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> American culture is all about the price being the price.

Variable sales tax rates depending on locale / product / usage / other arcane rules; variable tipping rates based on type of service rendered, customs, etc.; services charges, delivery fees, resort fees, convenience (of printing your own ticket) fees, so on and so forth...

No, I think Americans are quite used to not just paying list price.

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Tipping was the first thing I thought of when reading the parent post. I'd call it another cultural outlier. Most American retail stores and activities do not involve tipping. The one big exception is eating at non-fast-food restaurants.

Meanwhile though, literally everything done by people living in young urban "gentrified" areas seems to involve tipping.

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