If we lived in a just world, an angry mob would have gathered outside your door with torches and pitchforks by now.
Not much copper in pennies anymore. However they are a waste of zinc so continue the ban.
Nickles have more than 5 cents of metal in them as well, though they aren’t as pointless as the penny.
We should also ban the one dollar bill as well as the old one dollar coin. Sakkie is fine. And two dollar bills rock.
Oh, and if a cashier wants to keep the extra penny, that’s fine with me.
Q: A one cent Euro coin has been minted. Is it commonly used? Why?
If you want to keep the penny, just cut the bullshit and charge me exactly $2. Otherwise, fuck you that’s my penny. Give it.
It bothers you enough to remember it. If I were you, I would report that employee to the manager, because he is stealing from the customers.
Dishonest employees stealing just a few cents at a time from many customers can add up quite a lot! Esp. in a store with lots of customers. How many people frequent that Donut shop in a day? Lets guesstimate 300 people, and he skims 1 penny from every 10th customer, every day. Makes 30 cents a day.
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[li]My logical programmer’s mind doesn’t like things not “balancing”.[/li][/quote]
And managers don’t like the till coming out uneven when it’s balanced at the end. So in order to avoid this, the dishonest employee takes the additional money from the till.
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Yes. If management decides that the psychological effect of the lower number before the dot* (1 and something) is worth more than the hassle of giving change in pennies, then he is sabotaging that.
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[li]I’m from a country where we’ve done away with 1, 2 and 5 cent coins. Strange as it sounds, I was fine with that because it’s an official thing. Why doesn’t the US get rid of the damn penny and this sillyness of near worthless coins.[/li][/quote]
Again, it’s not his decision. If this policy were implemented it would be across the board, and rounding up and down would even out. Currently, you are being taken advantage of by a scumbag, who knows you don’t consider it worth the bother to report him.
- The effect of people to consider 1.99 less than 2 is well documented in psycholoy and marketing.
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It’s not used for pre-calculated prices (except the ones which end in .99, but those are always Big Corporations - small shopkeepers would rather avoid the hassle), but it allows smaller price intervals. If you’re buying 765g apples you want to pay for 765g apples, not for 1kg apples, right? People don’t want the price of those 765g apples rounded to the nearest 0/5 either.
YES!!
Standing around and waiting for my change is my revenge for stores continuing with this psychological farce of charging 1-5 cents under the next dollar value for an item to make their products seem cheaper.
FWIW, a restaurant opened up around here that has prices that, once tax is added, come out to 50-cent values. It’s awesome!
Pennies used to have a purpose. You could cement one near the positive terminal of your car’s battery and avoid all that green fuzzy stuff that grew on the terminal, and you could watch the penny disappear over time as the green fuzz attacked it instead. Cool stuff. You can’t do that anymore now that federal alchemists changed the alloy.
Some comedian had a bit about the “waiting for a penny change” dilemma. If you wait, you’re saying “I am so stingy that I will stand around waiting for even one tiny worthless penny!”, while if you just leave without it, it’s “I’m so important I can’t even be bothered to waste ten seconds for the lowly cashier to hand my cash money that is rightfully mine!” It’s a lose-lose situation.
If my example is representative, it’s useful to fill boxes of one and two cent coins. Some countries have discontinued the minting and use of 1 and 2 cent coins.
In France, I’ve heard a lot of people complain about those worthless coins. What is weird is that before the switch to the Euro, we had in France 5 and 10 “centimes” coins that were worth, in fact, even less. However, nobody complained about them or told the shopkeeper to keep them, etc… I think that the fact it’s a “1” cent coin makes it psychologically appear more worthless than a less valuable coin with a “5” on it.
Yes, it’s only because of pennies that we don’t have enough zinc to eradicate the flu.
Give him a quarter, you cheapskate.
Maybe the cashier truly believes that .9999… = 1
Pennies have value in the marketplace - however small. And it makes sense that eliminating the penny will play a negative hand in inflation - prices will be slightly rounded up, not down.
Also they have the potential to last for decades in circulation, so one cannot say we don’t get our “two cents” worth out of them.
The real morons are the people who hoard coins by putting them in jars and things, taking them out of circulation and rendering them useless, costing the taxpayer tons of money every year by creating the need to manufacture more coins.
I think we should go back to the Mill so I can finally pre-pay my gasoline bill when I fill up.
Every penny I get goes straight into the garbage. I hate them.
We need pennies no more than we need a tenth of a cent coin. Do you worry that prices are currently rounded up to the nearest penny?
If you abolish the penny, transactions will automatically round to the nearest nickel, which will cost you absolutely nothing at the end of the day, thanks to the magic of averaging random numbers. Businesses will mostly set prices like they do now, except things will cost $7.95 instead of $7.99, thus saving you penny-nerds four worthless cents.
That’s everyone. Because the penny has no value.
Ha! I’ll stop in the middle of Tim Horton’s parking lot and pick up an ancient corroded almost completely defaced penny, despite the drizzle and slush.
I AM SCROOGE MCDUCK!
What’s wrong with the threat of violence?
One has to draw the line somewhere. No, I am not concerned prices will be rounded up to the nearest penny - in other words, we have the penny and that is small enough a denomination. I however don’t want to pay one penny extra for anything if I don’t need to.
My concern is it will be more likely prices will be rounded up from $7.99 to $8.00, not down to $7.95 - to use your example.
But the penny does have value, however small. And we disagree that it should be eliminated.
I use the several pennies that have accumulated when paying cash for gas, or esp when going through the drive thru, enables me to use exact change which speeds up service. (It’s easy to count the pennies while waiting in line at Wendy’s.)