Was it really baked into the price of the goods when the price of the goods hasn’t changed?
Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?
plz1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s always been the case. Now it’s just transparent, vs. being baked into the price of the goods. When the economy sucks, vendors do stuff like this to try and soften the blow (for themselves).
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It sounds like a way of raising the price while incentivizing cash payment (because maybe just maybe they aren’t claiming all their cash sales)
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If their costs went up by 3%, they could hold prices level by taking the credit card fee out and making it an explicit surcharge.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just posted the same thing. Its always been passed to the customer, just now it’s blatant and they’re adding more “fees”.
Shareholders gotta eat too! /s