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minus-squaretomkatt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoGuarantee Walmart starts pricing things at $xx.96 and milking $0.04 on every transaction.
minus-squaremalin@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoThis means pennies will stop being made, but the concept of 1 cent will still exist. Most payments are digital, anyways. This won’t have any meaningful effect.
minus-squareSilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoIf they do it they way we did in Canada, that would round down to 95¢ and you’d get a nickel back
minus-squaretomkatt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoThat would be great, but… Murica and all that. If they can fuck us without lube, they will.
minus-squarecabillaud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 hours agoExactly what they did here when we switched to euro
Guarantee Walmart starts pricing things at $xx.96 and milking $0.04 on every transaction.
This means pennies will stop being made, but the concept of 1 cent will still exist.
Most payments are digital, anyways. This won’t have any meaningful effect.
If they do it they way we did in Canada, that would round down to 95¢ and you’d get a nickel back
That would be great, but… Murica and all that. If they can fuck us without lube, they will.
Exactly what they did here when we switched to euro