I think it’s so obnoxious when I go into a little shop and nothing has a price tag. I hate it with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. Are you seriously gonna make me ask you about the price of every little thing I might consider purchasing? Or would you prefer that I bring a bunch of stuff to the register and then decide if I actually want it as you ring it up? And it honestly doesn’t matter if I can afford it (although the lack of clearly labeled prices are particularly rude to people who maybe can’t). No matter how much money I have I will never feel good about getting ripped off so the asking price will always be a factor.

I was recently in a local needlepoint supply store where they had nothing labeled. Needlepoint supplies vary wildly in price. You can get thread for a dollar or for $20. Canvases can cost 5 bucks or hundreds. From their website I saw that this store had needle minders (little decorative magnets to hold your needle when you take a break, they usually look like enamel pins but with magnets instead of the pin and clasp). Well they had $7 needle minders and $75 needle minders. So someone will wander in and see a cute 1 inch Snoopy magnet, think it’s a cute impulse purchase and then get hit with $75 + tax and have to either smile and go along with it or have to back out. It’s just a piss poor customer experience.

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    5 days ago

    Kinda the same story with only giving the price before taxes in the US, why would you not just tell your customer up front what they actually need to pay?

    In some cases, this maybe makes sense, because some purchasers are exempt from sales tax in some circumstances.

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          In our stores that would make 4 different prices on the tag.

          I’m sure you can understand why that’s not a great idea?

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            I answered the other person below, 4 prices at different sizes and boldness is absoultely not an issue here. I find it a great idea.

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              So… how does a person know which one is for them…? Is the bold for me? For you? For the foreigner that’s exempt? Why are ther so many different price options? Sir! Can you tell me how much this item costs. Okay, now this one. Okay thanks for your time, there is a Lineup of people with the same question.

              And what price would the weight price be? Pre tax or post tax? Or does it need to do each and now you have a dozen prices.

              What a dumb idea. lol.

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                Ok, the normal price is the bold big one, say 2.40$ for this 5 kg of flour. Then you have a slash 2.00$ written with no bold. People eligible to have that price will know this applies to them.

                Below the two there are respectively 0.48 $/kg and 0.40 $/kg written, so you know that is by weight.

                All prices post fucking taxes ya dumb mmuricans lol

                Seriously it ain’t fucking rocket science, even dumb people are not that fucking dumb. It works here, in real life, it can work where you are, you lot are different but not another species mate

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                  You suggest that they show pre and post tax, than call someone dumb for asking how they would do so…? And saying it would be post tax only….?

                  Yeah you’re the textbook reason why this system would never work. You can’t even finish describing it without confusing yourself and resorting to insulting people.

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                    I never said they show pre tax? Mate I explained it three times now, if you still don’t understand then this is on you. I ain’t here to educate you

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          How many different prices are going to be on the tag? Including weight pricing that’s now 3-4 completely different prices for the same identical item on a single tag.

          Because that’s not gonna be confusing lol. Seriously, do you not think about this other than wanting life simpler for yourself? There’s countless other people than you, and some are pretty damn dumb, think about others maybe too?

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            You write a big bold price with the most used one, then less bold the lesser used one. In small below the weight pricing.

            Stores here do this, it is not an issue.

            Dumb people are gonne be dumb regardless of what is written on the tag.

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      That still doesn’t make sense. This is going to be a small minority, let them do the math.

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        So you want to make minorities life’s harder to make yours easier…?

        Wow, that’s a pretty selfish take.