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>go on vacation to America
>I want snacks so go in Dollar Tree
>says everything is for 1 dollar
>get snacks and a few sodas
>price comes to something 6.38
>nowhere showed what items have tax
why this is legal ?

>> No.7483130

???

>> No.7483135

>>7483129
If you're too stupid to realize that some states charge sales tax, I don't know what to tell you.

>> No.7483142

>>7483135
In most countriess gst is included in the price

>> No.7483144

>>7483142
So what? Cry more faggot, it's thirty eight cents

>> No.7483145

>>7483135
Normal countries include the the tax within the price and make it very clear that the tax is included. Where I am from it is illegal to advertise a price that does not include the tax.

>> No.7483146

>>7483129
That's what you get for being a poorfag and not shopping at a warehouse like Costco or Sam's Club

>> No.7483150

>>7483142
Well it's not in the US since there isn't a standard flat sales tax across the entire country. Various states have different tax percentages and some have none at all.

Maybe you should have done some research instead of shitposting on /ck/

>> No.7483152

>>7483146
>vacation
You need a membership to shop there dumbfuck

>> No.7483159

>>7483146
You still need to pay sales tax on eligible items at Sam's and Costco anyway so I don't even know why you're bringing this up.

>> No.7483164

>>7483159
Since when do you pay tax for food?

>> No.7483165

>>7483150

And it's not just by state, many times it's by county.

>> No.7483182

>>7483164
Several states tax grocery purchases at full or reduced rates. Some also tax snack foods and prepared foods but not grocery staple items.

And like >>7483165 said, many counties/cities in some states apply a local sales tax even if there is no state sales tax.

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>>7483145
This desu, senpai.

If it's common knowledge that's taught in american schools, then it only seems like a system to fuck over tourists a few pennies whenever they can.

In the 1st world, selling a product for more than the RRT without labeling it as such, even with any tax is commonly known as false advertising and illegal.

God help me when I go to the states next year.

>> No.7483244

>>7483209
God help you with what? Your impotent rage about paying sales tax, which are almost surely less than what you would pay for the same or equivalent product in your home country?

So you're going to get mad about paying less sales tax in a different country, even though you know you're going to be paying tax anyway?

If it bothers you that much, stay in your own country and continue to pay more.

>> No.7483248

>>7483145
>normal countries

america is literally the only normal country

>> No.7483250

>>7483209
>fuck over tourists a few pennies whenever they can.
I don't think you understand how tax works. You were going to pay it anyway. Whether it's included on the price tag or not is irrelevant. Unless you were going to look at that price tag with the extra couple of cents and say "fuck that, what a ripoff!"

>>7483248
thistbhfam

>> No.7483263

>>7483244
It is about transparent pricing where the price on the label/shelf is exactly the price you pay at the register. Seems like a pretty simple concept right?

>> No.7483274

>>7483244
>>7483250
I love how defensive 'murricans get when you point out shit about their country that's retarded by everyone else's standards.

>> No.7483278

Its more of a marketing gimmick of selling the item more than advertise price.

>Flat Tax

But that's not the problem? They can easily impose the real price after taxes but they don't. Why don't they? Because they dont want to. I understand this practice for online shopping but for groceries? Its stupid bullshit

>> No.7483279

>>7483263
Except it would be extremely inefficient to have to label different prices to accommodate for all the different sales tax rates in the country just because your autistic ass couldn't find out the sales tax in the particular area you were in and do the math on your own.

>> No.7483282

>>7483250
>I don't think you understand how tax works.

I don't you so either? You are still going to pay the tax. Might as well include the final price after tax on the label instead of guessing at the registers

>> No.7483286

>>7483279
>it would be extremely inefficient

But a lot of supermarkets have LED price tags and not traditional ones? Even then this makes absolutely no sense. They will have to price the item accordingly? Might as well include the final price of that item

>> No.7483290

>>7483129
the best snacks in dollar tree are those pork rinds.. fucking awesome.

i once at a whole bag of them in a day, and nothing else

worst fucking shits ive ever had in my life.

