NYC Pharmacy Charges 7% “Man Tax” To Send A Powerful Message
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According to a study conducted by the NYC consumer affairs department, women’s products cost 7% more than men’s. Well now a chemist in New York City has decided to combat this discrepancy by adding a 7% tax on all products purchased by men to make a statement about gender discrimination.
“We thought it’d be a great idea with all the political things going on—with Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing,” Jolie Alony, owner of Thompson Chemists in SoHo, told the Daily Dot. “We wanted to share that women deserve to get a break, and men deserve to be charged 7 percent more. Women are spending more in general and we make less, so we deserve to have a break.”
Charging men and women different prices is actually a violation of New York’s pricing laws, so the chemist is paying the difference from their own pockets. The response has also been mixed, with some people supporting the idea and others branding it sexist. What do you think? (h/t: the daily dot)
According to a study conducted by the NYC consumer affairs department, women’s products cost 7% more than men’s. Well now a chemist in New York City has decided to combat this discrepancy by adding a 7% tax on all products purchased by men to make a statement about gender discrimination.
“We thought it’d be a great idea with all the political things going on—with Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing,” Jolie Alony, owner of Thompson Chemists in SoHo, told the Daily Dot. “We wanted to share that women deserve to get a break, and men deserve to be charged 7 percent more. Women are spending more in general and we make less, so we deserve to have a break.”
Charging men and women different prices is actually a violation of New York’s pricing laws, so the chemist is paying the difference from their own pockets. The response has also been mixed, with some people supporting the idea and others branding it sexist. What do you think? (h/t: the daily dot)
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Share on FacebookTo bring men and women awareness. Even though it's not the way I would usually prefer to take action, I'm getting so tired of today's society and it's unconscious losers that the "taste of your own medicine" technique is slowly becoming more appealing. If you don't like it, THEN CHANGE FASTER. It is not hard to understand how to behave! Men and women are different, yes, but neither of them are better than the other. Just because one can do something better does not mean the other shouldn't be given the opportunity to do the exact same thing. We're supposed to work together to solve problems, which would make life so much easier. IT'S. NOT. HARD.
Load More Replies...This is a horrible horrible way to make the point. Why should men "deserve" to pay more?? Women deserve to pay less -in other words equal to men - but that's not the same thing as charging men more!
Why not lower the price of women's products? I agree with their point, but if I saw that sign I would probably go to another shop.
Yeah, right, fight sexism and inequality with sexism and inequality, that will surely send the message they intend to
"Women are spending more in general". That's an interesting statement. I do go crazy with all my makeup, trying new things, so I do spend much more in that area (so, at the pharmacy). Also, what does "with Clinton being such a woman" mean? It sounds like this pharmacy just hasn't thought their reasoning quite through. They might be doing this partly for exposure.
I'm pretty sure men pay the same thing as women for make-up, and women pay the same thing as men for couch syrup.
Load More Replies...Meh... Now guys will send their girls even to buy them medicine.... As groceries were not enough....
Interesting remark. But it hits the essence – you never know the "side effects".
Load More Replies...This is stupid, and even the wrong sign if you prefer symbolism. Just a few concerns: a) why not raise men prices by 3,5% and lower women prices by 3,5% if you want to do something for your customers? b) Why punish those that buy and not those that sell? c) why not take into account that there might be a reason behind prices? For example, women might in general buy more sophisticated beauty products. Is that right or wrong? I do not know, but prices are just an effect then. d) How would you take into account actual spending patterns? If you strive for equality with simple, disconnected actions, it would be the next consequence to make women pay more in restaurants...because if couples go out more often the guy pays the bill. Let us not strive for gender equality but for equality of people, whatever their (biologial, social, psyhcological, ...) background is. And this is nothing that comes with rules, regulations, quotas or the like, but by abandoning old-fashioned thinking.
Basically I agree with your point, especially b), very well said! BUT... About c)... Well, contraception pills are no beauty products....
