mickeyd
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Is it time to get rid of the penny? Got this as part of an email from NPR today. I'm ok if I never see copper again.
via Consumerist
An unidentified Dunkin' Donuts store is getting rid of pennies (unless customers really want pennies, in which case, Ok). Here's the report from Consumerist.
The anti-penny movement is a modern classic that seems to bubble up every few years. There are obvious reasons for this — pennies are a hassle, you can't buy anything with them, etc.
There's also the fact that it costs the government 1.7 cents to make one penny. So the more pennies we make, the more money we lose.
A quick tour of the recent anti-penny landscape:
By the way: I called Dunkin's headquarters to see where the company stands on the penny question. Pro-anti-penny? Anti-anti-penny? Indifferent? I got voice mail and left a message. I'll update this post when I hear back.
- <LI sizcache="28" sizset="83">A bill that would have killed the penny and rounded all transactions to the nearest five cents was introduced in Congress in 2006. <LI sizcache="28" sizset="84">NPR visited a no-pennies-allowed store last year. "I'm gonna tell you to keep these three pennies ... I refuse to take them" <LI sizcache="28" sizset="85">"Penny Dreadful," perhaps the definitive anti-penny treatise, ran in the New Yorker in '08. "They're horrid and useless. Why do pennies persist?"
- Here's the pro-penny take from Americans for Common Cents. As USA Today notes, the group's backers include zinc producers; the penny is actually made of zinc and plated with copper.