ConsumerAffairs

The penny is dead: How stores are now rounding your total

More fast-food, convenience, and travel stop chains are rounding cash totals to the nearest nickel when pennies aren’t available Big retailers and grocers are doing it too, often rounding in the ...
app.com

ShopRite will start rounding up and down rather than hand out pennies

ShopRite is rounding cash transactions to the nearest nickel due to a national penny shortage. The policy applies only to cash payments where the customer does not have exact change. This change ...
WBUR

Python’s Drum | Ep. 309

Think about someone you’d call a friend. What’s it like when you’re with them? Do you feel connected? Like the two of you are in sync? In today’s story, we’ll meet two friends who have always been in ...
Sports Illustrated

Steer Wrestling Heavy Hitters Throw Down in NFR Round 1

In the first round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, the big guys brought the heat. At the end of the day, five-time world champion Tyler Waguespack will start his NFR with a bang ...
The Verge

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

The longstanding provider of consumer memory is winding down as prices spike, and Micron shifts its focus to AI. The longstanding provider of consumer memory is winding down as prices spike, and ...
New York Post

Last US pennies could fetch up to $5 million after mint shuts down production: experts

The final US pennies struck this week might be worth a fortune. Coin experts estimate the last pennies minted Wednesday could sell for as much as $5 million each when they hit the auction block in ...
WRAL

Get used to rounding up: Pennies in short supply, no new ones being made

Signs are popping up on some Triangle store fronts, asking customers to round up or pay with a debit or credit card due to a nationwide penny shortage. And while pennies are in short supply, the U.S.
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa businesses consider rounding up or down following final minted penny

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT FIVE. WELL, THE PRODUCTION OF PENNIES ENDED YESTERDAY, LEAVING SOME BUSINESSES AND MORE HAVING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT WILL DO TO THEIR PRICES. YEAH. CRAZY TO THINK YOU CARRY AROUND ...
al.com

Best places to watch Alabama, Auburn recruits in Round 2 of playoffs

The Class of 2027 quarterback class has a chance to be the deepest and most talented in state history. The class of talented junior throwers is led by Gunner Rivers of St. Michael Catholic and Alabama ...
Business Insider

Some fast-food chains are making a quiet change to bills as the penny disappears

The US is slowly bidding farewell to pennies as one-cent production is being phased out. Fast-food chains are making small changes to customers' final bills in the absence of pennies. Chains like ...
New York Post

Burger Kings hoarding pennies and other stores rounding up — as US phases out one-cent coins

Burger Kings are among the many cash-heavy businesses around the US grappling with the phaseout of the penny — with one group of the fast-food joints reportedly hoarding the coins by the box since ...