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One of the unsung reasons that Americans eat so much fast food is because, somehow, the tip crap didn't get into that business model (yet), so if you have $8 for lunch and the McValue Meal costs $7.50 you have lunch money and change coming back, end of story. No tipping, no percentages, no shaming, just buy your food like a regular item and go. It would seem like every place outside the US acts like that, so no wonder we love McDonald's and shit.
Knock wood and touch brass for luck that it stays that way. I am not tipping at Taco Bell.
I... I think I just managed to actually quit nicotine over this shit. The vape shop suddenly had a tip setup starting in 2020, and the clerk had to push some sort of button to get past me putting "no tip" into the screen, because absolutely not. Now I've stopped, and that's one less tip screen in my face.
I've been following inflation and wage growth closely, too. Wage growth has leveled off, inflation is slowly, begrudgingly coming down. Cash money says these tip screens aren't going away, no matter what.
Don't you still have to tip your government? I always hear about how USA prices don't include the tax, so you are going to have to calculate percentages no matter what.
that’s because it’s too hard to calculate state tax before checkout. it’s much easier to calculate it at checkout. if only computers could help with this
It’s not actually difficult. Small businesses do it trivially.
Large corporations just want to make their prices look smaller and make you think the government is the problem
In some places the state/city sales tax rate can fluctuate. That means they would have to reprint and replace every label in the entire store.
How often do these rates actually change?
Highly variable depending on where you are. Often the next town over will have a different sales tax. There's a state sales tax rate, which differs state to state, then there is a county/town sales tax added to that, which will vary within the state itself.
It varies from place to place. In the city I used to live in the sales tax would also change when there were special municipal projects that needed funding, like a stupid ass arena...
That still doesn't answer the question.
How many times did it change for you? Every month? Every week? Every day? Every hour? Every minute?
Basically yearly. Sometimes middle.of the year.if they need special project funding
Or absorb the fluctuations for a while and reprint labels less frequently. These days things are getting e-ink labels anyway.
Most companies try to squeeze every penny they can from you; they aren't gonna absorb anything. That's why the common people pay sales tax anyway, instead of the companies that sell the product!
It's more so that tax is not included in the price that's advertised. An item will just show 9.99 + tax. You still pay the tax at the register.
As an Oregonian, i was wondering the same thing: we don’t have sales tax. So the item on the menu costs the same as it does on the bill, but i travel out of state enough to know better than assuming getting rid of tip means there’s no more surprises on the bill.
Last time I went to Subway, the card screen asked for a tip :(