• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      i think the issue is more that people don’t really understand what is good about cash and what is bad about the alternative

      and the economic and societal reasons why cash is vastly preferable.

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      11 months ago

      It stresses me out giving the cashier a math problem to solve. I know they can a calculator, but still.

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        11 months ago

        That’s specifically a USA problem only. In the rest of the world, the price you see is the price you pay (not inc. restaurant service fees, etc, which are more BS exported from the US)

        There is zero reason that the price sticker on a shelf or menu shouldn’t be what you actually pay. It’s not like online shopping where they need to calculate shipping based on distance, or tax based on state of the receiver. And there is no reason they couldn’t even put both prices on the sticker.

        But in America, they do it for one reason: capitalism. It’s a marketing scheme. Makes you think you’re getting a better deal and paying less while you shop, so shoppers tend to spend more.

        It’s why fuel costs $2.19 ^99/100

        Because that’s seen as cheaper than $2.20.

        Sorry, but they’re not going to be rounding that final price down to save you 1¢.

        In short: you’re as much a victim as everyone else.

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            11 months ago

            Taxes don’t vary inside a store, you idiot. There are no physical stores that straddle state lines and charge you different amounts depending on which checkout you use.

            I’m going to guess you’re both an idiot and you didn’t read my second paragraph where I mentioned this specifically.

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        11 months ago

        I’ve worked at a till long ago. You ring up the customer then type in how much they gave you then the machine tells you how much change to give.

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          There was a movie about this, how a few cents of rounding error moved into an account generated a lot of money. Office space.