You can pick up a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, then be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
sane
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🎶Insane in the taxbrain🎶
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There is zero reason that can’t be on the price tag.
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Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.
I would love tax-included pricing (or maybe VAT?), though from what I know:
TV ads, sponsorship spots, circulars all complicate this.
TV ads usually don’t mention pricing for national brands. Local ads like circulars are generally for just one store anyway. All of this would be low effort to do. The only reason they don’t is it tricks people into spending more than they want.
Prices are printed on packaging for many things too, books, magazines, bags of potatoe chips.
So then stores would have to cover the manufacturer price with a higher one just in their store. Which is a waste of time and material if you can just condition a population to ignore the price jump at the register.
None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.
We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.
This is why being autistic feels like being from outer space. Everyone around me seems either utterly incompetent (decision makers) or fucking complacent (everyone going along with this bullshit).
Can we get some adults in charge who make decisions based on sense and data instead of greed and vibes?
So does Europe.
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Germany certainly is a state if you use the right definition.
But the point is the same right? Whether you call them countries or states or counties or municipalities, there are multiple levels of government with their own distinct tax structures, but Europe has no problem displaying the final sale price on their tags. Why would this be harder to implement in the US than in Europe?
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Jesus christ, that happens in Europe too. Please answer my question. How is it achievable in Europe but not in North America?
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
Imo it would only work here if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
They could also first have both prices and slowly make the “before taxes” less noticeable over years
I thought that was JC Penney’s
E: it was
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
neither can the Oregonian mind
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.
Oregon has entered the chat
>my citizens in Cities:Skylines
Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street
LANE CHANGE
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
I give it 3 months until it’s renamed the Gulf of Burrito
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
Probably a scripted route.
Only 74 hours?
Gas is expensive over here.
74hrs straight
They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
Roundabouts are even better.
I didn’t realize there was a difference
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.
Sounds like you need a 2-laner and drivers who understand how they work
It’s already a 2/2.5 lane roundabout, but if you’re on entrance 3, while 1 and 2 are busy as hell, you may not have a window to safely go through.
This roundabout is at a major intersection just off of a freeway and between like 3 different shopping centers, so it’s awful to go through at rush hour. I’ve gotten good at eyeballing windows that scare the piss out of my wife in that roundabout.
There’s quite a few roundabouts near us that have traffic lights that only function during busy traffic. Usually only installed on the busy sides.
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
At least at a long red I can run it safely if there’s no one around (I had to do that at my last apartment complex because the secondary road had stupid long lights overnight, and mine regularly skipped my direction).
Mr bean, is that you?
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany. It’s unenforceable in most cases because it’s easy to make one up but if you keep circling a roundabout, there is a case to be made against you.
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany.
Completely reasonable, but somehow I’m still surprised that this is a thing.
Look kids, big ben! Parliament!
Big ben! Parlament!
I thought I’d look. That roundabout is still there. But, sadly it is now concrete and not grass in the middle…
2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.
Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
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It also would only take around 20 hours.
20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle?
In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful
Truly the language of love.
No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”
“Arschlochfahren”
You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?
I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.
Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…
How to correct (or exacerbate) uneven tire wear:
Drive around the other way at night when nobody sees it.
Or visit Brexitania!
Take this, Germany:
that’s the isekai portal
Do you have to run it clockwise thrice on each circle to open it up?
What in tarnation
I do this one in Australia mutiple times daily. It’s great.
wanted to look this up, here’ the link for anyone else who wants to see it
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Magic+Roundabout,+Swindon,+UK/@51.5626913,-1.7719816,191
zooming it, it feels like a pinball playfield :)
The truly mind-bending part is that the inner circle runs backward.
What’s up with the strange assphault squares in between the inner and outer? Did they used to have grass or statues or something?
Upvoted in horror
Because the (my) American mind in fact cannot even begin to comprehend this, I’ve freedomized it so the drivers are on the right:
I live in NL and we’re soaked in roundabouts, but this … this thing, it scares me.
do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?
Two words: German Efficiency
it’s a flintstones thing then
I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
Gassing out your soldiers during the first deployment of chemical weapons because you forgot about the wind is less than impressive.
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
Just add a long range tank in the trunk.
A normal car can do 1600 km or 1000 miles on a tank. By normal of course I mean diesel-powered German executive class sedan or wagon with an 80 liter tank.
At the low speeds of the roundabout, you might use more fuel, so maybe it’ll only do 1200 km on a tank. Just use a long range tank and you’re golden. They use them in endurance racing, or to go illegally fast for extended periods of time in Cannonball Runs.
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
I did not know
hypermiling
means making post-purchase changes to your car to make it more efficient. Why wouldn’t manufacturers sell them in better quality to begin with?
Not necessarily, it can mean disabling aircon, driving the lower speed limit, taking a flatter route, etc
It’s not always about quality or performance, you want cars to be comfortable too, which is why you have to make tradeoffs. One thing hypermilers sometimes do is taping the seams on the hood, door, etc to improve aerodynamics. You could make a car from factory without seams in the body, but you won’t sell very many unless you can convince people to crawl in through a window.
Other things may be prohibitively expensive, or not durable, so you make tradeoffs. As efficient as possible while staying within the chosen price class and providing a certain standard of comfort.
Remarkably interesting and human details—thank you for taking the time.
Easy, just pick a roundabout that goes downhill.
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
I think those are called beltways
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
The American mind cannot comprehend nuance. It is all either stop or go. And now yield in Pennky.
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
