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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 3403898, member: 31533&quot;]I find grocery stores where it is easy to insert the coins in the check yourself out area. Some stores are better than others. For example, Walmart takes halves, but some other (like the local Meijer) does not... it regjects those. Some, like the Meijer, takes the dollar ones (SBA&#039;s and Sacs, not the Ikes). Kroger is a pain as theirs are so hard to use, similar to Target... basically can&#039;t load many coins at once. </p><p><br /></p><p>I try to not use more than about 50-70 $ in coins to pay, and sometimes the coin hoppers are full earlier, but this is a way, if you don&#039;t mind taking about 10 minutes to pay for your groceries in coins. The beauty of it is you can CRH and not have to have a dump bank or be forced to pay like 11% of it to a coinstar type thing (what a bad deal), and if you don&#039;t overdo it, usually the cashiers/people monitoring the counters don&#039;t say anything. Occasionally they do, but I just pretend I&#039;m dense or say well, I&#039;ve done it before and it&#039;s been no problem. If I want to be really rude because the person is hassling me, I occasionally say I don&#039;t have any other way to pay that day and if they don&#039;t want to take my cash, today, they can help me put some of what I bought back. Nah, they don&#039;t want that hassle. Other times I say I&#039;ll try not to do it again (and usually I go to a different store or wait several weeks to use them again). Surprisingly, most people who line up behind me indicate they are alright with waiting and if they aren&#039;t they just move to a different counter to check out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find this useful because my grocery money is the money I get to CRH with first. But the only hassle is bringing in a couple baggies of coins, which does weigh something and having it not rip a pocket (so it has to be in my purse and maybe an extra bag).... that also limits what I spend at a time with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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