I discovered to day that Walmart charges a sales tax on a non-taxable item. So I

[djean111]

69. As a former programmer, I have to laugh at that smug "automatically forwards" stuff.

People write those computer programs. If I wanted to scam the sales tax, I would collect it, and then run a program with access to a table of items sold, by department or whatever, and figure out the correct amount to send to the state, and send that amount, and shunt the incorrectly gathered sales tax somewhere else. Hopefully, the QA people check for this sort of thing, or the state audits everything.

I would bet that filing a complaint is the only way to get this investigated, and that no one at an actual store has any control at all over how money is collected. Most they can do is a manual override or correction, with a manager's password. The money stuff is done at corporate level. Plus, of course, they need to keep their jobs.

As far as not understanding why someone would shop at Walmart - first, and maybe this comes with age, but I have found that it is not necessary for me to always understand what others do. Second, to smugly say that others who are poor should just do without rather than shop there - thanks. Good news is, though, that now I shop at Dollar Tree for things that used to be cheap at Walmart, and I can see first hand that Walmart is more expensive than other stores around here.