Load More Replies...100% certified B******T... first of all the "gender pay gap" of "women getting paid less" is a MYTH and a LIE. women don't get "paid less" than men. if a woman and man have the same job... they will get paid the SAME. the lie that "women make 70 cents for every 1 dollar a man makes" doens't take into account 1) there are more MEN in the workforce (some women are still stay at home moms.) 2) women take more time off than men. (maternity leave for instance.) 3) women take jobs with more comfortable working conditions and less physical labour, trading off comfort for higher salary... (how many guys work in a "nail salon"? how many Women work on a Construction site) 4) Men work MUCH HIGHER RISK JOBS which carry a higher salary... (90% of work place deaths are men.) so do the salaries of all the working women "make less" than ALL the working men? Yes because there are more men working more phsyically demaning, more dangerous, higher paying jobs, for longer hours. PERIOD.
Isnt he ruining his business by doing this? One would think men would avoid his store like the plague.
"with Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing" I assume the "other guy" she's referring to is Bill Clinton, Mr. former womanizer in chief. This is beyond stupid, and why a lot of good causes end up loosing steam.
"make a statement about gender discrimination" by discriminating based on gender.....the hipocracy continues!
Women's products do not even contain the same ingredients as men's products. They are NOT the same product, you can not compare them. It is no sexism here, it is simply more expensive to develop and produce a woman's product instead of a man's one. That's why they cost more.
Nothing's more equal then ..not..being..equal. This can't be legal. I would never shop there
How about discounting women's products instead of upping men's products, which in the end is just giving the shop an extra 7% profit on men's stuff. Clever bit of marketing 😜
i like the vibe, but how did you compute that women stuff is 7% more expensive then men's? lipstick vs shaving razor?
Same brand deodorant for women vs men. Same brand shaving razor for women vs for men. etc That's how they determined it. However, this comparison is still stupid because, even if they are made by the same brand and are used for the same purpose they are NOT the same product. Women's products tended to have more ingredients in them (like deodorants) or more complex shapes (like razors) which makes them more expensive. And by my logic, that's fair.
Load More Replies...Leftist s**t. Why don't they bring the women stuff discount instead of adding this artificial tax to men stuff? What if a woman buys men stuff or man buys women stuff?
Because they wanna make more money through sexist b******t.
Load More Replies...I don't get it. If it's too expensive for women, why raise the price for men instead of lowering it for women?
Let's force men to use expensive women cosmetic products...For equality of course..
Soooo in essence, the pharmacy is making 7% more than they should, per male customer, by covering it up as "awareness".
Wow! This is the most brilliant idea! Next tech stores should have a 10% tax on Non gaming consumers to show how expensive gaming peripherals are.
Thats sexist and the company or store owner needs to be sued and in my opinion, put into a Gulag, to learn what tru socialistic behaviour is like.
Okay but if you do this men have to make more so STFU about pay inequality.
No. The "7% men tax" isn't even a tax. In that store, the men are paying the market rate, and the women are paying 7% less. Also, men DO make more. For every pound a man makes, a woman in the same job makes 78 pence. And, if you get two of what is pretty much the exact same product, except one of them is marketed as "for women" and the other "for men", the womens one will almost always cost more.
Load More Replies...Awesome! Now all those Dads, Husbands, Sons and Brothers can have less money to spend on their Daughters, Wives, Moms & Sisters! Well thought out!
So they are using a "Study" and :Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing" as a way to be stupid and punish those that simply want to buy and not care your opinion of a study on what products cost more or less. Some people just want the attention regardless of the stupidity they provide.
Two weeks later... Pharmacy has "going out of business" sale. Tax free for all!
Ha - I always thought that women should get a 17% discount on things because that's how much less women earn.
hi.. And anybody should count how much of the resources feeding to the system males an how much females...
This just makes us ladies look like we need "extra help in life" WE ARE JUST AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER MAN!!!
FILTHY FEMINISTS They should all burn and this store should get torched down.
Offcourse it's sexist. But the message is that as the store is sick, so is the system.
