A local grocery store here would. I would then print out a voucher which I could take to the local store and pick up the batteries. But that Web site did not add sales tax, and apparently isn't required to do so. By law, I owe that tax whether it was collected automatically or not. State law would require me to keep track of it and report it on my annual state income tax forms.
Few people do that, however or even realize they are supposed to do so.
That is one reason buying via the Internet is becoming so popular. Of course, state and local governments are fretting about that trend. It was the theme of a presentation to congressional staff last week by Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan, the president of the Utah League of Cities and Towns. He said 51 percent of the Utah local government tax base comes from the now-vulnerable sales tax. Dolan also talked about how merchants in the local South Towne Mall report the increasing phenomenon of people coming in to look over merchandize and then going home to buy it on the Internet to escape the sales tax.