Here’s the thing with modern groceries: most grocers are paying at cost or lower per food item. They are less than paper thing margins. Places like Costco will even sell them at a loss. Why? For not Costco-style stores it’s everything else is marked up heavy (also selling your data from those coupons or buying habits.) For Costco and similar businesses, it’s the membership fee.
Interesting. In Québec, the 10% ''Taxe de Vente du Québec'' dosen't apply to food, except pre-made junkfood, with some confusing exceptions.
Prepackaged cookies boxes and soda? Taxed. Wait is that a box of freshly baked cookies? Not taxed. Is that ice-cream item over 500mL? Not taxed. Under? Taxed.
Is that packaged food item sold hot? Taxed. Cooled-down? Not taxed. ( I assume it's to prevent any smart ass trying to dodge sales taxes on restaurent meals ).
She never had to work at a grocer, did she?
Here’s the thing with modern groceries: most grocers are paying at cost or lower per food item. They are less than paper thing margins. Places like Costco will even sell them at a loss. Why? For not Costco-style stores it’s everything else is marked up heavy (also selling your data from those coupons or buying habits.) For Costco and similar businesses, it’s the membership fee.
2-4% seems to be pretty common. Here in Norway food has a tax of 15%, everything else 25%.
The state takes 5 times what the store does on food.
Interesting. In Québec, the 10% ''Taxe de Vente du Québec'' dosen't apply to food, except pre-made junkfood, with some confusing exceptions.
Prepackaged cookies boxes and soda? Taxed. Wait is that a box of freshly baked cookies? Not taxed. Is that ice-cream item over 500mL? Not taxed. Under? Taxed.
Is that packaged food item sold hot? Taxed. Cooled-down? Not taxed. ( I assume it's to prevent any smart ass trying to dodge sales taxes on restaurent meals ).