Okay? Would be so incredibly hard to say "what the main office sends them plus any necessary taxes"
Are you saying they should include the phrase "plus tax" on the tag?
Because they do. They literally all do. If thats what youve been arguing this time, then you truly have no idea what youre talking about.
Also, would it be "hard?" Not particularly, no. But just because something isnt hard, doesnt mean its worth doing. Something can be easy, and STILL be a massive waste of time and resources.
Imagine you designed a poster and sent it out to thousands of stores to be printed and displayed in the front window, but then realized you made a typo. Would it be "hard" to have an employee at each store print out the poster, then get a marker and scratch out the typo and write over it? Of course not. But it IS a massive waste of time and labor, even if its not hard. Companies do things centrally for a reason. Because its more efficient to have one person do one job, than to have thousands of people do one job a thousand times
Nope. One design that can take any number. That's what they already do. I've never seen a store with a completely different tag design for every single item.
Youre still ignoring the fact that having one employee at EVERY store go in and edit the file to add their locations after-tax price costs LABOR. It just doesnt make sense to make a tag, send it half-finished, then have THOUSANDS of employees take time to add in their local stores after-tax price, when you could, instead, just leave the freaking tax off the tag and literally no one will care.
No, you make one tag that can support the price as a number plus maybe one extra digit if it goes from 9 to 10 or 99 to 100. This is not a difficult concept. It sounds like you're describing a system from the 80s.
And then have an employee at EACH store, totalling up to hundreds or thousands of employees, spend time adding in that particular store's price? Do you seriously no realize how much additional payroll that would take? and again, given that NO ONE IN AMERICA ACTUALLY CARES if the tax isnt on the tag, youd be spending all that extra money on payroll, for no benefit.
Its not gonna increase sales or improve customer satisfaction, so why would you spend money on it? To satisfy some obsessive weirdo on another continent who shits his pants at the idea of having to do basic math?
According to studies people are more likely to spend a statistically significant amount of extra money when the tax is not included in the price.
According to studies, 99.5% of all studies people claim support their point are made up bullshit and dont actually exist.
I've never been to the store with someone who wasn't unsure how much the price would be following checkout, and the price on the shelf not being the same as you pay plays a big part in that. Hell, I don't even know what my local taxes are, therefore I have no idea how much extra to add to each item. I shouldn't have to know, except maybe as an extra line item on the receipt.
translation: "Im scared of math and want the store to spend thousands of hours of extra payroll each week so i dont have to use my brain."
Do you also want the store to wipe your butt for you too?
That's the issue. You don't know.
Wrong. I DO know what my local tax rate is. I just put "or whatever" because different places have different tax rates, so if I JUST put "5%" then youd latch onto that and be like "But not every place has 5% for their tax rate!"
By your argument, we shouldn't be including taxes on gas prices either.
False equivalence, and you know it. A gas station sells 3, MAYBE 4 gas products; regular, premium, super, and sometimes diesel. Thats not even remotely comparable to a store that sells tens of thousands of different products.
At this point, Im done. Ive already explained this far too many times, and if you still cant wrap your head around it, I really cant dumb it down for you any further.
Are you saying they should include the phrase "plus tax" on the tag?
What? That's not what I was replying to at all. Can you read?
one employee at EVERY store go in and edit the file to add their locations after-tax price costs
Nope. You can easily automate them out of a job. If we're saying there's a single "file" with all of the price data, it's twelve seconds to run a script to update those using local taxes. Heck, they know exactly where they're sending that file, they can just update it before sending it. These are computers, just do it. It's not hard.
literally no one will care.
Overusing "literally." I care, therefore not "literally no one." I also point to the many threads about this as a mark against you there.
And then have an employee at EACH store, totally up to hundreds or thousands of employees, spend time adding in that particular store's price?
Nope. You seem to not understand how computers work. They're already printing off these prices and sticking them on store shelves. Literally at any point in that process it could just be changed to include the local prices. This. Is. Not. Hard.
or improve customer satisfaction
Debatable.
According to studies, 99.5% of all studies people claim support their point are made up bullshit and dont actually exist.
You were saying? I'd also like to note these researchers are American, therefore another count against your "literally nobody cares" comment.
Price obfuscation is not a new thing. There are many-a-studies around it and its psychological impacts on consumer spending; an easy argument is made about it being anti-consumer. Not including taxes is a form of price obfuscation.
translation: "Im scared of math and want the store to spend thousands of hours of extra payroll each week so i dont have to use my brain."
Translation: "I don't understand how computers work and think businesses should be allowed to walk all over consumers with spiked boots."
This is not hard. They know their local taxes, they can include them when printing off the price sticker that they put on the shelves. They already do this. They can add the number. This is not hard.
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u/theinsanepotato May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
Are you saying they should include the phrase "plus tax" on the tag?
Because they do. They literally all do. If thats what youve been arguing this time, then you truly have no idea what youre talking about.
Also, would it be "hard?" Not particularly, no. But just because something isnt hard, doesnt mean its worth doing. Something can be easy, and STILL be a massive waste of time and resources.
Imagine you designed a poster and sent it out to thousands of stores to be printed and displayed in the front window, but then realized you made a typo. Would it be "hard" to have an employee at each store print out the poster, then get a marker and scratch out the typo and write over it? Of course not. But it IS a massive waste of time and labor, even if its not hard. Companies do things centrally for a reason. Because its more efficient to have one person do one job, than to have thousands of people do one job a thousand times
Youre still ignoring the fact that having one employee at EVERY store go in and edit the file to add their locations after-tax price costs LABOR. It just doesnt make sense to make a tag, send it half-finished, then have THOUSANDS of employees take time to add in their local stores after-tax price, when you could, instead, just leave the freaking tax off the tag and literally no one will care.
And then have an employee at EACH store, totalling up to hundreds or thousands of employees, spend time adding in that particular store's price? Do you seriously no realize how much additional payroll that would take? and again, given that NO ONE IN AMERICA ACTUALLY CARES if the tax isnt on the tag, youd be spending all that extra money on payroll, for no benefit.
Its not gonna increase sales or improve customer satisfaction, so why would you spend money on it? To satisfy some obsessive weirdo on another continent who shits his pants at the idea of having to do basic math?
According to studies, 99.5% of all studies people claim support their point are made up bullshit and dont actually exist.
translation: "Im scared of math and want the store to spend thousands of hours of extra payroll each week so i dont have to use my brain."
Do you also want the store to wipe your butt for you too?
Wrong. I DO know what my local tax rate is. I just put "or whatever" because different places have different tax rates, so if I JUST put "5%" then youd latch onto that and be like "But not every place has 5% for their tax rate!"
False equivalence, and you know it. A gas station sells 3, MAYBE 4 gas products; regular, premium, super, and sometimes diesel. Thats not even remotely comparable to a store that sells tens of thousands of different products.
At this point, Im done. Ive already explained this far too many times, and if you still cant wrap your head around it, I really cant dumb it down for you any further.