Posted on 11/04/2025 1:44:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Kroger, Love's and Home Depot are also dealing with copper coin shortages.
McDonald's is rounding cash transactions to the nearest nickel at some locations across the country as the fast-food chain deals with a penny shortage.
The rounding policy affects customers who pay cash without exact change, with totals adjusted up or down by as much as two cents.
For example, a meal costing $12.06 would be rounded down to $12.05.
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The change comes after the U.S. Mint stopped producing pennies earlier this year, creating shortages for businesses that rely on cash transactions.
The rounding only applies to cash payments. Credit card and app purchases are not affected by the policy.
McDonald's joins other major retailers experiencing penny shortages, including Kroger, Love's and Home Depot.
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I’d offer my two cents, but nobody is interested.
All you penny hoarders cough them up
What penny shortage??? We’ve all got thousands of them. Time to spend some of them!
Why not do what they did during the War and make the pennies out of metal other than copper?
Down or up?
There is no penny shortage.
Maybe there are a lot of people who think the Penny will go up in value once they stop making them.
Never. Once the government announced they weren't going to mint any more, why give them up?
People are going to hoard them even more.
They're one of the few currency denominations that's actually worth what it's made of, or worth even more - ironic considering it's part of a fiat currency.
When I was in Germany in the 1970’s they rounded transactions to the nearest five pfennig, or five cents. The pfennig was worth about one fourth of a U.S. cent at the time, but more than a modern U.S. cent.
"I'll hold up this line all day. You owe me four cents."
Had they already stopped? They were going to continue until all of the blanks were used and that was projected to last through early 2026.
But regardless, that is probably not why there is a "penny shortage" as there are so many of them in existence - more likely because people have started to horde them as collector's items. But for this, there would probably be plenty of them to go around for many years to come. They've only been minting them for well over a century. Even some of the "Indian Head" pennies occasionally were still showing up in circulation even in recent years and certainly still quite a number of wheat pennies.
Time to get rid of those worthless zinc pennies. But save the copper ones for the metal value.
"The current copper-plated zinc cent issued since 1982 weighs 2.5 grams, while the previous 95% copper cent still found in circulation weighed 3.11 g..."
*hoard
What penny shortage??? We’ve all got thousands of them. Time to spend some of them!
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Pennies prior to 1982 where all made of copper and has a base value primarily due to its metal content, with a current melt value of approximately $0.029 to $0.0307 per coin.
As copper goes up, so does the melt value of pre-1982 pennies.
Why not do what they did during the War and make the pennies out of metal other than copper?
https://www.livescience.com/32401-whats-a-penny-made-of.html
Cost more to make a penny than what a penny is worth, a lot more.
How could there be a penny shortage? There are some 114 billion in circulation, which is more than 300 for everyone in the country. Nobody needs more than four at any given time, because if you have five you can change them for a nickel.
I dated Penny Hoarder
way back in High School.
That girl had a lot of cents.
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