One donut shop is taking a stand against the bacteria-ridden zinc disks of suck that are pennies. Reader Tom sent us this photo from a store he recently visited. In a policy change that was probably born during an 8 AM rush, this franchise appears to be are rounding customer totals up or down to the nearest five cents, and only providing pennies to those annoying people who actually want them.
Is the owner of this place a brat, or a visionary?
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This would just be another way for companies to screw us. They’d round everything UP I’m sure. A penny on every transaction adds up quick.
I just came back from Australia and they don’t have any denomination under 5c. Prices are just engineered to come out to round numbers.
If it’s really that insignificant, why don’t they just round DOWN the actual total each time? They would lose $40 every one thousand transactions, at worst.
I dump my change into a tray, when the tray is full, I dump it into a sack, when the sack is full, it’s off to coinstar for an amazon card.
The last time I went, out of $400, about $25 of it was pennies (about $300 was quarters, I think it is because I will always get at least one quarter and at least one penny in change from lunch, but am not always guaranteed to get a nickle or dime). I will keep them, thanks.
/IE, sure, round down all you want, but I will always want all of my change
If you start rounding up to the nearest nickel, then the nickel will end up being hated and then people will start rounding to the nearest dime, then the nearest quarter..pretty soon it’ll be rounding to the nearest dollar so we can do away with change permanently.
I offer to do this for customers at the grocery store I work at
Thanks to the Consumerist, I know I can wrap the pennies with tape and use trick or treaters as walking garbage bags.
Visionary.
Standard practice in New Zealand
The only use of pennies is for cashiers to make change. If we for some reason still have half pennies, it would be the same deal. So I don’t see the problem with rounding.
The penny is a very useful reminder of what our rulers have done to our money. We couldn’t keep a gold standard after 1933. We couldn’t keep a silver standard after 1964. We couldn’t keep a copper standard after 1982. Now, it appears we can’t even maintain a zinc standard.
Maybe the mint could just stamp a couple of extra zeros on the 2011 penny, replace Lincoln with Robert Mugabe and call it a new presidential dollar.