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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 838911, member: 22476&quot;]I was thinking, I wonder if self checkouts could currently be programmed to dispense dollar coins, after or IF the machine runs out of $1 bills. But as of right now, until we get rid of the $1 bill, I feel that self checkouts should only accept dollar coins, and not dispense them. There would be no point, as people would probably be asking near by cashiers for $1 bills every time they got a dollar coin in change at the machine. And also, how would a machine know who would want $1 bills and who would want dollar coins? BUT maybe, just maybe, if the stores would have self checkouts dispense DOLLAR COINS ONLY, and the stores told people that THAT is what they are dispensing, as it saves more money for machines to dispense only dollar coins, and not deal as much with bills, and THAT is what you MUST take, then it &quot;could&quot; work. This idea would be good to do with a $2 coin as well, and have the machines stop dispensing $2 bills (if they ever do make machines dispense $2 bills at first), although still accepting them, and only dispensing $2 coins as needed. Oh, and they could still be programmed to accept and despense halves as needed. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(I almost posted this in my topic about vending machines that accept and/or dispense halves).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But wouldn&#039;t this be a good idea for the $1 coin, and potentially the half and a $2 coin if the stores had these machines set up to accept paper $1 and $2 bills, but only spit out $1 and $2 coins in the respective bill&#039;s place, as needed? If every type of vending machine in the U.S. accepted, and more importantly, spit out $1 and $2 coins, and halves, they would all be common and people would spend them, just to get rid of them, or collect them in a change jar to return to a bank, or hoard them for a while, until they have too many to keep.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for cash registers not having spaces in their drawers for halves, $1 and $2 coins, I have heard of cash drawers with up to 8 coin slots, so, if stores replaced their current drawers with these 8 coin slot drawers, there&#039;s your answer: 1c, 5c, 10c, 25c, 50c, $1, $2, and $5. Yes, even a U.S. $5 coin in the future as Canada talks about a Canadian $5 coin a lot. But I do not think that the $1 bill is going anywhere any time soon, let alone the $2 and $5 bills, unfortunately. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Nice thought though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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