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

• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I would love tax-included pricing (or maybe VAT?), though from what I know:

        TV ads, sponsorship spots, circulars all complicate this.

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• Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So does Europe.

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Germany certainly is a state if you use the right definition.

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• Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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