• Schmeckinger@feddit.de
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    There are these mystical things called computers, that are very good at computing things. So when printing the price you can automatically compute it into the labels.

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      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.

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        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.

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

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        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.