Canada’s penny heads into retirement
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"As of Feb. 4, the Canadian penny will no longer be distributed. All cash transactions will be rounded up or down to the nearest five-cent increment."
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/Canada+pe...xzz2JuG5M EHI
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What do you think? Personally, it was my hobby to collect pennies (collected over 2000 pennies)  Bye-bye penny!
Ponyo
says thanks to jim1 for this post.
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I guess now it really will be lucky if you find a penny on the ground
and I suppose this means no more prices ending in .99! |
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I guess now it really will be lucky if you find a penny on the ground
and I suppose this means no more prices ending in .99! |
I actually saw an article entirely about what will happen to prices ending in .99, and apparently in countries where they already got rid of the penny they still have those prices, so people aren't really anticipating huge changes. |
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yeah all that .99 stuff will stay the same, Im pretty sure.
Debit/credit transactions will be the same (so if your total is $10.91, you will pay that much) but if you pay in CASH it will be rounded up/down.
If you want to give/pay in pennies, you can, but the cashiers can't/won't give you pennies back.
Source- I'm a cashier
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Ppl better be rounding down.
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Ppl better be rounding down.
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$1.01, $1.02 = round down to $1
$1.06, $1.07 = round down to $1.05
$1.03, $1.04 = round up to $1.05
$1.08, $1.09 = round up to $1.10
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Apparently some stores are using this as a PR thing, and saying they will always round down |
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so wait, no more ass pennies?
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that's all i had in my wallet ...
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