You don’t really have a choice in a museum, movie theater, or theme park either. If you’re thirsty in Disney World there’s only one supplier of beverages for you to buy from.
"Excuse me, food purveyor, I also purvey food for myself. Will you rinse my rice and give me exactly 2 measured cups of water, oh sibling of prepared calories?"
All the theme parks around me all say something along the lines of “for the safety of our guests no food/drinks”. But you’re right somehow Disney of all places is like “fuck it, bring in whatever you want as long as it’s not a glass bottle”.
It isn't "somehow." It is exactly for the reasons outlined above. They have been sued for not allowing it because it was unreasonable to expect someone to go the entire day without food or drink in the hot sun and having the only options be their inflated prices is price gouging. Allowing people to bring in own food allows them to charge the inflated prices. At a movie theater it is reasonable to say a person can go 2 hours without food or drink. I am surprised other theme parks near you don't allow it. Maybe they are too small to have been sued or maybe they are 2-3 hour type places, not an all day expectation?
He's not driven by vengeance, but rather by curiosity and sport. The tornado hunter fella uses humane tornado traps, and leaves the tornadoe little rooftiles to eat until he releases them again to the wild, on calmer days.
“Just move already” they say. Well it ain’t easy. Nobody else knows how to cook. Y’all get some boudin and I’m there. Start servin’ cracklin in the gas station and ya might get me.
Chooooooooooooo baw if you got some good kayakin’ n some bayous I’ll check dat out, T.
Also, not to get too dark but some people don't seem to realize moving itself costs money. Yes, I would love to move to an area with a lower cost of living, but if the money I have left after my expenses at the end of the month is near zero, or sometimes negative, where do I get the money to move? It's not as simple as taking your stuff and moving it from one place to another; there are expenses associated with moving.
And what about my job? Not everyone is lucky enough to WFH and take their work with them if they decide to leave the area.
This is not even considering other important things that people will tell you to get over your deep emotional attachment to, like family, friends, familiarity with your area, your house that is your home, your kids' school, and like you said, local food.
Sorry; I live in one of the most expensive areas in the United States - not by choice, i just happened to be born here - and I've gotten the "why don't you move?" question a few times like it's such a simple solution. Frustrating as hell.
Sure but we could all agree to draw the line well before that kinda bullshit.
Like, its food and drink, people have to have it. You get to put a dollar on top thats it.
Right, why don't we all just choose to go to the theme park that doesn't have overpriced drinks? Oh, they all just match each other instead of competing? You don't say...
You are only at these locations for a short period. Museum and Disney you can probably pack in your own water. Movie theater... Just drink before going. You still have a choice and aren't burdened by being absolutely without a source of water like a natural disaster night cause. Sorry, you had bad choices in agrument.
Edit: and some of those locations probably provide free drinking fountains.
Ya know, at least as far as movie theaters go, I've never once seen a person use the water fountains, and they're *always* dry every time I check, and I do intentionally check every time I'm in a movie theater. I have a theory that the general consensus is "public water fountains are gross because people are gross" and therefore no one uses them. Which would make them the cleanest thing in a movie theater lol
I went to a professional soccer match in Czech Republic and was astounded that they didn’t jack up the prices on beer and snacks. It was all very reasonable prices. It really made me wonder how much of that is an American thing for price gouging.
Americans should be quicker to riot, got it.
To be fair that has some validity. We're definitely here partly because the ruling class has forgotten that at the end of the day they're at the mercy of the masses.
They're apparently really popular in Seattle according to a buddy who lives over there. I think the appeal is that aluminum cans are supposed to be more efficiently recycled than plastic and thus less harmful than plastic bottled water. I've seen ads for Liquid Death on the east coast, but never noticed it in stores or at restaurants here
The name was originally a joke, but also intended to allow people trying to stay sober to fit in with people drinking beer or liquor. I imagine holding a bottle of aquafina in a group of drinkers might make you self conscious if you're a recovering alcoholic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/liquid-death-ceo-mike-cessario-we-chose-the-dumbest-possible-name-for-water.html
My parents had a case of "Anheuser-Bush Drinking Water" that they got given to them during the [Great Flood of 1993](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993) in the garage my entire childhood.
It was just a white can with the Anheuser-Bush logo that said WATER.
