New tipping rules come into force
Quebec’s new tipping and price display rules are now in force, which seems odd given that tipping is still, in theory, optional and based on personal choice.
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Ian 20:26 on 2025-05-07 Permalink
I think part of it is that the machines always calculate tip after tax where back when we paid cash we would refer to the bill. If you tip 20% after tax you’re basically tipping 23%.
Ephraim 15:19 on 2025-05-08 Permalink
The price display rules should be more consistant, saying that all items in the same category should have to use the same exact unit price, so that they could easily be compared. Sometimes a product may be in 100g and others in kg and still others in ml. Pasta in a can (no, I’m not buying it, but just as an example) is in ml but ravioli in a can is in mg.
Others should be by number of doses. For example, detergent. Sunlight 4L is 100 washes, Tide is 3.9L is 100 washes, Purex 4.43l is 110 washes, Persil is 4.43l is 96 washes, Arm & Hammer 4.02l is 136 washes and Attitude 4l is 160 washes. So, how do you compare by 100ml? Not to mention that a certain club pack is 14.5kg for 150 washes and what I use is 16.5kg for 1100 washes and Tru Earth is 116 strips, with no weight mentioned at all.