Time for citizens to report thievery to the proper authorities.

My understanding is that places doing this are rounding prices to the nearest $.05.

So $8.21 and $8.22 (I know it was change, not the price, but you get the picture) would be $8.20
$8.23 and $8.24 is $8.25.

It's not that complicated.

is dystopian.

usually you have multiple items to buy and the pennies eventually get to the nickel level. And then sales tax.

I agree, if prices were written to the nearest nickel/dime/quarter/dollar and if taxes were included in the sticker price (like the rest of the world), then things would be easier.

I'm pretty sure some companies will still accept them, they're still legal tender. Not making new ones doesn't mean the old ones don't have value.

We're likely decades away from them being gone from circulation -- but maybe not.

What do i do with the huge jar 🫙 of pennies my hubby has saved? Will the government 🤔 take them back? They are still worth a penny.

Works for them. Cash transactions are rounded but .01 still exists if you pay by check or card and in banking transactions.

Or are they just rare? I only ask this because I was told before we went to France a few years ago that they didn't have pennies. While we were in Paris, that was true...all transactions were rounded. However, when we went out into rural France, we did receive change in pennies a couple of times.

I sorta wonder if that might be how it is for a few years as pennies slowly cycle out.

Tried to pay at a restaurant with exact change and they gave me the (American) pennies back as they had no use for them.