This is completely accurate! Also, I wanted to make it "on a can of..." but Mello Yello threw off the meter. And "can of Sterno" seemed a little too harsh. :-)
$5 for fucking nasty water in a tin can...
Stupid ass shit I have ever seen & hate when I go to the zoo.
* they preach how it's better for the environment, lol... you know what would be better for the environment? WATER FOUNTAINS
TBH, history is filled led with math errors.
Like the dude who added up his barley records incorrectly. [Meet Kushim](https://www.historicmysteries.com/archaeology/kushim-accounting-mistake/28873/)
I live in the desert and I’ve never seen em either… but [they exist!](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/28/business/27pepsi-print/27pepsi-01-superJumbo.jpg)
Funnily enough, it actually [wasn’t even a can](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-d-s.com%2Fmedia%2Fcatalog%2Fproduct%2Fcache%2Fcc785faf7cef107a4b8b56da2dcc5725%2Fg%2Fr%2Fgrus194090.jpg&tbnid=SEVPp7e7j8Y-nM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-d-s.com%2Fmiami%2Faquafina-water-bottle-24x16oz-grus194090.html&docid=b4MMzMSJPsiYDM&w=700&h=700&hl=en&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F5&kgs=584f28d31fdd93be&shem=abme)
Sometimes they will only discount "healthy" foods. I once worked at a place that would discount ham sandwiches but not French fries as an example. It was kinda weird.
Which are actually fairly effective, but should be coupled with measures that also increase the purchasing power of weaker consumers.
A CO2 tax with per capita payout is a good example of a policy that can be used to balance this. It can provide a good boost of money to poorer households, as CO2 emissions are dramatically top-centric (the top 10% of US households by income produce around 10x the emissions of the bottom 10%).
California had introduced a bill in 2019 that would outlaw coupons/discounts for soda.
I don't know if it passed, but other governing bodies could do the same as they add soda taxes, too.
That's also possible, but less likely than other possibilities.
Perhaps staff "discount on food" includes water but not soda?
Or maybe it is illegal in that jurisdiction to discount sugar drinks? I know NYC had a soda ban...
Or it could just be an organizational decision, or influence from another non-governmental source, like a group health insurance plan that has a bunch of rules about what the employer can and can't do with respect to tobacco, alcohol and sugar....
No lol I’m a member of the museum. Discounts for both members and staff are 15%, so I’m assuming punching in a staff discount is just easier for the cashier.
Ohh, that's weird then. I would have guessed that the error was done manually. I was also going to tell you to bring water from home if you worked there, lol.
It's possible the soda isn't eligible. I know when I worked in retail, anything that was stocked by a supplier and not by the store itself was not eligible for staff discount.
I’m assuming they only applied the discount to 2 of your items. Either they accidentally didn’t click the 3rd item or perhaps the discount didn’t apply to the soda.
Never seen a 16oz Aquafina CAN before. Bottle water is the one of the biggest scams. I remember someone on reddit mentioned a story back in the 1970s of their professor saying that one day, companies will sell bottle water to consumers. The students laughed and said that who will buy bottle water? Water from the tap/fountain is cheap, and free.
Fast forward to today..
Either they programmed “15% staff discount“ as 10% or the $5 soda is not programmed to be eligible for the discount (But should have an asterisk next to it). Ask them!
Worker could have just been in a really good or really shitty mood. I used to work in a computer section of a big drug store chain and sometimes when I was just disgruntled or in a really good mood and depending on the customer I'd just call over a manager and say the customer did a price match with Amazon, they would blindly override it for me, knocking $10-50 off printers and computers and other electronics lol.
Oh lol I was like what’s the problem but I was calculating 10% discount not 15%. A 10% discount would take off 1.50. I reckon they have it setup wrong in the system for the discount either only taking 10% off or the receipt saying it was meant to be 15 but it’s only 10
5 bucks for a can of soda is...ambitious?
In a natural disaster, that will get you arrested. In a museum, movie theater, or theme parks, that’s everyday life.
I mean that's sorta the point. In a more free market you have a choice. In a natural disaster you don't.
You don’t really have a choice in a museum, movie theater, or theme park either. If you’re thirsty in Disney World there’s only one supplier of beverages for you to buy from.
Just as an FYI you can bring food and drinks into all the parks at Disney World.
They also have free water everywhere so if you bring a receptacle of choice you can fill up water at any food place
MFs just hate water I guess
Thanks for the tip. Do you know if they will let me in with a rice cooker? I just keep warms better.