If there issue is that women's PRODUCTS cost 7% more then why are they taxing men? Surely it would make more sense to add the tax to men's products rather than arbitrarily charging men more just because they are men, what if the man is out buying products for his wife? Women do tend to buy more products than men, so you'd think that they would be cheaper, but it doesn't work like that, women want these products more so will pay more for them, it's supply and demand, it's capitalism, it sucks!
Interesting. I was watching Dr. Oz and they did a shopping comparison. Women's products, even though they have the same exact ingredients on the average pay $1.00 more per product that they buy.
I have never seen a men's product that had the same ingredients as a woman's product. Please give examples, I'm seriously interested in that.
Load More Replies...How is it sexist if they're trying to make sure that both genders are charged equally
They are not charged equally because the products are not the same. That's why it's sexist.
Load More Replies...To bring men and women awareness. Even though it's not the way I would usually prefer to take action, I'm getting so tired of today's society and it's unconscious losers that the "taste of your own medicine" technique is slowly becoming more appealing. If you don't like it, THEN CHANGE FASTER. It is not hard to understand how to behave! Men and women are different, yes, but neither of them are better than the other. Just because one can do something better does not mean the other shouldn't be given the opportunity to do the exact same thing. We're supposed to work together to solve problems, which would make life so much easier. IT'S. NOT. HARD.
Load More Replies...This is a horrible horrible way to make the point. Why should men "deserve" to pay more?? Women deserve to pay less -in other words equal to men - but that's not the same thing as charging men more!
Why not lower the price of women's products? I agree with their point, but if I saw that sign I would probably go to another shop.
Yeah, right, fight sexism and inequality with sexism and inequality, that will surely send the message they intend to
"Women are spending more in general". That's an interesting statement. I do go crazy with all my makeup, trying new things, so I do spend much more in that area (so, at the pharmacy). Also, what does "with Clinton being such a woman" mean? It sounds like this pharmacy just hasn't thought their reasoning quite through. They might be doing this partly for exposure.
I'm pretty sure men pay the same thing as women for make-up, and women pay the same thing as men for couch syrup.
Load More Replies...Meh... Now guys will send their girls even to buy them medicine.... As groceries were not enough....
Interesting remark. But it hits the essence – you never know the "side effects".
Load More Replies...This is stupid, and even the wrong sign if you prefer symbolism. Just a few concerns: a) why not raise men prices by 3,5% and lower women prices by 3,5% if you want to do something for your customers? b) Why punish those that buy and not those that sell? c) why not take into account that there might be a reason behind prices? For example, women might in general buy more sophisticated beauty products. Is that right or wrong? I do not know, but prices are just an effect then. d) How would you take into account actual spending patterns? If you strive for equality with simple, disconnected actions, it would be the next consequence to make women pay more in restaurants...because if couples go out more often the guy pays the bill. Let us not strive for gender equality but for equality of people, whatever their (biologial, social, psyhcological, ...) background is. And this is nothing that comes with rules, regulations, quotas or the like, but by abandoning old-fashioned thinking.
Basically I agree with your point, especially b), very well said! BUT... About c)... Well, contraception pills are no beauty products....
Load More Replies...100% certified B******T... first of all the "gender pay gap" of "women getting paid less" is a MYTH and a LIE. women don't get "paid less" than men. if a woman and man have the same job... they will get paid the SAME. the lie that "women make 70 cents for every 1 dollar a man makes" doens't take into account 1) there are more MEN in the workforce (some women are still stay at home moms.) 2) women take more time off than men. (maternity leave for instance.) 3) women take jobs with more comfortable working conditions and less physical labour, trading off comfort for higher salary... (how many guys work in a "nail salon"? how many Women work on a Construction site) 4) Men work MUCH HIGHER RISK JOBS which carry a higher salary... (90% of work place deaths are men.) so do the salaries of all the working women "make less" than ALL the working men? Yes because there are more men working more phsyically demaning, more dangerous, higher paying jobs, for longer hours. PERIOD.
