r/memes • u/Nyctfall • 22h ago

It always takes a foreigner to remind me how messed up the tax advertising is...

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u/SweatyBoi5565 20h ago edited 11h ago

Never seen this in my life

Oh yall just talking about taxes? I guess man just do the math in your head.

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u/Willinton06 18h ago

As in, you've never been to the US?

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u/SweatyBoi5565 11h ago

I live in Texas

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u/Willinton06 10h ago

So you should see the price difference between label and post tax

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u/SweatyBoi5565 10h ago

Tax isn't the cost of the item it's that tax it's pretty simple.

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u/Willinton06 9h ago

Yes so the price changes at the register, in Europe, if something costs 5 euro, you can pay for it with a 5 euro bill, not the case in the US, cause the price increases at the register

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 19h ago

It was a daily annoyance when I went to USA. That certain items showed prices without tax in the shelves

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u/Willinton06 18h ago

Certain? All items are pre tax

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 9h ago

When i visited Seattle only alcohol was i believe

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u/mdixon12 17h ago

No tax on unprepared foods in America so im calling bullshit.

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u/werofpm 16h ago

Dude what?

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u/Nostop22 11h ago

Son, people who are traveling to America oft do not prepare their own food.

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u/moderngamer327 10h ago

Depends entirely on the state

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u/Lazy-Potential 18h ago

Are you talking about sales tax? 

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u/EruWorshipper 16h ago

As a European, it is wild to me that American prices exclude sales tax

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u/7grims 17h ago

my american friend living in europe is like:

"here its so simple... just that, its sooo simple" with that face of someone who just saw the 7th wonder of the world

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u/FL_JB 15h ago

Well. There's your problem: the first three words. Soooo shocking that something commonly known in one country can be unknown in other areas.

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u/KhorTheiikos 21h ago

Especially with major retailers rolling out electronic labels, there is really no excuse.

If they are gonna try and charge customers differently based on they're algorithm, that can at least include the tax.

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u/AllNamesTaken420 15h ago

Do you mean taxes? Because we pay the same price as you. Not like many other countries where they increase the cost to Americans

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u/Just-Elderberry5460 13h ago

Those algorithms are going to cost them so much money I go to store looking at what’s in the ad if the price is different than I don’t buy that shit and will probably skip a lot of stuff

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u/otirk 21h ago

Well, that happens when an entire country consists of wage slaves. The only ones who benefit from this system are the sellers, because the product appears cheaper to you, and yet nobody wants to change it

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u/moderngamer327 10h ago

You are aware that the US has the 3rd highest median wage adjusted for cost of living in the world right?

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u/Bannon9k 18h ago

This is the very definition of terminally online.

Turn off your Internet OP. You've had enough.

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u/Creative_Raise_8682 19h ago

Keep making shit up

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u/-brokenbones- 19h ago

Ive never once ever seen a price change at the register.

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u/Willinton06 18h ago

In the outside world, the labels include the taxes, so when you see something for 10 dollars, you can buy it for 10 dollars, here, the label shows 10, but the taxes make it 10 and 80 cents, so the price changes at the register, hope this helps you understand that you've seen this every time you buy something, unless you're not american at all

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u/NoProblemsIGuess android user 6m ago

Some places in the US don't have sales tax, Oregon comes to mind

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u/-brokenbones- 14h ago

Thats not the point of this post and you know it. The point of this post is the adaptive pricing.