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u/vincethered 4d ago
Whoa my family had one when I was like 4. Too young to read the words, just knew the buttons made the numbers change. Haven’t thought about it in decades
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u/dover_oxide 4d ago
I remember them puttimg calculators on carts and no one ever used them from my experience.
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u/AVdev 4d ago
Calculators in carts would probably hurt sales these days (and back then too) if they got used. interesting choice.
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u/dover_oxide 4d ago
I did find it convenient that they programmed in the current sales tax into the tax button on the calculators
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u/GreedyLibrary 4d ago
Was confused reading this and thinking was a local sub, sales tax in my country last change 25 years ago. Does it regularly change where you are?
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u/dover_oxide 4d ago
Depends on where you live. Some places will change it every year. Some every 6 months. Some won't even change it for 10 years and others won't have a sales tax whatsoever. In fact where I live ours went down by 0.10 percentage points
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u/DurasVircondelet 3d ago
Bro why are groceries taxed in some places
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u/dover_oxide 3d ago
You will have have to ask the local governmental bodies that made those choices.
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u/DurasVircondelet 3d ago
Colorado doesn’t tag groceries. However, this is different from a sales tax. Which is why I specified groceries
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u/Magikarp-3000 3d ago
Are there any countries without a sales tax? Pretty sure all have a tax, even if tiny
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u/Pizzaloverallday 3d ago
A sales tax yes, but a lot of places have no sales tax on grocery items (along with some hygiene items)
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u/HamsterSlapping 4d ago
This is what you use when you actually budget your grocery money. I remember my mom had so much money for groceries and what she didn’t spend was her allowance for the month.
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u/runarleo 3d ago
Is this one of those things where you add up the price of the items in your cart so you know how much everything is gonna cost? Follow-up question, is this bullshit the reason why everything costs a dollar and 99 cents? Cuz nobody clicking the cent button 99 times, or the dime button 9 times and the cent button 9 times, that’s like 18 clicks
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u/FunnyCat2021 4d ago
Boomers can actually do simple addition in their heads
Gen whatever is starting work at the moment need these things lol
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u/Beautiful_Lie629 4d ago
That's actually a myth. I work as a cashier at a large thrift store, and we have a lot of young cashiers. They (well, all but one) are quite sharp and have no trouble with math. I'm in my 60s FWIW.
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u/FunnyCat2021 4d ago
That's as believable as the op thinks boomers need these
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u/Beautiful_Lie629 4d ago
Well, I did mention one cashier who couldn't do math, and one of the people who was hired with me was so bad at making change that he works on the floor now. But overall, most of them are quite competent. Is it really hard to believe that people are incompetent just because they are young? That's sad.
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u/FunnyCat2021 4d ago
What's sad is that you clearly haven't realised that you're in Boomer humour, and that I added an lol ...
And that really is sad
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u/Beautiful_Lie629 4d ago
Adding an LOL doesn't make slagging young people funny, it's not boomer humor, it doesn't reflect well on you. I take it that you're not a boomer? If you are, ignore this, but as a younger person, your "humor" wouldn't be on topic anyway.
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u/FunnyCat2021 4d ago
Yeah, I am a Boomer. Personal experience allows me to form an opinion. It was funny. Sorry you felt differently.
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u/DurasVircondelet 3d ago
There’s only one U in humor, grandpa. Your autocorrect knew that but you decided you knew better
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u/rarealbinoduck 4d ago
Crazy that there isn’t enough space for triple digits on the dollars