Isnt he ruining his business by doing this? One would think men would avoid his store like the plague.
"with Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing" I assume the "other guy" she's referring to is Bill Clinton, Mr. former womanizer in chief. This is beyond stupid, and why a lot of good causes end up loosing steam.
"make a statement about gender discrimination" by discriminating based on gender.....the hipocracy continues!
Women's products do not even contain the same ingredients as men's products. They are NOT the same product, you can not compare them. It is no sexism here, it is simply more expensive to develop and produce a woman's product instead of a man's one. That's why they cost more.
Nothing's more equal then ..not..being..equal. This can't be legal. I would never shop there
How about discounting women's products instead of upping men's products, which in the end is just giving the shop an extra 7% profit on men's stuff. Clever bit of marketing 😜
i like the vibe, but how did you compute that women stuff is 7% more expensive then men's? lipstick vs shaving razor?
Same brand deodorant for women vs men. Same brand shaving razor for women vs for men. etc That's how they determined it. However, this comparison is still stupid because, even if they are made by the same brand and are used for the same purpose they are NOT the same product. Women's products tended to have more ingredients in them (like deodorants) or more complex shapes (like razors) which makes them more expensive. And by my logic, that's fair.
Load More Replies...Leftist s**t. Why don't they bring the women stuff discount instead of adding this artificial tax to men stuff? What if a woman buys men stuff or man buys women stuff?
Because they wanna make more money through sexist b******t.
Load More Replies...I don't get it. If it's too expensive for women, why raise the price for men instead of lowering it for women?
Let's force men to use expensive women cosmetic products...For equality of course..
Soooo in essence, the pharmacy is making 7% more than they should, per male customer, by covering it up as "awareness".
Wow! This is the most brilliant idea! Next tech stores should have a 10% tax on Non gaming consumers to show how expensive gaming peripherals are.
Thats sexist and the company or store owner needs to be sued and in my opinion, put into a Gulag, to learn what tru socialistic behaviour is like.
Okay but if you do this men have to make more so STFU about pay inequality.
No. The "7% men tax" isn't even a tax. In that store, the men are paying the market rate, and the women are paying 7% less. Also, men DO make more. For every pound a man makes, a woman in the same job makes 78 pence. And, if you get two of what is pretty much the exact same product, except one of them is marketed as "for women" and the other "for men", the womens one will almost always cost more.
Load More Replies...Awesome! Now all those Dads, Husbands, Sons and Brothers can have less money to spend on their Daughters, Wives, Moms & Sisters! Well thought out!
So they are using a "Study" and :Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing" as a way to be stupid and punish those that simply want to buy and not care your opinion of a study on what products cost more or less. Some people just want the attention regardless of the stupidity they provide.
Two weeks later... Pharmacy has "going out of business" sale. Tax free for all!
Ha - I always thought that women should get a 17% discount on things because that's how much less women earn.
hi.. And anybody should count how much of the resources feeding to the system males an how much females...
This just makes us ladies look like we need "extra help in life" WE ARE JUST AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER MAN!!!
FILTHY FEMINISTS They should all burn and this store should get torched down.
Offcourse it's sexist. But the message is that as the store is sick, so is the system.
If there issue is that women's PRODUCTS cost 7% more then why are they taxing men? Surely it would make more sense to add the tax to men's products rather than arbitrarily charging men more just because they are men, what if the man is out buying products for his wife? Women do tend to buy more products than men, so you'd think that they would be cheaper, but it doesn't work like that, women want these products more so will pay more for them, it's supply and demand, it's capitalism, it sucks!
Interesting. I was watching Dr. Oz and they did a shopping comparison. Women's products, even though they have the same exact ingredients on the average pay $1.00 more per product that they buy.
I have never seen a men's product that had the same ingredients as a woman's product. Please give examples, I'm seriously interested in that.
Load More Replies...How is it sexist if they're trying to make sure that both genders are charged equally
They are not charged equally because the products are not the same. That's why it's sexist.
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