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.
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.
I think most places in the US don't charge any tax on food since it's vital. Only dining out. But not groceries.