Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
by jcrawfordor on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:30PM
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Wal-Mart is also a huge corporation and every single attorney general, not to mention the FTC, would be delighted to learn that they're so clearly and unambiguously violating the law...
This kind of fraud would be so easy to detect I just can't see it occurring on any large scale. The problem would be with small "mom and pop" businesses that could do it for some time without being noticed.
Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
by greenshackle2 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:29PM
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So do you believe they are already screwing you out of fractional cents? There is already rounding going on, there's no guarantee that applying taxes yields a whole number of cents.
Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
by chrisparsons on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:34PM
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You'll have all the data to fact check whether or not they're doing this, too. We all do on a receipt.
As foretold in Superman III and The Office.
That movie was titled Office Space, not The Office.
3-4 cents isn't a lot. Unless it's added up by all of the people shopping in those places over the course of a year. The incentive to cheat the system is there, therefore the system will 100% be cheated. That's The American Way, in my experience.