Anyone else on the west coast see this community fee at every transaction at Mr Nice Guy? It’s so weird! I called and confirmed it was every store, starting a few days ago. The workers all seem upset. I did get an email to contact their main managers but am thinking I may call my state’s weed commission instead.
It’s mandatory even if you’re buying a joint for $3 in cash. That’s a 33% “fee.” It’s mandatory even if you’re a medical marijuana user (who usually don’t pay tax). It also just seems like tax evasion? They said they have to do the community fee or else raise prices on their weed - ok, then raise prices?
Are they going broke or out of business or something? It’s just so so weird to go to a store and be forced to pay an additional “fee” for nothing like that. And it sounds like a donation (almost like a local food pantry or St Jude’s donation) but it’s part of their business. It’s weird af
Sounds like the “wage and healthcare fees” that restaurants are adding to bills instead of just raising their price.
California just ruled (well I don’t know the exact status of it being a law) that restaurants can no longer add fees to everyone’s bill; they have to put the fee into their prices.
It’s just so weird to me that a business can arbitrarily add fees like that, and that they even would.
That would be shitty if they are then using that money for the business can donate it to a charity so the business can get tax breaks.
The thing is, my state’s tax on marijuana does essentially go to charity program’s and substance use programs. They aren’t funding g that by doing a fee instead of just raising prices.
