The Real Reason You’re Being Asked to Tip More Than 20%
It’s a beautiful Saturday morning. You’re taking a lovely stroll through your local farmers market. You come across a stall selling the most beautiful carrots you’ve ever seen.
You grab a bunch and motion to the stall manager that you’d like to check out.
They come over and ask for your card, swiping it on a mobile payment processor.
Before the transaction is finished the stall manager turns the screen to you and says: “If you can just answer the question on the screen for me.”
You know the question they’re going to ask. You’ve been through this routine before.
Three buttons pop onto the screen:
18%
20%
25%
You meekly tap the middle option — 20% — before declining a receipt that will inevitably end up in your inbox anyways.
Does this scenario sound familiar?
Leaving a tip used to be something you did when you went out to eat. Now it seems like everywhere you go you’re being asked to leave one.
Guilt tipping is becoming ubiquitous at places like grocery stores, small retail shops, and even your local farmers market.
