American Things Europeans Can't Understand
Added 2025-04-03 03:35:12 +0000 UTCComments
I 100% agree
Killermcknight
2025-04-04 16:16:54 +0000 UTCThey usually tax the sale of the entire purchase. So, I buy 10 items at said price, they total that price out, and apply the 6% sales tax or whatever the state's sales tax is. If I'm in Florida, each item is the same and not individually taxed. They could 100% display the price for a single item with the tax applied to it. Still, the manufacturers or sellers advertise the item's price because different states and jurisdictions have different sales taxes. A state can have its tax, but so can the counties or cities in that state place their own sales taxes on top of the state's tax. I hope that answers your question. I don't think the origin of the item matters if tariffs are applied to the seller's wholesale purchase price of it; then, the sellers will apply that to their sales price for that item. Then you get into competition where Walmart sells this item at a different price so instead of buying it at Target I'll go to Walmart etc.
Killermcknight
2025-04-04 16:16:41 +0000 UTCRight, final comment - sorry! Was just commenting as I was watching. The toilet stall thing I found really jarring - I remember one occassion I'm just minding my own trying to you know, do my business and I had a fella trying to start a staring contest with me through the gap. It got a bit heated - it wasn't somehting that occurred to me before but I see zero design benefit to the lack of privacy in the USA version and indeed see many security flaws. The question I do have, and you may have the answer to, is related to the sales tax etc. - I understand that there are many differnet states, jursidictions and what have you but I've never understood why each store doesn't just calculate whatever tax it is for that place onto the item and display that so you know exactly what you're paying before you get to the counter. Is it because each item itself may be under a different tax within the same shop?
Daz Parker
2025-04-04 11:23:40 +0000 UTCOn the weight thing - I think thats an outdated stereotype for Americans. Yes, there are a lot of overweight Americans, but having been to the USA a couple of times, I don't notice a difference to the same thing in the UK or across many of the European cities I've been to. I think it's a bit overblown if i'm completely honest
Daz Parker
2025-04-04 11:15:31 +0000 UTCJust to add on - I dont know if the USA arm of my company offers the same thing as they do in the UK&I The Maternity and Paternity leave isn't too bad either but I can't remember the details off of the top of my head
Daz Parker
2025-04-04 11:14:08 +0000 UTCOn the holiday/vacation days, for a full-time worker here in England you now are given 25 days a year paid vacation, thats not including bank holidays btw, which are also paid time off (Unless your contract states you have to work them - i.e customer services in a 24/7 business) Often you will see an employment benefit that states you get an extra vacation day per year you work there up to 5 years so you will eventually have 30 paid days off. I actually work for a company (they operate in the USA too under a different name, FanDuel) that one of the benefits is 'Unlimited Vacation' - Now I'm taken to believe that if you hit the 40 days off mark a year though HR may have a quiet work with you manager around whether there isn't enough work for you/the team to be doing to have so many authorised days off, so I don't know quite how unlimited it really is - But I did use more than 30 days myself last year without any issues. I think the working theory behind that is if people dont have a set limit, theres many that will take less time off, as you can often see people rush to put whatever vacation days they are 'owed' through the system before the allowance ticks back over. Wihtout that deadline some may end up taking less than 25 a year
Daz Parker
2025-04-04 11:02:39 +0000 UTC
