I feel like the US left itself exposed to this kind of crap by not including taxes on advertised prices. I know the logic behind it (so you know how much tax you’re paying) but the reality is that it’s just irritating and established in people’s heads that you’re never going to pay the price you see on the label.

Having grown up in Europe where tax is included on the label I still knew I was paying VAT and I knew the percentage amount of it, everyone did. If I picked up a €5 item and was charged anything other than €5 at the checkout I’d know something fishy was going on. But in the US it’s always been easy to tack on a little 20c fee here, a 50c one there… this is just the inevitable escalation where apps like Uber Eats bundle together $12 of “taxes and fees” to mask their obscene cut.