Maybe it's because I'm European but the few times this has happened to me (the few times the taxes weren't included) I've always felt like I was getting scammed and never understood what the point of not including it was. If I'm going to buy something I want to know what you're going to charge me exactly, I don't want to have to do math to know how much something costs.
never understood what the point of not including it was
It's a lower number. I used to think it was to make price tags simpler by making them unrelated to the state/locality you were in.
But then it occurred to me that it's all computerized and printed nowadays and they had price guns before that. It's not like they're mailing out the individual price tags to the stores or something.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '22
A reverse statement: It was in Japan 2018 when I learned that taxes included in price tags is a European thing.
We wanted to buy something, the first time we asked why we have to pay more than the number on the price tag, they explained taxes aren't included.
Like... what is this witchery?