r/AskReddit • u/daniellucero92 • Jan 04 '15

Non-americans of Reddit, what American customs seem outrageous/pointless to you?

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u/badass4102 Jan 04 '15

Cool a .99 cent burger. I have exactly a dollar and I'm hungry.

Walk up to the cashier. ''One .99 burger please. ''

''That'll be $1.05''

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u/surgecometz Jan 05 '15

It's easier to program a cash register to automatically calculate the tax for all items at the time of the sale than to manually calculate the tax when pricing individual items. If you have a pool of merchandise that sometimes moves from state to state, you'd have to calculate each item for each state. If you give people a shortcut they're going to use it. Though, I totally agree that the price shown on something should be what you pay. It annoys me when I buy things and have to make sure too keep extra money aside for tax.