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Aww ... poor little ISPs.

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[–] Teppic@kbin.social 194 points 1 year ago (55 children)

As a European I'll never cease to find it mind blowing that it is normal for a Americans that the cost to them of damn near everything is more than the cost initially shown to them.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's government mandated. We have variable sales taxes on every product. And it isn't included in the 'price'.

[–] dark_stang@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stores can show out the door pricing of most products, they just won't. It's fairly common in the cannabis space because they don't want to make change.

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