Posted on 11/13/2025 8:22:19 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Woodman's grocery stores have implemented new cash handling policies in response to a nationwide penny shortage, joining other regional retailers adapting to the end of U.S. penny production.
The employee-owned grocery chain began rounding all cash transactions to the nearest nickel on Monday. Purchases ending in 1¢, 2¢, 6¢, or 7¢ are rounded down, while totals ending in 3¢, 4¢, 8¢, or 9¢ are rounded up.
A more significant change takes effect Dec. 8, when Woodman's self-checkout registers will no longer accept cash payments. The self-service stations will only process card payments, including debit and credit cards, Discover, Mobile Pay, EBT Food Benefit cards, and Woodman's Gift Cards. Customers who prefer cash can continue using staffed checkout lanes.
Woodman's approach differs from Kwik Trip's recent policy change, which rounds all cash purchases down in customers' favor.
The U.S. Treasury ended penny production in 2025. Woodman's posted notices this week explaining both policy changes to customers.
Card and digital payment users remain unaffected by the rounding changes, as electronic transactions continue processing exact amounts.
“Its to the nearest nickle, not dime.”
Give them time. With the failure of math from high school grads they won’t know the difference.
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LOL! I’m sure I visited that one on the times I had to stay in Kenosha.
Woodmans can have good buys.
I’m waiting for the articles about women and minorities hurt the most.
They make it so complicated.
Start pricing in 5 cent increments.
How hard do they need to make this? 0-4 goes down. 5-9 goes up.
We learned this in grammar school.
to me it is easier to round up if above 5 and down if below 5. Are the registers going to do this or do the operators have to do it in their heads?
I read your comment and laughed. I do something similar. I take out $100 a week.
At the end of the week, I put what’s left in my wallet into my safe. I call it my “goodies” money. I don’t think I’ve spent more than $40 in cash in a week in ages. Unless I am getting a haircut…
Last year I was about to buy a bunch of goodies for my grandkids at Christmas.
My change jar used to bring in a couple hundred dollars a year. Since COVID, I think the most I’ve ever had is about $25 in a year.
We are already a cashless society.
I can’t go back to Skimore college. Ever. Lifetime ban.
(I had to go there for work 20 years after the fact. I had a good chuckle about my lifetime ban with the guard working the event.)
I was told by the judge in 1980 to stay away from Saratoga Springs in general.
Those people have no sense of humor.
“Walmart sells about everything like Amazon.”
Including your contacts, your location data, your list of applications, photographs, web activity, and WiFi access point names and locations.
With 2 to 7% back on credit purchases at the grocery (plus gasoline discounts up to 80 cents a gallon) why use cash? (Assuming you pay your card off every month.)
Woodman has enough trouble dealing with Kotter and his Sweathogs.
Its only cash purchases so I guess (at least initially) the operators will do this manually at the register.
Credit/debit card purchases wont change.
Adding the sales tax often results in odd totals.
That has been true at Publix for at least the past year.
I am all about rounding down on any tax. Ha ha.
Just a little ahead of the game, save that for the last nickle struck...
Start pricing in 5 cent increments.
Plus a fractional sales tax to some of the items in your basket?
That'll never be even.
Let's bring back the tales tax tokens. Nothing like having to dig out a handful of tokens to remind the peons that they have a burdensome tax at every turn.
Makes sense, it will even out.
The rounding is correct. Your rounding is to the nearest dime.
Bad. Very Bad.
“””Purchases ending in 1¢, 2¢, 6¢, or 7¢ are rounded down, while totals ending in 3¢, 4¢, 8¢, or 9¢ are rounded up.”””
Penny foolish for them to not round down 3 and 8 cents.
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