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The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases (www.engadget.com)
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The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and "bogus" fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The argument the idiots use is "We want to see government theft!" instead of just having a line item at the end of your receipt showing tax collected and the breakdown. It's not like we don't have toiletpaper roll length receipts already.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The kicker is we already do the “price at point of sale including taxes” thing at gas stations. If it’s $3.09 or whatever per gallon, that’s including state and federal sales tax.

We already see the line item thing on most receipts anyway. We basically do everything except roll the sales tax into the sticker price.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only 3.09 per gallon? We pay 2 per litre!

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

CVS be changing their tape rolls every other customer…

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

CVS near me gives you a store credit if you let them email your receipt to you. It's silly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's very profitable for them to sell your email + buying habits I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

CVS has entered the chat