• gmtom@lemmy.world
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      Every time this is brought up Americans give this excuse.

      The tesco express down the road has different prices for almost everything compared to the big tesco 200 metres away from it and yet somehow through the magic of modern technology can print different price labels to each other and have different prices in their database systems. It’s wild.

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        As an American, I think it’s one of those dumb things that before technology made stuff easier it made sense. But technology advanced and companies didn’t because the impetuous would be on them and “can’t have that”. Kind of like how checks are still used much more in the States compared to Europe where they’re for all intents and purposes obsolete, because the US didn’t adopt sensible free bank transfers in the same way Europe did.

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        It’s not like we don’t have “deals” to make goods look cheaper than they are here either. You can still trick consumers while posting the true price.

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      That’s not why. It could still be required that taxes are included in the price. Franchises jn different locations already have different prices anyway (you think the price for a Big Mac is the same in NYC as it is in a suburb in Ohio?)

      It’s literally just so that businesses can advertise costs that are lower than what they are. Same reason Ticketmaster has 14 different convenience fees and tipping is a cultural norm rather than paying servers a living wage to begin with.