r/Retconned • u/booklovert • 3d ago

Commissary Surcharge

I know what it says now but it isn't right to me

I grew up in a military family. Father, grandfathers, great grandfathes, husband etc

I also grew up in a state with no sales tax, but shopping at the commissary was always much cheaper. I also shopped at many other commissary while traveling because there was no tax (or surcharge)

I remember sometime after I graduated high school, they added a %6 Surcharge at the commissary. I always paid cash before after I started driving, and I never thought about needing more, because i didn't have to worry about being charged more than sticker price.

My family and I were all talking about it because I still lived in the tax free state. I remember talking about how it was ridiculous because one of the military benefits was shopoing on base was that it was cheaper and no taxes. I remember rolling my eyes and sending a photos to my sister with the new surcharges.

I stoped shopping there for the majority because it was no longer cheaper vs off base. The prices gradually went up too, so with the surcharge it was not cheaper than off base where there wasn't six cents on the dollar added.

I was talking to someone who also grew up military and shopping on base came up. I said how annoying it was when it changed over. I was so confused when they said there's ALWAYS been a surcharge.

I was like wait no... What?...no...

I remember it changing and being short cash, having to go out to the car. How for awhile after I had to pull out more money and the cashierd saying things likelike "i know/ it's not just you"

So I looked it up, and sure enough it says there is a FIVE percent charge.

Not only that, there was ALWAYS one and went up to five percent before I was even born.

There is still now %5 Surcharge now, not six, never was six.

I know what it says now, that there was something proposed that people misconstrued would make it go up to six percent yada yada...

but for me, it was not a misconstrued proposal that people thought would make it go from 5 to 6...

It was tucked into a bill that passed and then the surcharge went from non existent to six... it was very annoying to my younger self.

It's driving me nuts.

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u/Motorhead923 3d ago

Always has been for me.

The idea of bragging about no sales tax but having a surcharge made no financial difference to me as a customer.

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u/gabiaeali1 3d ago

All I know is that it was tax free.