My Grocery shopping was exactly $40.00

I didn’t have a budget or anything so I found it mildly interesting that it turned out an even number.

GG, GG, GG, GG, G&G, GG

Thanks for making me spend like 30 seconds of my life reviewing someone’s grocery receipt. We’re really starting to stretch the mildy part of mildly interesting, but apparently I’m here for it.

This right here is exactly the kind of content that was posted in r/mildlyinteresting when it was new. After the sub went popular the content was way too interesting for my liking.

Sigh people will upvote anything here. I bet you’d upvote a picture of a can of beans…

I mean … if it was mildly interesting enough.

Good & Gather, one of Target’s store brands, in case anyone was actually curious.

all this, four naught

Where do you live that there’s no tax?

Arizona, Groceries aren’t taxed here.

Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.

Groceries aren’t taxed? Wow

Only 13 states tax groceries.

I don’t know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:

https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions

Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.

No they don’t!

This creates a need for the law to distinguish between grocery stores and restaurants, leading to artificial barriers to innovation within the marketplace.

Laws should be simple, and create a level landscape on which people can make design choices motivated by utility, instead of adherence to the unnatural incentive landscape of a highly-varied legal system.

It only takes O(1) effort to adapt one’s brain to nature, and to the set of societal arrangements that naturally arise within nature. It takes O(N) effort to adapt one’s brain to new sets of rules that change the incentive landscape, where N is the number of times the rules change.

NE has the same no-grocery tax rule. A handful of states have no sales tax in general (I believe SD and either NH or VT for example) and many, if not all, won’t tax groceries purchased with whatever food stamps are called in the respective state

No sales tax in Oregon, but income taxes are rough. My friend moved across the river to Vancouver, WA and makes ~$50k more a year from tax savings.

Sounds like your friend is very wealthy.

Seems like he’s doing pretty well, yeah. He spends most of his money on rental properties though and I don’t think he has tenants at all of them.

Really stretching that mildly part huh bud ?

Yeah I’m on the edge of my seat here. I demand a refund.

Right? How am I supposed to judge someone’s groceries (the real reason we’re here) if it’s G’s all the way down?!

If you’re so desperate to find out what, exactly, OP bought, if you type the numbers on the left side of the receipt into the Target website search bar and pull up the exact products. That is way too much effort for me though.

OP certainly hit this target.

I was thinking OP lived in some libertarian utopia.

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it’s too interesting, it doesn’t belong. If it’s not interesting, it doesn’t belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh… what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don’t spam.

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