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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The rare occasion I’ve even noticed this, the difference is usually under a dollar. Probably intentionally, so it’s less likely to be noticed. In practice it doesn’t mean much for someone purchasing fewer higher ticket items.

    In a dollar shop though, that’s inverted. The fifty cent difference between tag and register adds up a lot faster for many low priced products. Just like grocery shopping, it’s easy to overlook an extra dollar or so here and there, but on products that are only a dollar or so, suddenly you’re spending significantly more.

    Soon enough, when every price label is digitized and controlled by a automated machine that guesses customer income by scraping our purchase history, this problem will be even worse.