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?
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.
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I was wondering the same thing. I was trying to buy exactly 10 items because that’s the max they allow at the self check out now. I’m wondering if that increase the odds greatly or something.
Buying 10 items would definitely make this way more likely, because we have a base-10 counting system.
To simplify the problem, if you look at the cents digit, $0.09×10 items = $0.90. If you look at both cents digits, they were mostly $0.99. $0.99×10 items = $9.90.
All you’d need in either case there is something to cost $0.10 more to get a nice even number.
If all the prices are $x.x9 then it’s only possible if you buy a multiple of 10 items.
- 1 item will send with a 9
- 2 items will end with an 8
- 3 items will end with a 7
…
- 9 items will end with a 1
- 10 items will end with a 0
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.
Finally an interesting subject
FD cookies? What kind of cookies are those? Are they good?
They’re oatmeal raisin from the bakery. They’re pretty good.
Anything other than the numbers 5 or 10 in the last digits place should be illegal for things other than gas.
GG, GG, GG, GG, G&G, GG
Good & Gather, one of Target’s store brands, in case anyone was actually curious.
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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.
