Do supermarkets round up or down?

[Passions]

Lets say something cost $1.69 and CA tax is 8.75%. Then the total is $1.8378.
So do they charge 1.83 or 1.84?

 

[dafatha00]

they round up. almost every store i know rounds up.

 

[RossMAN]

5 or more they round up, 4 or less they round down.

 

[olds]

What RossMan said.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[mikef208]

Ding Ding Ding we have a winner. Johnny tell Rossman what he's won

 

[monto]

makes sense roundin up

 

[geno]

What oldsmoboat said ^^^^^^^^^^^.

 

[RossMAN]

Did someone ever tell you guys to get a freakin' life?

 

[mastaki11a]

What genocide said ^^^^^^^^^^^.

 

[BlackWob]

Wow.. I never really worried about my tenths of a cent before.

 

[Mapidus]

<< they round up. almost every store i know rounds up. >>



Actually, I have seen places where when you buy the same thing sometimes you pay say 1.69 and other times you pay 1.70. The cash registers do something like round up every other n time and down n-1 out of n times so that on average you pay very close to the correct tax.

 

[megatexel]

What mastaki11a said.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


i had too

 

[Looney]

Hmmm... i'll try this out the next time i'm in my parents store. They've got a couple of cash registers. I'll definitely be surprise if it's random as Mapidus claims.

But personally, i think it's similar to:

What megatexel said ^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Thyme]

Sales tax is actually bracketed, so if the cash registers were smarter, they wouldn't have to round.

 

[marketsons1985]

What MoralPanic Said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[1967mustangman]

Never had to worry about that! (Isn't it nice to live in a state without sales tax)

 

[RossMAN]

What marketsons1985 Said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Mapidus]

<< Hmmm... i'll try this out the next time i'm in my parents store. They've got a couple of cash registers. I'll definitely be surprise if it's random as Mapidus claims.

But personally, i think it's similar to:

What megatexel said ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>



Well, I remember it happening to my mom at the supermarket, but personally I have experienced this myself. I eat at Subway quite a bit -- need to keep my body slender, you know. I usually get the Subway club meal and sometimes it rings up as 5.78, but most of the time it rings up as 5.79. I guess you just have to get the same thing a lot to see this phenomena.

 

[Cyberian]

What BOBBY RIBS said ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[jmcoreymv]

Supermarkets dont charge tax (at least not in CA). Food is considered a necessity if it is bought from a super market (versus a restaraunt) and hence it isnt taxed.