>> No.7483459

>>7483129
>why doesn't America pander to my foreign needs
Fuck off

>> No.7483519

>>7483286
>But a lot of supermarkets have LED price tags and not traditional ones?
Except that's not the case.
It's still inefficient to account for all the different sales taxes compared to putting out one price for the entire country and presuming that the local Anon isn't too retarded to do math regarding their own sales tax. I mean, I know you guys tend to be autistic, but we're not so much, and that's including our undesirables.

>> No.7483697

is /ck/ the most autistic board? Why do so many folks reply to obvious bait threads?

>> No.7483815

>>7483697
no, I'm pretty sure /r9k/, /mlp/, or /jp/ might take the cake.
4chan in general is pretty autistic

>> No.7483884

>>7483519

What are you even talking about? Stores set their own prices anyway, not including the tax in the price of a product is just a lazy jew scheme.

>> No.7483897

>>7483142
America is a nation used to being secretly required to pay extra to service staff. Hidden fees are a cultural tradition.

>> No.7483923

>>7483884
No, prices are determined by a central office. Labels are printed in a conjoined factory and bulk shipped to the outlets. If they had to print different prices for different states, it would raise all sorts of unnecessary logistical issues.

>> No.7484909

>>7483923
In Australia we have major supermarket chains who change the price of goods and product offerings between regions and even individual stores. For example, if they face heavy competition in an area, you find lower prices.

By your theory, that would be a major burden on them, but it clearly isn't. Sounds like we are just more advanced than you desu.

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7484949

>>7483129
>go to Family Dollar
>stuff costs more than a dollar
>go to Dollar General
>stuff costs more than a dollar
>go to Dollar Tree
>stuff costs a dollar

What the fuck how is the madness allowed?

>> No.7484977

>>7484949
You stop being a modern day peasant and stop complaining about stupid shit.

>> No.7484995

>>7484909
supermarkets in america do that too. this thread is about taxes though. there are 50 states, and many differ in sales tax and additional taxes on food, cigs, etc. then there are local taxes on top of those sometimes.

>> No.7485013
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7485013

Well, what are you gonna do? Not pay the sales tax?

>> No.7485094

>>7483145
it's also illegal for anyone under 18 to buy spoons in your country you cucked faggot.

>> No.7485307

>>7483459
>Americans' idea of "pandering to foreign needs" is having a transparent system that makes sense
Seems about right.

>> No.7485317

>>7484995
So? The store is located within its own region. How is it less efficient for that store to label its items with the total cost including tax than to label the item with the pre-tax cost?

>> No.7485342

>>7483129
>go to dollar tree
>find rare or foreign brands and food that is usually 3+ times more expensive in walmart and other places
There is literally nothing wrong with Dollar Tree.

>> No.7485428

>>7483923
>Labels are printed in a conjoined factory and bulk shipped to the outlets

No, that's retarded. There's a commercial grade label printer in the store and the after-hours crew doing the stocking will print price labels as needed.

>> No.7485464

fuck palmer "chocolate"

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>>7483274
There's nothing to point out. I don't understand why this is an argument.

In the United states, in some places, you pay sales tax on things. It's unlisted but everyone has to do it regardless. Everyone has to fucking do it it's not there to make tourists pay more, it's there so the state or county or city can make some money back to spend on shit.

This is truly the exact thing as saying "some European countries drive on the left. this system is designed to trap tourists. nowhere is it listed in car dealerships that you have to drive on the left, yet u have to follow the countries rules."

>> No.7485492

>>7485307
>yuro dumbs can't do simple math

Sounds about right

>> No.7485497

>>7483129
Varying percentages across the country. Here in Michigan it's 6%. McDonald's has sales tax, milk doesn't, chips do, potatoes don't, fried chicken does, raw chicken doesn't.

