Would like to get some feedback... are you still encountering the “coin shortage”? Seems to be more likely at fast food or convenience stores (places where cash is still more frequently used), and it is still a thing here (southeast US).
On one hand, I think there might be small grift operations in place: Crew at Taco Hell decides “let’s just not give out any change this shift and we’ll split the overage when we tally the drawer”.
And then I’ve heard people say it’s something about copper and coin content, but I don’t quite get the “why” part. (I was amazed to learn that while I knew the penny contains almost no copper, that it is the bulk of the other coins’ content.) Meanwhile I am seeing good evidence for copper values increasing in the market across the last year.
Third theory is that it’s part of the transition to cashless.
Would like to hear more thoughts on this or other ideas. And one last question: Is it time to break the piggy bank and offload that pile of change I’ve been hoarding.
Know a few people who work in retail.
Banks are denying mainstream stores like family dollar change.
Meanwhile my husband does contract sales for a locally owned, yet big $$$ making building material supply chain (basically a small town lowes. Have several store locations around) and the change shortage doesnt seem to be a problem at all.
In other words. Seems coordinated and manufactured to me.
Yup, I even joked with a dollar store employee that it was a hoax, and he completely agreed that the shortage was not real, but made up for whatever reason.
A cashless society is part of their communism eat bugs and own nothing scam. The coin shortage is the dumbest thing I've heard of after covid hoax