Perhaps you’ve encountered the prototype gas pump. You’ve all seen, I’m sure, the stickers on gas pumps that proclaim that the pump has been tested by a tax bureau for accuracy. The tester simply fills up a five gallon can and checks the price on the pump with the posted prices. But by changing the ROM in the gas pump it is possible to charge more than the posted price for any quanity above five gallons.
For example, if the price is $2.999 per gallon you have the pump calculate $2.999 per gallon for the first 5 gallons. Then you charge $3.009 for the next gallon; then $3.019 for the seventh gallon; and so on. For a twenty gallon tank on an SUV you get an extra $0.15 but considering the amount of gas pumped at a station that can add up.
The Gary T Cash Register counts on the customers undying faith in corporations and tax bureaus – not to mention the customers not even bothering to mentally add the cost of their purchases and estimate the tax before approaching the cash register. This cash register adds a not so random amount to the bill when calculating the total.
There are several alogrythms one could use. One alogrythm would be to transpose two cent digits whenever the second one is larger by a certain amount. Another choice would be to round up all tax computations on each item before adding them all up and applying to the total price. More research is needed as to how much the price could be increased before it exceeds by too much the amount one gets by mentally computing the tax. For instance a 5% tax would be difficult because all one does is multiply by ten and then divide by two. but a 6.75% tax would be easy to increase up to .25%.
And this is the beauty of the Gary T Cash Register, even if the customer checks his change – the amount of change is only checked against the amount the cash register says he should have.
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A good pitting should really be at least one of the following:
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[li]Richly deserved and/or overdue[/li][li]Blisteringly vicious and profane[/li][li]Clever and hilarious[/li][li]Concise, clear, and/or eloquently phrased[/li][li]About George W. Bush, Fred Phelps, or Der Trihs [/li][/ul]
This is the most useless pitting ever. Dude you have the worst case of crainal/anal inversion I have seen on this board in a long time.
In the linked thread, you were given the reason (at least for California in post #2 and now weeks later you are starting a pit thread?
:rolleyes:
I agree with the others wondering why you still care 6 weeks on.
I also would like to know what you specifically object to in GaryT’s post. He’s right, as far as manufacturer coupons. So were most of the others in that thread.
Manufacturer coupons count as a form of tender and do not reduce the selling price. In my county, a $5.00 item would be $5.35 with tax. Take away the $1.00 manufacturer coupon, and the store will charge you $4.35 and submit the coupon for the other dollar. The store will then pass the $0.35 to the state.
Store coupons count as a discount and do reduce the selling price. In this case, the $5.00 item would come to $5.35, and the $1.00 store coupon will reduce the selling price to $4.00, which with tax will come to $4.28. The store will collect your $4.28 and remit the $0.28 in tax to the state.
I really do not understand why this is a difficult concept to grasp. I ALSO do not understand in what way at all it is relevant at which point the cashier subtotals the order. Exactly how antiquated are these registers that they aren’t capable of subtotaling and then continuing on in the same manner as before? No register system I’ve used (a variety of IBM, NCR, and Retalix models since 1993) has ever had a subtotal affect in any way whatsoever what tax is charged or what discounts or coupons are taken.