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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by ensignavenger on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:20PM (#32428958)
Gas prices change very frequently, so almost everyone uses a digital display to show the price... it is much easier to change 3 or 4 prices than to change thousands of labels when the tax changes.
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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by voisin on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:00PM (#32429516)
If the argument is that the number of products and consequent ease of updating pricing to include taxes, then there are a huge group of items that should include tax in the quoted price. Admissions tickets to a movie or concert, flight prices, anything digital/online that can be updated immediately like gas prices, vehicles, etc.

In other words, I don’t think that argument holds.

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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by mwint on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:18AM (#32434670)
Flight prices are generally displayed all-inclusive in the US.[0]

0: https://www.theflightexpert.com/all-in-ticket-prices-usdot-r...

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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by kalleboo on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:57AM (#32437831)
They should also require stores that have adopted e-Ink price displays to do it
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