Basically if it's prepared food it'll have tax, if you have to prepare it it doesn't. If this is the only weird social phenomenon you experience on your trip you did good

>> No.7485502

>>7485497
Also, things like alcohol and tobacco are taxed more, and it's included in the price

>> No.7485510

>>7483279
But every other country seems to handle it ok. A computer does it anyway so what does it matter?

>> No.7485542

>>7483286
>led price tags
>most super markets
Maybe if you live by horse stables and mansions, I have seen that, and I live in an upper middle class area. I have however seen gas stations in the hood that have the price of newports on the light up board outside, in the spot the price of diesel usually goes.

>> No.7485543

>>7485542
Have never seen that I mean, still early here

>> No.7486556
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>>7485492
lol

>> No.7486564

>>7485497
But that doesn't they advertise or express the prices anywhere? They do calculate the taxes of items before they sell them anyway, no?

>> No.7486569

>>7486564
doesn't explain why*

>> No.7486571

>>7483279
Uhh American here. Every store has its own set prices and labeling. The company doesnt dictate how much a product is sold for in a store. Its not hard for a store to post the proper price tag accordingly and to include the tax in the apparent price. Stores inabilities to do so usually revolve around their tendency to scam and trick customers into believing they are paying less. They do the same thing with sales. They know what they're doing with labels and advertising. Its all a part of corporate American bullshit.

>> No.7486579

>>7486556
1m is 3 feet
1m is 1 yard
1km is 1/2 miles
1 litre is 1000ml
1 pint is 568ml
1 litre is over 2 pints
1 kg is just over 2lb

That pic was clearly made by an americuck, no-one else could be that ignorant.
P.S. What are ounces and stone?

>> No.7486580

>>7486556

Is that chart supposed to be a joke? An ounce is 28 grams and 1 kg is definitely not 3.5 ounces.

>> No.7486599

>>7485473
The problem is not having to pay sales tax. The problem is that you don't see how much the sales tax is before you buy it.

Which is retarded.

>> No.7486607

>goes to foreign country for vacation
>bitches about spending a few extra dimes

You sound fun.

>> No.7486629

>>7483150
>Various states have different tax percentages


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>> No.7486656

Fuck, you're lucky you didn't get shot on the way there.

>> No.7486667

>>7486629
>Yuro education
The states can decide many things for themselves. The whole point of the United States is that there are separate entities, united under one federal government.

Classic Yuropoor superiority complex

>> No.7486676

>people buy food at the dollar store
wtf
>people go to the dollar store
wtf

>> No.7486711

>>7486676
i go to the dollar store for some things
>office supplies
>trial sized toiletries for travel, some of which are the same brand as in regular stores but cheaper
>party shit/candy, books for the kids
>paper plates and napkins and plastic utensils

nothing wrong with that

>> No.7486715

>>7486629
>ignorance
The post.

>> No.7486721

>>7483145
>>7483209
It's because each state has it's own sales tax or lack thereof, so companies don't want a price that includes tax because some people might get confused why the item has different listed prices in different states.

>> No.7487260

Taxes vary from state to state, city to city.

Convience and dollar stores are used to local customers, not tourists. They would know what gets taxed.

>> No.7487266

If everything's a dollar in the dollar store then how come dollar stores don't sell whores?

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7487297

>>7483274
>everyone else's standards.

you fool, America is THE standard, whether you like it or not, it is a fact.

>> No.7487367

>>7485428
So it would be no trouble at all for the store to include the tax in the displayed price?

>> No.7487414
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7487414

>Be American
>Be hungry
>Buy a pre-made sub
>"Sorry sir, you only have enough for the sub, you gotta pay the tax."
>Starve to death because I didn't have enough for uncle sam

Land of the fee, indeed.

>> No.7487456

>>7484949
Dollar Tree is the only true dollar store