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<p>[QUOTE="Cashmoney, post: 1047786, member: 28163"]<b>The penny will last....</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Tahoma">The One Cent piece will never go away. It is a necessary evil. Why??? SALES TAX. No matte how you round the price of a good or service, The applied sale tax on a purchase almost always results in getting change that will include pennies. If any penny haters out there want to forgo those few cents every transaction please say so. I'm sure you'd love to just let the merchant have the chage. I'm sure they would appreciate it very much. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Tahoma">Also, another consideration. Merchants have a tendency to want to get as much as they can for their products as possible. It is much easier to increase the price of an item a cent here, a cent there, than it is to do it by a minimum of 5 cents. Best example: Gasoline. Ever see a price war between two gas stations at the same intersection? Imagine if an owner only had the option to undercut his competitor by 5 cents per gallon? </font></p><p><font face="Tahoma"> </font></p><p><font face="Tahoma"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cashmoney, post: 1047786, member: 28163"][b]The penny will last....[/b] [FONT=Tahoma]The One Cent piece will never go away. It is a necessary evil. Why??? SALES TAX. No matte how you round the price of a good or service, The applied sale tax on a purchase almost always results in getting change that will include pennies. If any penny haters out there want to forgo those few cents every transaction please say so. I'm sure you'd love to just let the merchant have the chage. I'm sure they would appreciate it very much. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Also, another consideration. Merchants have a tendency to want to get as much as they can for their products as possible. It is much easier to increase the price of an item a cent here, a cent there, than it is to do it by a minimum of 5 cents. Best example: Gasoline. Ever see a price war between two gas stations at the same intersection? Imagine if an owner only had the option to undercut his competitor by 5 cents per gallon? [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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