Of course. Thank you.
Just because you see a fee, that doesn't mean it isn't junk. They're often dressed up with quite fancy names. I believe in B.C., starting last week, one fee was a “regulatory recapture fee”. You'll know better than I do. That was in response to legislation in B.C. mandating more of a wage floor, so the fee was passed on to people. Does that make it junk? Maybe or maybe not.... The fluctuation of those fees suggests that they are part of a company's pricing strategy to extract the maximum value from people.
Kudos to Canada, because two years ago, we outlawed drip pricing. You have to advertise, as we've heard, the full price up front. You cannot add fees on as you go through a checkout.
We've seen an unbundling of work. Typically, when we employ someone as a cashier—say, at The Water Store—there's a premium on their time. We're paying them an hourly rate. Uber and companies like it have unbundled work so that you're paid for time on task. Now the theory is to only pay that cashier when they're ringing items through, instead of paying them for their time being at your beck and call—being on call for you. That's part of this larger erosion and the conversation we're having about accessing rides and delivery.
I veered away from junk fees. I'm sorry.