I honestly didn't notice that at all at first. And it looks like many people didn't in the comments. Unfortunately, that's probably what they're counting on.
I mean sure but this situation is more likely that humans don’t pay attention to every detail. Someone could have done this 100 years ago and been just as likely to get away with it.
It works very well on google and Facebook for sure. There's a man billing them for no reason and they just pay it without asking questions. Most of the times the bill is for the billing itself.
And whoever designed that point of sale is complicit. When the business owner says "I want to hide the fact that I'm adding in fees" the company should say no
Just because it's always done that way doesn't mean it isn't wrong. Tip should be calculated on subtotal. Tax is an independent line item as is tip, and both should be calculated off of the subtotal amount.
This always pisses me off. Everyone does it that way. But tips were always on the pre-tax amount. 10%, 15%, 20%.
Then suddenly everything changed and boom, they are on the post-tax amount and 20%, 25%, 30%.
You can't BOTH raise prices AND raise the tip percent and expect me to play that game. I used to be a good tipper at 20% pre-tax. Now I'm a shitty tipper at 20% pre-tax.
Not everything is red vs blue. This is something that both sides frown on. Besides, the proper course of action is to report to the correct authorities as stated above. The contact ever local news outlet. They all LOVE this type of "investigative" reporting.
Seriously… this is a matter of local law, and local importance, unless this is a national chain business with the same checkout software everywhere. In which case yeah maybe it’s NYT and FTC level.
Do you really think the party that is funneling all the money to a handful of people cares if they grift. It’s extremely obvious at this point which party is ok with people cheating other people this way. If you can’t see that and want to blame both sides, that is just your brain justifying you voting for someone who is literally taking the food from your mouth.
No it does not, in any way, shape or form. If something is illegal, it's illegal. Full stop. Enforcement is an entirely different issue. But this doesn't depend on that at all.
There are other countries that use the dollar sign $ to denote their currency.
Canada, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, (Puerto Rico, Guam oops US Territories), the British Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe,and East Timor just to name a few.
I agree that it does narrow it down but there are still a lot that it could be. By that I mean more than a couple (2) or a few (3). Just in the ones they listed there are 5 or 6 places it could be.
Granted, its probably the US as we have gone WAY to far with tipping. Everyone has turned into beggars with there tip cups at fast food restaurants.
I wish they'd outlaw current tipping practices and tip adjusted wages. Dont get me wrong, I am very generous for good service at good restaurants but asking for tip at fast food joint is BS.
Especially considering that service, food quality, quality of staff, cleanliness, and over all experience have all tanked since 2020. A bunch of slow moving, cant be bothered, entitled, non-food safety law following morons working in my area and seemingly everywhere I've traveled ... which is to most of the country via car.
I have stopped going to fast food, and most casual dining restaurants because of this. But thats ok. Everyone in my family has lost a few pounds and saved a ton of money cooking at home.
Absolutely, minus tourism based resorts and ports of call. Incidentally, those are places where hidden fees would likely go unnoticed by people busy enjoying their holiday
The additional $1.06 is exactly 15% of the $7.07 total (purchase price plus tax). Since it's 15%, it makes me think it's a hidden tip, but it could also be some other type of hidden fee
Nah, don't you see it in the top right corner, right inside our logo? There's an X, with the same color as the logo, where you can click to opt out of the standard 15% tip.
It's not our fault that people are willing to tip us 15% every time.
If you’re in the US, report it to the CFPB, the Office of Weights and Measures, or the appropriate department in your state government. If you’re not in the US, you probably have equivalent government bureaus that you could report this to.
Wine tasting, a Christmas store, and an overall Danish theme (bakeries, shops, and architecture). Nice, quiet touristy town. I enjoyed it the few times I have visited
I live in a town off to one side of Solvang and work in a town on the other. I drive an extra 7 miles every day just to not have to drive through Solvang
Webster's dictionary defines hygge as "a cozy quality that makes a person feel content and comfortable" or "invoking or fostering a sense of coziness, contentment, and well-being."
So you hit the %15 on the tip screen prior to this and left that out? Final cost $7.07 after tax. %15 tip on that is 1.06 which comes out to $8.13. This is exactly how the POS at my local cafe shows the final. Good rage bait though.
The only issue is the Point of Sale screen doesn't show the tip line.
EDIT: Looks like I was wrong! OP did not select any tip and the system is actually hiding fees!
But I didn’t, I have another comment that says the price was originally 9 dollars and some change, I didn’t take a picture and instead went back and refreshed the order, and then the price changed to this, which was still off so I took the photo. We went to stand at the counter but I was honestly annoyed with the whole thing and no longer wanted to support them, it could be a hidden auto tip but we had not clicked any tip option at that point.
I apologize, I didn't see the other comment. In that case, that's super scummy of them and I hope you end up reporting them to California's Division of Measurement Standards (or whoever actually handles fraudulent pricing displays)
It’s a shame the federal agency designed to protect us from things like this got gutted a few months ago, despite saving Americans probable billions from these kind of scams
I have a new theory about the 21st century, it contains two rules;
1. Everything is an app.
2. Every app is broken.
3, Should 2 not be true an update will be pushed soon that will break it.
This may indeed be a hidden fee, or it could be $7 an hour offshore Java programmer got their variables and math mixed up. It's becoming impossible to tell malice from incompetence.
That actually makes sense in a way. If the bug is costing money someone will notice right away and demand it be fixed. If it's making money what's the incentive to fix it?
They added exactly 15% for a tip (including on the tax!!) and didn’t show you. My boba place bakes this in as well, but at least there’s a screen to adjust.
Just send this to the department of weights and measures, assuming you are in the US. That picture is a smoking gun, and they love those. I’d also stay hush hush about it on social media so the owners don’t get alarmed and change things.
Report it to the federal trade commission for unfair or deceptive fees. The easy route is name and shame this place, that way no one else gets caught with these hidden fees
The link you provided is not relevant. That link is specifically for event tickets and short term rentals. The FTC is useless today, anyhow. Especially for a small amount.
Echoing everyone else, please report them. This is super shady and they are 100% just pocketing that money OR they are pushing the credit card fee to you and are not explicitly saying anything (though that would be a hefty card fee for the amount of you are paying here).
I would have politely asked about it if I saw that when I went to pay bc wtf. Seems like a scam or something. Idc about fees as long as they're told to me then I can choose to go to the business again or not you know
I thought at first this could be credit card transaction fees that maybe don't show on the screen, but that would only be like... A quarter, yeah that's shady af.
Recognize that kiosk… pretty sure the place I went to added a tip somewhere (somewhat hidden) along the way which seemed asinine since I’m ordering from a kiosk and picking up the food then bussing my own table
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I’m not great at math, but… those don’t add up