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Aww ... poor little ISPs.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's government mandated. We have variable sales taxes on every product. And it isn't included in the 'price'.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stores can show out the door pricing of most products, they just won't. It's fairly common in the cannabis space because they don't want to make change.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Variable taxes based on region. The rates don't change within a single store, which is where all of the labels are printed. Just print the label with the tax added.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. Same excuse as the cable companies. They can clearly calculate the price easily when you get the bill. They can just as easily calculate it when showing you how much it costs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That or they can just eat the very minor cost difference in each region

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No it isn’t. But companies are certainly trying to make it so.