I didn't have a budget or anything so I found it mildly interesting that it turned out an even number.
Where do you live that there's no tax?
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Arizona, Groceries aren't taxed here.
Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.
Groceries aren't taxed? Wow
Only 13 states tax groceries.
Arizona
I don't know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:
https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions
Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.
No they don’t!
This creates a need for the law to distinguish between grocery stores and restaurants, leading to artificial barriers to innovation within the marketplace.
Laws should be simple, and create a level landscape on which people can make design choices motivated by utility, instead of adherence to the unnatural incentive landscape of a highly-varied legal system.
It only takes O(1) effort to adapt one’s brain to nature, and to the set of societal arrangements that naturally arise within nature. It takes O(N) effort to adapt one’s brain to new sets of rules that change the incentive landscape, where N is the number of times the rules change.
NE has the same no-grocery tax rule. A handful of states have no sales tax in general (I believe SD and either NH or VT for example) and many, if not all, won't tax groceries purchased with whatever food stamps are called in the respective state
Really stretching that mildly part huh bud ?
Yeah I'm on the edge of my seat here. I demand a refund.
Right? How am I supposed to judge someone's groceries (the real reason we're here) if it's G's all the way down?!
Target, I presume?
OP certainly hit this target.
I was thinking OP lived in some libertarian utopia.
GG
Am i being stupid....how does 10 numbers ending in 9 end up ending in 0?
I know it works, ive added it up myself but it shouldn't work should it?! Am i going crazy?!
9*10=90 Ends in 0.
Ffs how did i not think about that!! Haha! Thanks!
Wait until you find out 0,99... (repeating nines forever) equals 1
I had a $55.55 grocery run a few days ago.
If grocery bill totals were slot machines, we'd have way more fun buying groceries 😂
Side question. If the return credit doesn't include discounts, don't you get more credit than you paid earlier? How does that make sense?
If it's a single-use discount or coupon, you won't be able to use it again even if you return it.
Anything other than the numbers 5 or 10 in the last digits place should be illegal for things other than gas.
Finally an interesting subject
GG, GG, GG, GG, G&G, GG
Good & Gather, one of Target's store brands, in case anyone was actually curious.
Thanks for making me spend like 30 seconds of my life reviewing someone's grocery receipt. We're really starting to stretch the mildy part of mildly interesting, but apparently I'm here for it.
This right here is exactly the kind of content that was posted in r/mildlyinteresting when it was new. After the sub went popular the content was way too interesting for my liking.