The cost of the product should be what's on the label. If that's not enough, raise the price.
> Why not add on an additional fee for every other thing like, fuel surcharge on delivery costs, employee surcharges (I don't live in a place where tipping is expected), or even energy surcharges?
A lot of companies already do this. As long as those fees are mentioned somewhere before purchasing, it's legal here:
https://abc7news.com/post/what-are-surcharges-bill-when-eat-...
California banned all these surprise fees, and then the restaurant industry got their own exemption:
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/06/california-restaur...
What does Europe do here? They at least add tax into the list price which the US can’t seem to do because reasons.
> Traders in the EU are not allowed to charge you extra for using your credit or debit card. The only exceptions to this rule are American Express/Diners Club cards and business or corporate credit cards, where your employer is billed instead of you. If you use these cards, you may still be charged a fee but the fee can't be more than what it actually costs the trader to process your payment.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/pri...
As long as it's part of the advertised price, im ok with that
It's common for the price you pay to change when the method of purchase changes. For example, having a product delivered costs the seller more than if you picked it up from the store, so you have to pay a delivery fee.
To me, surcharges should not be allowed. The sticker price the customer sees when they decide to buy ought to be the price. This makes comparisons much easier, and enables more competitive pricing.
of course not. That's absurd.
I want a single price, regardless of my choice of method of payment. The cost should be built-in to the price. If the cost of providing one type of payment method is too high, i want the business to take out out to make their price more competitive (balanced with the amount of people unwilling to shop there without said payment method).
Merchants and payment providers compete to provide payment methods at as competitive rates as possible, because they needs to compete with cash handling (which isn't hard at all), and the consumer doesn't think about "cost of payment method" - they merely need to think about the cost of the item displayed.
This doesn’t make any sense. So the price should include potential transaction fees for the most expensive method of payment? Or you want the cheap payment method to overpay and subsidize the expensive payment method?
There’s also usually a flat fee plus a percentage, how do you bake that into the advertised price when the flat fee may be spread across multiple items? Should every item increase in cost by $0.30 or whatever?
This is just stupid. Advertise the cash price. You can go to an atm if you don’t want pay the fees associated with your preferred payment method.