FFS leave GST alone Chippy

[Wainuiguy]

So if this week kumera were $4.99 a kilo, then next week GST comes off.  You go back to the same supermarket but rather than $4.24 (the price it should be after GST is removed)  the kumera are $5.49 a kg.  Did you save the GST?

That example says far more about the domination of the big supermarkets and their marketing methods than it does about products' GST content. Also worth noting that the fresh produce department of any supermarket is the most heavily manipulated for marketing purposes. Even wondered why the fruit and vege department is always the first one you encounter on entering a supermarket? This is because it is the product sector that is most difficult to differentiate from in regard to the competing retailers.

A can of beans, bag of sugar or litre of milk are all identical between stores but not so with a head of broccoli or hand of bananas. Size, freshness, appearance, smell are all far more subjective than for most other items so these qualities can be magnified (or disquised) to advantage, and also those considered as staples such as potatoes are often used as loss leaders.

So after 2 paragraphs your answer is "I can't tell if I saved GST".