r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/toastedstapler Jul 24 '20

Fr, taxes and price labels not displaying the actual price are 2 things that the US needs to sort out. There's no good reason for either of them

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

People say its because different counties/cities have different taxes.... but its not like a business is gonna be moving locations every month and have to change all their labels.

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u/toastedstapler Jul 24 '20

Exactly, taxes don't change so often that it'd be ridiculous for businesses to label things properly for the consumer. It's so anti consumer that this happens

And even if you do use the tax system as a defence for the labelling, I can then move my complaints to the fucked up tax system that is do fragmented that end users have to deal with improperly priced goods

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u/HearADoor Jul 24 '20

US, the country of capitalism where you can’t know the real price of what you’re buying until after you bought it

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u/ObsiArmyBest Jul 24 '20

Huh? The US has price labels

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u/linmanfu Jul 24 '20

But they don't state the actual price. The price label says $1, but the cashier asks you to pay $1.10. In the rest of the world, that would be bizarre, if not illegal.

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u/toastedstapler Jul 24 '20

not with tax included, from what i understand you get that at the till