• Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.

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  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imo it only works if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought that was JC Pennys

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• Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’

  She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.

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• MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oregon has entered the chat

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• Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.

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• peregrin5@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  neither can the Oregonian mind

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