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Originally Posted by mx703
I had the same thought mentality as you before. The reality is, the smaller chain places will likely do this. But, the BIG chain stores will not. They are far more educated and have a better marketing team.
My friend works for Superstore and has told me that their costs are actually passed on to the customers. NOT because they want the customer to save, but because they want to take business away from their competitors.
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This is what people tend to overlook - competition. Assume every business is saving a couple bucks (whether via HST, or whatever) - if one doesn't pass the savings on to the customer, and his competitor does, then the competitor is going to get more business.
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Originally Posted by q0192837465
The difficult thing for most people is that it is hard to look beyond the personal level. Yes in theory HST is beneficial to all of us as a society in the long run. But in the short run it's not the the common people who will reap noticeable benefits, but large corps.
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It's NOT just big corps, though - I work for a small company (just me, another tech, the boss, and the boss's wife who does the books) and they LOVE the HST. Not only does it save them money, but it makes her life doing the accounting a TON easier. It's not just that it's HALF the paperwork; the PST paperwork itself was hideous, and now that's gone.
The other thing people overlook in their short-sighted, self-centered haste is that if it's good for business, it allows business to hire more people, or to pay their people higher wages. Someone complaining about the HST because he's unemployed needs to look a little more big-picture and realize this improves his chances of GETTING a job (assuming he's actually looking).