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Moving from the US to the EU soon... Any advice?
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Sending the labels from a central location seems wildly inefficient when label printers are as cheap as they are.
Plus, prices are already adjusted at the state level at the very least, if you're gonna ship every store their labels from a central location you may as well update the tax info on them.
Even the budget stores here are switching to a digital display system with those small e-ink displays. When that technology hits the US, there really won't be an excuse not to label things including tax anymore.
When I was last in the US, most of the supermarkets and such had the eink displays, but most other places didn't yet.
Then there really are no excuses left for those supermarkets. Just a weird Americanism, like using imperial units.
Not even proper ones; they're US Customary units now so all the names are the same but many have different metric equivalents. As someone trying to convert his family recipes to metric and weight-based, this was maddening when all I could get were cup measures for the "wrong" size of cup. Add differences in flour between countries and that was a fun time.