Starbucks Guy screws me out of 30 cents.

[kurosh]

I order a small peppermint mocha frappuccino, exactly as it says right off the board. The price is $3.35. The guy rings it up. The register says + mocha. The guy says it's $3.95. I ask him why it's $3.95 when the board says $3.35. He looks kinda scared and stutters a lot, as he mumbles that it's the tax. He doesn't give me a receipt and walks away to start making a previous customer's order. He didn't give any of them receipts either.

There is definitely not a 18% total tax on anything here. I think it over and get pissed. However, someone is with me who will get very angry with me if I cause trouble again over something petty in public, so I can't ask him about it again. But, all these factors combined has made me very suspicious. After reading that taco bell thread a while back, I thought he was stealing the money and the [censored] made a mistake with the math or he is taking an extra 25 cents from everyone.

Ok... so, I stew for a bit while he makes it. I ask another girl working there for my receipt. She looks at the guy and he goes to get it. I get a duplicate copy. I don't know if that means anything. On it, it has the $3.35 and then a + .30 mocha and then +.30 tax.

Is it too petty? Doesn't the principle matter? Is there anything shady going on? Does Starbucks just have a policy of deceptive prices like that? Rate my play? There were several crucial decision points.