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Latest shortage is Us: Coins
- Thread starter nihilence
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Maybe they can take this chance to finally cancel pennies? Such a hassle.
Though I guess some stupid Senator will start a crusade if they do.
Though I guess some stupid Senator will start a crusade if they do.
A fucking men brother. Get rid of the penny. Its worthless. It costs more to produce than its worth and no one even wants them. Everything we buy should end in a 5 or 0.
For whatever reason some laundromats and apartment laundry rooms still want to fuck around with quarters
Guess I should stock up on quarters to do laundry or yell at my landlord to get rid of the coin ops.
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Yes, like gamer score, should be 0 or 5 only. Just round everything up as a "tax" I don't care.
Damn! Didn't think of that lol. I was thinking the last things were parking meters and vending machines, but they both accept card or app payments.
This is what we did in Canada. If you pay in cash, it's rounded up or down.
.01 , .02 =.00 / .03, .04=.05
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I've got a whole huge jar of change. Time to tell it on Craigslist for a profit. $1 gets you 75 cents! These deals won't last long!
I've seen alot of videos on Facebook of people using pennies for eproxy flooring. "Proxy: The clear menese!
The last coin we discontinued was the half penny. At that time, it was worth the equivalent of a quarter today.
Its a real problem for retail business right now. No armored car companies are delivering change, and all banks are begging for change from their customers.
Of course I ran into a guy who swore this change shortage was fake, he's got the inside scoop. "My wife works for a bank, and they are getting all the change they need from people"
Of course I ran into a guy who swore this change shortage was fake, he's got the inside scoop. "My wife works for a bank, and they are getting all the change they need from people"
That's so strange to me. I can probably count on one hand how many times I've used cash or coins in the past two years.
Damn. We're lucky that our building made laundry free since the beginning of the pandemic.
A lot of laundromats are hurting right now. Their whole business model is built around quarters.
Yeah dude, the amount of "COIN SHORTAGE IS A HOAX PERPETUATED BY THE ONE WORLD SHADOW GOVERNMENT" conspiracy posts I see on social media these days is uh... dumb as shit.
Oh wow, that's cool at least. The slumlord-owned apartments we live in recently raised ours to $2.50 a load (so $5.00 to wash and dry). You literally have to put two quarters per slot in the little metal push pay thing and all the slots are used, something I have never seen in anything before. One of my friends live in an apartment that has some phone app you can use to pay, which seems like it would be incredibly convenient right now.
Yep I work at a Grocery Store and it's a pain. We can't fill up our Self Check Outs will rolled coins, we gotta fill it up with individual coins which takes forever. Eventually we may run out of coins and have to just put the change on people's membership card.
My apartment's laundry only takes no change...the card reader doesn't work...and we can't give out quarters. If I didn't live near my parents who let me use their washing machine I'd be fucked
My apartment's laundry only takes no change...the card reader doesn't work...and we can't give out quarters. If I didn't live near my parents who let me use their washing machine I'd be fucked
My boss believes it is a way for Bill Gates to control us by putting chips in us that would be our wallets.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/keeping-the-change-mass-walmart-customer-denied-change-back/33397696
I bumped the thread because my friend mentioned it to me earlier and this was just on the local news, so apparently it's a much larger issue than I thought.
The article hints that less production and stay at home consequences are contributing to the shortage but offers no firm thesis on the main reason. It also suggests hoarding and reverse-hoarding are things (coinstar phenomena)
I'm surprised online shopping hasn't created a surplus tbh but obviously I don't understand. Any numismatist have a better theory?
I'm surprised online shopping hasn't created a surplus tbh but obviously I don't understand. Any numismatist have a better theory?
Seems to be getting better where I'm at. Just this week our bank eased the restrictions on how many rolls we can order. So instead of 10 rolls of each, we can order 16 rolls. So now for a 24 hour business we can get $8 in Penny's instead of $5. Gave us enough to maybe last a few hours longer before we run out.
Our management company did this too, but just sent an email out last week saying they will start collecting change again next week. They technically didn't make it free either, they asked people to add $15 per person per month to their rent, which we felt was reasonable considering it's $4 per wash/dry cycle and we do two per week or so. Really not looking forward to change hunting.
Yeah my grocery store's self checkout is only accepting card. You can only use cash with actual cashiers
An article I read on it boiled it down to less coins than usual being circulated due to reduced business, etc.