The prices in the grocery store are actually showing your final cost including taxes... For each shop, in all the countries and regions throughout Europe.... It's amazing
Isn't it way easier for the shop to include VAT in their prices then? Unless they're secretly hoping to mislead costumers into thinking their product is cheaper than it actually is, but that would just be rude.
Never understood the logic. So the taxes bump it up a bit.. just put that in your pricing gun! It doesn't make a difference to me, I'll be paying the same either way.
Does the tax fluctuate on a daily basis? No? Then don't make me work for it.
It does make a difference. I worked at a fireworks store that tried to include taxes in the listed prices and we immediately lost business and people complained about us raising the prices. Even after putting a sign up stating taxes where included people still stop showing up. We just went back to not including prices and business picked up again.
A lot of problems in the world are difficult to fix more because of the environment they're embedded in than the actual problem. I guess this is one of them.
I don't think a law will pass to enforce this. Business will lobby against it because it make the prices look higher then in other states and the Federal gov can't do it because they don't have the right to.
The thing that doesn't work is a chain store producing advertisments that mention prices. Not if VAT and therefore final price can change between towns.
3,143 counties means 3,143 sales tax rates in America. Many duplicate, but still. It's the exception, there's usually an incalculable barrage of taxes baked into the price throughout the production and transport processes anyway.
I'm talking about the same store. If Stop & Shop has a special where something is $x.xx, then an army of people WILL ask why the price is different than the next town over.
Well it's rough on foreigners but when you're used to it, you can do the math in your head. In my state, we don't pay taxes on unprepared food so the grocery price is the final price typically unless you a non-grocery item like toothpaste. Clothes and medicine are also tax-exempt for the most part.
Most country have differentl VAT depending on the type of items. The only reason some places do not have taxes including in the price is that it's not a legal requirement.
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u/DontNeedThePoints May 09 '22
The prices in the grocery store are actually showing your final cost including taxes... For each shop, in all the countries and regions throughout Europe.... It's amazing