• @[email protected]
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    The price at checkout just rounds to the nearest nickel by law. Pennies needed to go 10 years ago, it’s been great here

    • @[email protected]
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      -522 hours ago

      There is absolutely zero truth to that statement whatsoever. There are a grand total of zero federal laws which require retailers, or anyone for that matter to round to the nearest nickel… There may be a state or two who do this, and that’s great. But no one is required federally to do it. So saying that it’s “by law” is not only misleading, but it’s a boldface fucking lie.

        • @[email protected]
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          -1219 hours ago

          Considering the post he was replying to was about a US President telling the US Treasury to stop minting a specific US currency, OP is beyond stupid.

          • @Lasherz12
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            718 hours ago

            Brother, he’s from Lemmy.ca and is speaking about it like it’s been the case for a while. It’s okay to misread a situation without blaming someone else.

            • @[email protected]
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              -918 hours ago

              So a Canadian makes a statement in a US thread, about a US policy by a US President mistaking the situation and applying logic from a completely different country and passing it off like it’s the most obvious thing in the world, and I’m the bad guy?

              This place is just as shitty as Reddit sometimes, I guess.

              • @Lasherz12
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                917 hours ago

                You’re only the “bad guy” for lashing out when it’s not called for and doubling down, but I ain’t your momma. Go off queen.

    • @[email protected]
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      -81 day ago

      For 99% of things I completely agree. But pennies can make for cheaper and better quality bases for some wargame models and also penny pushers at the arcade are pretty fun. Pushing the minimum spend up on those significantly would not be great.

      Overall it is probably still worth it but there are some good things we will lose.

      • snooggums
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        There are plenty of pennies in circulation for those uses and still will be for decades or centuries.