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So is this one of those things where Americans do the common sense thing and agree?
Or is this the another classic case of a few very loud and emotional Americans screaming with passion and zero logic?
Or is it one of those situations where everything seems to go smoothly. And then you figure out that they didn't add the correct rounding regulations, so you'll be paying a little extra on every single transaction the store puts at .96?
Here in Canada we got rid of the penny years ago.
When paying in cash, we round to the nearest 0.05 but with card payments it's still the exact price.
Also, the amount of money you'd lose by rounding in a cash transaction is pretty minimal.
It's going to be 2 and 3.
First 3. Then 2 because yokels will complain that "them walmarts is stealin my money!"
I do have a funny story about someone determined to get his .01 cent.
USAF. We were leaving after a month long TDY (not a deployment, but you do go to a different place, stands for Temporary Duty Assignment) to England. The crew and us maintenance guys all stayed at the same hotel off base. We spent this month meeting with them in the morning in front of the fire place, and usually finding out the mission got canceled for the day. We were all ready to go home.
The head maintenance guy was a penny pincher. He had like 8 kids, so he kind of had to. This is a guy that went around base picking fruit off the trees. He left Saudi with a large bag of free MREs. We all joked that that was the only way he could eat at home because no one else wanted to eat them.
Anyway, we're leaving finally. We're all on the bus. Air crew and maintenance. Maintenance usually has to show up about 45 mins prior so we can inspect and get everything ready. So this was going to be a quick turn and out. We stopped by the base gas station to pick up snacks for the flight home. Everyone but the head maintenance guy is back on the bus. 5 mins. 10 mins. 15 mins. The pilot finally had enough. "WTF is taking him so long?"
He goes in and comes back out almost right away with the guy in tow. Why was he in there so long? He was arguing with the cashier over his change....1 penny. The pilot went in, found out what the hold up was, and told him, "I'll give you the damned penny. lets go!" while dragging his ass out.