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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2764364, member: 59677&quot;]I wrote about this elsewhere, but figured it&#039;s worth breaking out into the main forum to continue the discussion w/o hijacking somebody else&#039;s thread...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Over the past couple months, I&#039;m starting to see businesses (here in North Texas and also in Maine) quietly eliminate the cent. Oh, if you have exact change, they&#039;ll take it, but when making change, they don&#039;t bother.</p><p><br /></p><p>They do this by rounding in the customers favor 100% of the time, so they aren&#039;t getting any pushback.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I paid for lunch, $11.26 with a $20 and received $8.75 in change (the receipt says the correct 8.74).</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ve see cases where the $11.24 cost would have gotten me $8.80 in change, rather than break a roll of cents to give me the right $8.76...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody else?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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