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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26573142, member: 4626&quot;]I work at... a certain retailer, let&#039;s say.&nbsp; They have self-checkout machines; today 3 of the 5 that take cash couldn&#039;t take cash anymore, because we were out of pennies to put in them.&nbsp; On human-operated registers this isn&#039;t a problem; we can just round off the change to the nearest nickel (always in the customer&#039;s favor).&nbsp; But the computers haven&#039;t been told how to do that, or even that they can do that, so... they insist that being out of pennies means they can&#039;t take cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the human-operated registers were even given pennies when we opened today.&nbsp; From what I hear, IT is trying to update the POS software to do 2 things:</p><p>1. Tell self-checkout stations that they can round off prices, and change due to the customer, to the nearest nickel</p><p>2. They can accept cash even if the penny hopper is empty</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re hoping this is in place by another week or two, but no estimate yet on when this will happen.&nbsp; Likely within the next day or two without more pennies, or the software fix, none of the self-checkout stations will be able to accept cash, so any cash customers will have to go to the handful of human-operated registers we have.</p><p><br /></p><p>This as this company is trying to move to like, 90 to 95% self-checkout (&quot;cashiers&quot; mostly are there to observe and assist customers in the self-checkout section, with only 1 or 2 cashiers running an actual register).</p><p><br /></p><p>This topic has probably been beaten to death already lol, but thought I&#039;d throw in personal observations about what the transition to a post-penny world is looking like in the early stages.</p><p><br /></p><p>(BTW I&#039;m all for getting rid of the penny, good riddance, and it was a long time coming. Just observing what the transition is starting to look like as they work out how to deal with the consequences of no pennies.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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