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Aww ... poor little ISPs.

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[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] upstream@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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

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