Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout?

Re:Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout? by RHSeeger on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:49AM (#33549288)

I would argue it's more likely that most wealthy people that are the type to let you know they're wealthy either didn't tip at all or very little. There's plenty of wealthy people that tip very well, but many of them don't flaunt it in any way.

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Re:Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout? by ecommerceguy on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:18PM (#33552643)

I figured this would be a response. I knew just about everyone pretty well, it was in a very nice area of town and is a small rural community.

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Re:Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout? by RHSeeger on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:35AM (#33562092)

Interesting. I haven't seen this in the areas I've lived in. I wonder if it's more of a "big fish" type thing, where people that are the "big fish" in an area tend to tip worse (and expect people to be impressed / overly thankful when they tip well). If you're in a small area, people that are wealthy may very well map to the people that consider themselves to be the big fish. For areas with a higher population, being wealthy is much more common, so doesn't really mark one as "special" in the same way.

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