Every time this is brought up Americans give this excuse.
The tesco express down the road has different prices for almost everything compared to the big tesco 200 metres away from it and yet somehow through the magic of modern technology can print different price labels to each other and have different prices in their database systems. It’s wild.
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it baffles me that tax isn’t included in the price. Here, what is on the sticker is how much you pay.
Every state and every city can have different tax rates, that’s why
Every time this is brought up Americans give this excuse.
The tesco express down the road has different prices for almost everything compared to the big tesco 200 metres away from it and yet somehow through the magic of modern technology can print different price labels to each other and have different prices in their database systems. It’s wild.
It’s not like we don’t have “deals” to make goods look cheaper than they are here either. You can still trick consumers while posting the true price.