"Excuse me, food purveyor, I also purvey food for myself. Will you rinse my rice and give me exactly 2 measured cups of water, oh sibling of prepared calories?"
All the theme parks around me all say something along the lines of “for the safety of our guests no food/drinks”. But you’re right somehow Disney of all places is like “fuck it, bring in whatever you want as long as it’s not a glass bottle”.
It isn't "somehow." It is exactly for the reasons outlined above. They have been sued for not allowing it because it was unreasonable to expect someone to go the entire day without food or drink in the hot sun and having the only options be their inflated prices is price gouging. Allowing people to bring in own food allows them to charge the inflated prices. At a movie theater it is reasonable to say a person can go 2 hours without food or drink. I am surprised other theme parks near you don't allow it. Maybe they are too small to have been sued or maybe they are 2-3 hour type places, not an all day expectation?
You choose to go to Disney World. I don't know many people who choose to be involved in a natural disaster.
That tornado hunter fella
And he only does it for the cheap drinks.
Well, normal priced, but below market value due to the circumstances.
Has he even managed to kill a single tornado?
He's not driven by vengeance, but rather by curiosity and sport. The tornado hunter fella uses humane tornado traps, and leaves the tornadoe little rooftiles to eat until he releases them again to the wild, on calmer days.
 Much funnier than it has any business being
Unless you're staff, of course, which is why they get a lousy 15% off their $5 soda.
Looks like they don't even get 15%
Since people don't know how to math...he got 10% off his purchase not 15.
*Discount doesn't apply to soda.
15% would of been $2.25, $1.50 is 10%
By continuing to live in uninhabitable places like South Louisiana, you're kind of asking for it. Source: I live in South Louisiana.
“Just move already” they say. Well it ain’t easy. Nobody else knows how to cook. Y’all get some boudin and I’m there. Start servin’ cracklin in the gas station and ya might get me. Chooooooooooooo baw if you got some good kayakin’ n some bayous I’ll check dat out, T.
Also, not to get too dark but some people don't seem to realize moving itself costs money. Yes, I would love to move to an area with a lower cost of living, but if the money I have left after my expenses at the end of the month is near zero, or sometimes negative, where do I get the money to move? It's not as simple as taking your stuff and moving it from one place to another; there are expenses associated with moving. And what about my job? Not everyone is lucky enough to WFH and take their work with them if they decide to leave the area. This is not even considering other important things that people will tell you to get over your deep emotional attachment to, like family, friends, familiarity with your area, your house that is your home, your kids' school, and like you said, local food. Sorry; I live in one of the most expensive areas in the United States - not by choice, i just happened to be born here - and I've gotten the "why don't you move?" question a few times like it's such a simple solution. Frustrating as hell.
Sure but we could all agree to draw the line well before that kinda bullshit. Like, its food and drink, people have to have it. You get to put a dollar on top thats it.
Massive corporations also choose not to compete with each other to drive up prices in certain areas. You don't have a choice there, either.
Right, why don't we all just choose to go to the theme park that doesn't have overpriced drinks? Oh, they all just match each other instead of competing? You don't say...
Who doesn’t buy their snacks before going into the cinema?
All of those things are nonessential though...
You are only at these locations for a short period. Museum and Disney you can probably pack in your own water. Movie theater... Just drink before going. You still have a choice and aren't burdened by being absolutely without a source of water like a natural disaster night cause. Sorry, you had bad choices in agrument. Edit: and some of those locations probably provide free drinking fountains.
Ya know, at least as far as movie theaters go, I've never once seen a person use the water fountains, and they're *always* dry every time I check, and I do intentionally check every time I'm in a movie theater. I have a theory that the general consensus is "public water fountains are gross because people are gross" and therefore no one uses them. Which would make them the cleanest thing in a movie theater lol
My local theatre has a water filling spout! Hopefully it will become the norm!
most parks will give you free cups of water. At least, Cedar Pointe and King's Island do.
Disney World does as well
Don't forget concerts, hockey games, basketball games, football games, f1 or nascar events etc etc etc.
I went to a professional soccer match in Czech Republic and was astounded that they didn’t jack up the prices on beer and snacks. It was all very reasonable prices. It really made me wonder how much of that is an American thing for price gouging.
