Well IDK, I was a tech for nearly 6 years,and,at the shop I was working at, a TireShop, we rarely scheduled an inspection and an alignment on the same day.....because when a car comes in for an alignment, it is almost always because something is wrong, and it's gonna take parts to make it right.
It only takes a few minutes to do an inspection. As soon as I knew what was what, you would have got the report, and you would not even have received a bill. If you were still in the waiting area, we would have gone over the car together. Then you would have had the chance to stop the work, knowing ahead of time, what the bill was gonna come to. So these 15 or 20 minutes, are spent in building a relationship of trust. Yes we want your money, that's why we're in business. But we're not in business to rip you off......... cuz we want you to come back year after year, and your kids too, and all your friends, and relatives. Tires wear out about every two years,maybe three on a good alignment. We know you are gonna be a hostage to a tireshop somewhere/sometime, and we'd like to be the one, year after year. So if we have to give up 20 minutes on the meet and great, it's no big thing in the bigger picture.
The tires rubbing on the front corners is common after a certain tire diameter goes onto a certain wheel offset, and that is easy to foresee, so you would have had a chance to authorize changes.
And bytheby, I can't recall if I've ever changed just one strut bushing (or just one LCA bushing for that matter). That's just about guaranteed to come back and bite me.