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 $75 + tax and have to either smile and go along with it or have to back out. It’s just a piss poor customer experience.
In our stores that would make 4 different prices on the tag.
I’m sure you can understand why that’s not a great idea?
I answered the other person below, 4 prices at different sizes and boldness is absoultely not an issue here. I find it a great idea.
So… how does a person know which one is for them…? Is the bold for me? For you? For the foreigner that’s exempt? Why are ther so many different price options? Sir! Can you tell me how much this item costs. Okay, now this one. Okay thanks for your time, there is a Lineup of people with the same question.
And what price would the weight price be? Pre tax or post tax? Or does it need to do each and now you have a dozen prices.
What a dumb idea. lol.
Ok, the normal price is the bold big one, say 2.40$ 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
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.
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
Yes, yes you suggested they do just that.
You can’t even remember what you said, and you want to say I’m not understanding? Seesh.
Partial tax exemption is not pre tax. Where i live some people have partial tax exemption, so they pay less VAT on some types of food.
These are large stores that sell bulk food to restaurants, if you are a commercial entity you pay less VAT than private citizens (say 2% instead of 10%). In these stores articles have two prices (plus by-weight prices) totaling 4 prices on the price tag.
You can insist all you want rhe idea is stupid, it does not make it any less real and normal where I live.
Maybe the 4th time will work…
Gee and here there is no such thing. There is only pre and post tax.
Get that through your dense skull yet?
Someone exempt is exempt, not with differences, exempt. So you’re not even arguing the same type of system it seems. Which is what I’m trying to explain to you…
Places have 2 taxes, which different exemptions, so now you need a sheet of paper to list the dozen different price combinations. That’s just stupid, it doesn’t work here. Now it’s on sale, so you need to show the old pricing along with the new. That’s what… 2 dozen prices. That’s not gonna be confusing eh?