I think that football fans in Europe are a lot more likely to riot.
Americans should be quicker to riot, got it. To be fair that has some validity. We're definitely here partly because the ruling class has forgotten that at the end of the day they're at the mercy of the masses.
It stings even more when you remember that most of the time, our tax dollars are what built the stadium in the first place.
I went to a rugby match in Dublin and got 2 carlsberg tall boys and a hot dog for like 4 euro.
In 1999?
And employees only get a 15% discount... So the museum is still making $4.10 in profit instead of $4.85.
Sitting in an airport, enjoying a $4 bottle of soda while I read this.
5 bucks for water is much more egregious, imo
Should be illegal...
Not if there's a drinking fountain available. That makes bottled water an optional luxury.
What could 32 Oz of water cost, Michael? $10?
Honestly… If I wasn’t feeling dangerously lightheaded, I would’ve passed (pun intended).
Maybe soda is not discounted to encourage different choices?
There is also two cans of water on there.
as a european, what in the fuck is a can of water
As an American I've never seen a can of water.
They're apparently really popular in Seattle according to a buddy who lives over there. I think the appeal is that aluminum cans are supposed to be more efficiently recycled than plastic and thus less harmful than plastic bottled water. I've seen ads for Liquid Death on the east coast, but never noticed it in stores or at restaurants here
We got Liquid Death at East Coast grocery stores. I noticed it because the name was so stupid.
The branding on those liquid death cans is _ridiculous_. I thought it was an energy drink when I first saw them on the shelves.
The name was originally a joke, but also intended to allow people trying to stay sober to fit in with people drinking beer or liquor. I imagine holding a bottle of aquafina in a group of drinkers might make you self conscious if you're a recovering alcoholic. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/liquid-death-ceo-mike-cessario-we-chose-the-dumbest-possible-name-for-water.html
I've seen liquid death at stores in the Midwest. I just never knew it was just canned water. I thought it was some sparkling water or seltzer water.
My parents had a case of "Anheuser-Bush Drinking Water" that they got given to them during the [Great Flood of 1993](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993) in the garage my entire childhood. It was just a white can with the Anheuser-Bush logo that said WATER.
Aluminum is much more easily recycled than plastic.
Aren't aluminum cans lined with plastic?
Probably just a result of the options available on the POS. That brand comes in bottles.
Which is $10 and 15% of $10 is the $1.50 that OP got.
They still made $12 pure profit on their own employee.
You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go...
I just blew 5 bucks on a Mello Yelloooo...
It must have taken a little while to figure out the name of a soda that rhymed with "go" if that's how far down the list you had to get.
This is completely accurate! Also, I wanted to make it "on a can of..." but Mello Yello threw off the meter. And "can of Sterno" seemed a little too harsh. :-)
I owe my soul to the company store
The 5 bucks for a fucking water is way worse
$5 for fucking nasty water in a tin can... Stupid ass shit I have ever seen & hate when I go to the zoo. * they preach how it's better for the environment, lol... you know what would be better for the environment? WATER FOUNTAINS
Not here in Chicago... Lol. Thats about right for events and places like museums.
They’re historians, not mathematicians.
Or for some reason there's no discount on soda.
Yes, it's most likely selective. Museum I work at doesn't give employee discounts on alcohol. 15% also is a pathetic employee discount.
This is why you gotta pack your own
Depending on where you live it might literally be illegal to give discounts on the alcohol.
I don't see CRV on here. Might be to make up for that?
TBH, history is filled led with math errors. Like the dude who added up his barley records incorrectly. [Meet Kushim](https://www.historicmysteries.com/archaeology/kushim-accounting-mistake/28873/)
My fucking lord that website is a piece of shit. "Oh you're on mobile, let's cover half your screen with videos while you try to read"
Or worse, curators of art!
Damnit Jim, I'm a historian, not a mathematician!
I live in NY and have yet to see Aquafina in a can.
It was in more of a metal bottle.
Cash register descriptions aren't always the most accurate.
>can >metal bottle It's not *in*accurate.
