That's assuming meme math.

Practically speaking, I can buy from Amazon for the same or less than a storefront. So if you're charging me $30 at Target and $25+$5 at Amazon, its still no loss to order off my phone rather than fight the crowd at a Big Box.

That's before the time savings of never having to leave my house to shop. For some reason, Lemmyites understand working from home as a cost savings but stumble on shopping from home.

In most places the tax is included in the price and often mandatory because nearly every country in the world can figure out a way to do exactly that.