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Post by HighCotton on Jun 30, 2020 11:43:36 GMT -5
As I’m traveling through Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, I’m seeing signs at truck stops, restaurants and stores asking patrons to pay with cards due to “coin shortages!” Never saw this before!? What’s up? Any ideas?
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Post by jjas on Jun 30, 2020 11:47:23 GMT -5
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Post by parson on Jun 30, 2020 11:58:24 GMT -5
Lowe's in Muncie had a coin shortage sign today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 11:59:21 GMT -5
So I need to save the mint 3-5/2020 coins and save them for my sons. Might be worth something 50 years from now.
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Post by steiny on Jun 30, 2020 12:44:09 GMT -5
Was in Aldis this week and they would not take cash for payment unless you had exact change. Said it is their nationwide policy.
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Post by jbird on Jun 30, 2020 13:01:00 GMT -5
I haven't seen anything of the sort.... Makes me look at the coin jar I have a little differently however. I'll go to the store and roll in like a Baller!!!! With that change jingle in my pocket!!!! Just nod at people like, "Yep, I know...you wish you was me!" I may pay my whole bill just in change....just to show off!!!!
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jun 30, 2020 13:36:26 GMT -5
First signs I saw for it was at a gas station here in Florida. I had no clue there was a shortage.
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Post by featherduster on Jun 30, 2020 13:46:22 GMT -5
The problem I have been having with change is finding a bank that has a change counter machine. I have become a change hoarder because I don't want to waste my time counting and rolling coins.
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Post by esshup on Jun 30, 2020 14:39:16 GMT -5
Bullhockey on not paying with cash. "legal tender" is stamped on the money, if they don't like it they can try to stop me when I walk out the door after leaving exact change for the stuff I have in hand. I have plenty of coins and they won't like getting paid in paper money and in pennies but too dang bad.
It's going to come to a point in time where I have a list of stores that I won't shop at because of their store policies.
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Post by deadeer on Jun 30, 2020 19:16:12 GMT -5
The problem I have been having with change is finding a bank that has a change counter machine. I have become a change hoarder because I don't want to waste my time counting and rolling coins. My Credit Union in SB now charges 5 or 10% to count coins, even if depositing them, even though I am a 30yr member. Then they put a sign up if you have junk in your count, and it clogs up the machine, YOU pay the repair bill. WTH?That was THE LAST TIME I will ever do it again there. My wifes bank in LaPorte, I think LaPorte Savings, 2 blocks off SR2 in town, does our for free, and I always cash out with no questions. I save around $3-400 every year, and cash in before hunting season to pay for gas.
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Post by stevein on Jun 30, 2020 21:29:30 GMT -5
It's going to come to a point in time where I have a list of stores that I won't shop at because of their store policies. I still do not go into the Mejiers near me because they rearranged their store. The Lowes would not accept my card because it did not a chip. I am running out of places to shop.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 1, 2020 6:22:15 GMT -5
I save my pocket change in a two quart mason jar. When it gets full I take it to my credit union. They have a counting machine and it goes right into my account. No charge.
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Post by genesis273 on Jul 1, 2020 7:01:56 GMT -5
Honestly, I think it's a step towards a one world currency.
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Post by tenring on Jul 1, 2020 7:35:16 GMT -5
I've a bunch of coins stashed out in the garage some where, could take it in for paper money but the main lobby is blocked off and you have to go through the drive up. Suppose I could drive through and ask HTH can I get rid of all this.
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Post by parrothead on Jul 1, 2020 7:39:57 GMT -5
I pay cash for everything and keep a coin jug in my room. I cash it in every year before spring break. Last year it was 360.00 bucks. Luckily my back still has a coin machine for free.
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Post by sawmiller on Jul 1, 2020 10:20:30 GMT -5
Social tracking
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Post by Russ Koon on Jul 1, 2020 11:19:37 GMT -5
Most likely the first excuse they thought of to reduce the handling of money during the pandemic. Makes good sense to me, but then I have gone almost completely cashless for the last few years. I was kind of late coming to the credit card party, didn't get one until we vacationed in Florida when our son was sixteen, and I tried to rent a car for him and his buddy to cruise the local beaches. Found out that without a credit card, you had to be bonded to even rent car at a local Rent-a-Wreck lot. And about that same time, it also became a necessity if you wanted to reserve a room. That was about forty years ago, and since then, they have gradually become more a part of my life until now I have joined my younger brother who told me back then that he never carried cash, only a card.
No handling of that dirty money that's already been handled by who-knows-how-many, and no change weighing your pants pocket down and littering that dresser top in the bedroom. I seldom go inside at a gas stop any more.
Pennies have been a pet peeve of mine for about a couple of generations now, since they became more costly to produce and distribute than they are worth at face value, and I believe nickels have now joined them in that category of ridiculous governmental waste.
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Post by jbird on Jul 2, 2020 12:50:37 GMT -5
At some point in time (hopefully not in my lifetime) we will be reduced to a card or some sort of chip in our arm. Cash won't exist except in the black market and criminal circles.....the government will be able to watch everything you purchase and when and how much. And as such be able to shut your account down if they feel it's warranted. You by "too many guns" or "too much ammo" or the like....they simply turn off the account and then you get visited by the ABC boys!
The government will push this as a means to make things more secure and safer and efficient....it will be...for them! And the sheep in our society will follow along like nothing is wrong....maybe it's my tin-foil hat being on too tight....but it's coming....as we embrace more and more technology we simply allow the big companies and the government to have more and more of a leash on us. Right now they exactly where you are if they want to if you have a cell phone in your pocket! Bbbaaaahhhh.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 13:03:21 GMT -5
Why do people obey even when the actions demanded of them are clearly immoral or to the detriment of their own survival?
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterword... The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.(Henry David Thoreau)
Man has continued to evolve by acts of disobedience. Not only was his spiritual development possible only because they were men who dare to say no to the powers that be in name of their conscience or their faith, but also his intellectual development was dependent on the capacity for being disobedient, disobedient to authorities who tried to muzzle (masks) new thoughts and to the authority of long-established unions which declared to change to be nonsense." (Erich Fromm, On Disobedience and other Essays.)
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Post by treetop on Jul 2, 2020 17:02:14 GMT -5
At some point in time (hopefully not in my lifetime) we will be reduced to a card or some sort of chip in our arm. Cash won't exist except in the black market and criminal circles.....the government will be able to watch everything you purchase and when and how much. And as such be able to shut your account down if they feel it's warranted. You by "too many guns" or "too much ammo" or the like....they simply turn off the account and then you get visited by the ABC boys! The government will push this as a means to make things more secure and safer and efficient....it will be...for them! And the sheep in our society will follow along like nothing is wrong....maybe it's my tin-foil hat being on too tight....but it's coming....as we embrace more and more technology we simply allow the big companies and the government to have more and more of a leash on us. Right now they exactly where you are if they want to if you have a cell phone in your pocket! Bbbaaaahhhh..... I believe your right but I believe it has more to do with them getting tax’s than anything plus they will know how much cash you have
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