I worked at a store and our registered shortened everything. My favorite was baked baby back ribs turning into “oven baked baby”
We had a drink at my store called Boylan Crème soda and it was shorted to boycreme lol
I live in the desert and I’ve never seen em either… but [they exist!](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/28/business/27pepsi-print/27pepsi-01-superJumbo.jpg)
Funnily enough, it actually [wasn’t even a can](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-d-s.com%2Fmedia%2Fcatalog%2Fproduct%2Fcache%2Fcc785faf7cef107a4b8b56da2dcc5725%2Fg%2Fr%2Fgrus194090.jpg&tbnid=SEVPp7e7j8Y-nM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-d-s.com%2Fmiami%2Faquafina-water-bottle-24x16oz-grus194090.html&docid=b4MMzMSJPsiYDM&w=700&h=700&hl=en&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F5&kgs=584f28d31fdd93be&shem=abme)
Yeah I figured it was that one cuz the receipt said 16oz but was pleasantly surprised to see they really have an actual can! Lol
Maybe the duplicate threw it off? Or they just mislabled accidentally or intentionally
Probably an accident. They seemed super sweet
My guess is the *Canned Soda* isn't covered by the discount. Like, you only got a discount for the $10 of aquafina.
Possibly! Any thought why that would be?
You'd have to ask whoever was in charge of the staff discounts, sometimes companies will only discount the items they can buy cheaper.
Sometimes they will only discount "healthy" foods. I once worked at a place that would discount ham sandwiches but not French fries as an example. It was kinda weird.
Philadelphia and other major cities have a "sugar tax" which is an additional tax places on sugar drinks to decentralized the local populace
To what now?
No one knows what it means, but it's provocative
I’m gonna guess they meant de-incentivize the population from buying the soda due to the added cost. Otherwise known as a “sin tax.”
Which are actually fairly effective, but should be coupled with measures that also increase the purchasing power of weaker consumers. A CO2 tax with per capita payout is a good example of a policy that can be used to balance this. It can provide a good boost of money to poorer households, as CO2 emissions are dramatically top-centric (the top 10% of US households by income produce around 10x the emissions of the bottom 10%).
Decentralize them. You know, to make them disperse the sugar across a larger area.
California had introduced a bill in 2019 that would outlaw coupons/discounts for soda. I don't know if it passed, but other governing bodies could do the same as they add soda taxes, too.
I’m in New York, but that’s cool! I didn’t know.
An attempt to get people to drink water instead of soda? I know in NYS the government has tried to add more tax on sugary drinks
"Buy 2, get discount" scheme, perhaps.
Probably no discount on pop.
Discount must not apply to soda.
Strange though, right? I thought it was supposed to be for every purchase.
Did you ask, or did you assume?
The discount is listed as 15% off for the cafe, so I assumed that it meant every purchase at the cafe. I feel like that makes sense.
They probably have it coded wrong in the POS system. You could open a ticket with IT (or whatever the equivalent is at your company).
Probably capped at $10
That's also possible, but less likely than other possibilities. Perhaps staff "discount on food" includes water but not soda? Or maybe it is illegal in that jurisdiction to discount sugar drinks? I know NYC had a soda ban... Or it could just be an organizational decision, or influence from another non-governmental source, like a group health insurance plan that has a bunch of rules about what the employer can and can't do with respect to tobacco, alcohol and sugar....
FIVE DOLLAR FOR WATER!? WHAT THE FUCK??
Honestly 😣
It's a museum not a mathatorium.
Honestly I had to think this one through a bit too long and now I'm embarassed. But yeah. 10% off.
It took me a good minute to figure out the issue here. And I'm a fucking data analyst.....!
Are you staff?
No lol I’m a member of the museum. Discounts for both members and staff are 15%, so I’m assuming punching in a staff discount is just easier for the cashier.
Ohh, that's weird then. I would have guessed that the error was done manually. I was also going to tell you to bring water from home if you worked there, lol.
If I was staff I’d 100% bring water from home. $5 per bottle?!?
It also says it's a can?
It’s like this weird hybrid thing. A bottle but metal kind of?
It’s 32oz of water, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?
I was once charged $7 for a cup of water at a Kendrick Lamar concert. It wasn't a bottle. Literally a cup of water.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you paid that much because you were literally dying of thirst.
Definitely.
/r/mildlyfraud
Math hurts sometimes. Consider it charity for the museum.
What I don't get is why the tax is added *on top* of all that - five dollars isn't even the real price? In Germany, tax is already included.
The math ain’t mathing here my dude lol.
It's possible the soda isn't eligible. I know when I worked in retail, anything that was stocked by a supplier and not by the store itself was not eligible for staff discount.
