• HobbitFoot
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    -101 year ago

    Nowadays, yes. However, that wasn’t always the case. People got used to tax not being included and there has never been a big push to change that.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      So instead of calculating the price once and putting it on the sign, they calculate it every time a customer shows up at the register. Sure sounds way easier.

      • HobbitFoot
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        21 year ago

        Or they print out consistent signs across a region, advertise to it, and take care of the sales tax to handle it.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      Again, they calculated the price at the checkout, so they could also have done it for the price tag. It is not a valid excuse in the slightest. Its only purpose is to obfuscate the actual price of an item and confuse the customer about the actual price of an item.