[b112]

Here, if the price is posted wrong for groceries, you get the product free, up to 10 bucks.

https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/price-labelling-and-accur...

You'll note that if they put price stickers on the product, things are more lax.

And if they put nothing, you report it. And yes, it is enforced.

It is trivial to handle this stuff. Simple.

[justsomehnguy]

I was talking about famous inability to display the actual price (product/item price + whatever tax applies that time of a day) on a tag.

[b112]

Not sure what you mean, but outside of tax info, as per Quebec link above, no pricing info by, or on the product is illegal here.

And it is enforced.

[andrewshadura]

What the above commenter means, is that in the EU (and many countries across the world) if a price tag says €10, you pay exactly €10. In the US, if the price tag says $10, you may end up paying $12 or something random amount on top of the signed price, because it doesn't include taxes, which makes shopping extremely inconvenient compared to taxes-included price tags.

[b112]

It makes it inconvenient for travellers, I agree there.

Growing up, and living with this, I find it trivial to deal with.

[justsomehnguy]

It is still inconvenient for everyone. It like saying "Growing up, and living with the house full of lying rakes, I find it is trivial to deal with". Sure you are, but it is one thing what was solved decades ago and now nothing stops to at least having both prices on the tag.

[b112]

But why?

Literally, no one here cares. Couple this with the fact that some don't pay tax, it can make it more difficult.

(Native Canadians don't pay tax. And as a business, many items are tax exempt, if they are for resale. )

You're trying to solve something that isn't a problem. This is because it is cultural.

All haggling is done on the basis of pre-tax.

You know in Canada, we used to have built in taxes on textiles, levied at the distributor too. We got rid of it, an replaced it (and others) with a tax at the cashier.

This is because, if you buy product from out of province, or out of country, it is easier to decouple the tax.

You may not agree, but so what? We prefer it. It is how we do business.

Every time I buy something from amazon in the UK, to ship to me in Canada, I get told the wrong price, because silly VAT is built in.

So when I Google for competitive quotes, UK businesses appear to have wildly inflated pricing.