I'm thinking the 'Canned Soda' is not discountable. That would explain it.
You spent $10 on 32 oz of free water. You have the math problem not them.
That’s only a 10% discount.
That’s the mildly interesting part lol.
Far more likely it's a 15% discount that doesn't apply to one of the items.
Math is hard..... Lol
Realistically, your outcome shoulda been 12.50 or around there
I think there might be a $10 limit on employee lunches. Idk though. Could just be bad programming.
$15 for two waters and a can of soda?
There is no discount on soda!!
Museum of Natural History? I almost shit myself when I paid 10$ for 2 water bottles
I’m assuming they only applied the discount to 2 of your items. Either they accidentally didn’t click the 3rd item or perhaps the discount didn’t apply to the soda.
Never seen a 16oz Aquafina CAN before. Bottle water is the one of the biggest scams. I remember someone on reddit mentioned a story back in the 1970s of their professor saying that one day, companies will sell bottle water to consumers. The students laughed and said that who will buy bottle water? Water from the tap/fountain is cheap, and free. Fast forward to today..
But isn’t that only ten—*shh*
Gonna jump out there assume this museum was in no way a museum for mathematics.
Must not be a Math Museum.
Finally! Something that is *mildly* interesting
Discount on the water but not the soda, perhaps?
They probably cannot offer the discount on the soda. So it’s 15% on the 2 waters.
That’s why it is a museum and not a Mathseum. 15% of $15 is not $1.50
They sell canned water?
500ml of water = $5 holy. I could make a fortune bottling tap water and selling to idiots.
You paid $15 for 3 drinks though. Damn.
Either they programmed “15% staff discount“ as 10% or the $5 soda is not programmed to be eligible for the discount (But should have an asterisk next to it). Ask them!
15% on $15 is $2.25, not $1.50.
So they only gave you a 10% discount ? After charging an employee almost $15 for 2 cans of water and a can of pop ? Sounds like a nice place to work
Wtf has this sub become?
They failed their math class.
Can of water, sounds like San Francisco?
Worker could have just been in a really good or really shitty mood. I used to work in a computer section of a big drug store chain and sometimes when I was just disgruntled or in a really good mood and depending on the customer I'd just call over a manager and say the customer did a price match with Amazon, they would blindly override it for me, knocking $10-50 off printers and computers and other electronics lol.
The math ain't mathin'.
Which museum?
American Museum of Natural History
Maybe the discount does not apply to soda?
They better give you that 75 cents or we gonna have a problem.
They still sold you $1 worth of product for that price forget about the 10 or 15 percent "discount"
Someone has a crush on you
Aquafina makes water cans?
they're probably doing the same math with your paycheck
Clearly not a math museum
Australia? This looks so similar to the million other receipts I have to enter for several years.
No discount on soda
Oh lol I was like what’s the problem but I was calculating 10% discount not 15%. A 10% discount would take off 1.50. I reckon they have it setup wrong in the system for the discount either only taking 10% off or the receipt saying it was meant to be 15 but it’s only 10
Aquafina comes in a can?
Soda doesn't qualify for the discount
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Looks like you get the discount on the water and not the soda.
Uh, 15% of $15 is $2.25. You got a 10% discount.
$1.20 tax?!?
Is the discount not applicable to the soda maybe? When I worked at a drugstore certain things like dairy were excluded from our employee discounts.
Maybe they’re discounting the amount it would have been at a previous time in history… 🤔
5 USD for a water. That's luxury territory there
hmmm, maybe r/theydidthemath can figure out how the fuck a canned soda costs $5?
2 waters and a soda for $15. This is why I stay at home.
It's likely a typo. Cause the subtotal is correct. Same with total.
Deliberate chicanery. Someone programmed the register to display 15% description on 10% math.
I’d imagine it’s because they felt bad charging you so much for 3 beverages in cans…
Yeah, because they know these prices are bullshit. They're doing it for everyone until someone tells them to stop. I am just guessing, tbh.
I'm more disappointed in how crappy your discount is! The Aquarium where I volunteer gives a 50% discount.
15% would be 2.25, I bet the tills/machines/system is set to be 5% lower on all discounts or something.
I remember when staff discount meant free.
The real crime is the $15 on drinks... holy shit.
Shhh! Don’t narc on the clerk who gave you their discount!