If the law is slow to change or there are no available pennies, the stores can adjust the prices to match the expected rounding of prices. I can't imagine someone being prosecuted from rounding a penny but it's a quick and easy way to avoid any doubt.

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jjcm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> the stores can adjust the prices to match the expected rounding of prices

Not necessarily. Anything measured by weight will still be subject to this issue.

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varenc 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Anything measured by weight is already rounding prices to the nearest cent. If something is $1/lb and I have 0.995 lbs of it, I get charged $1.00 not 99.5 cents. Presumably just rounding to the nearest 5 cents isn't that different.

Of course we don't expect anyone to be charged fractional cents because our currency doesn't support it. So just changing our smallest currency unit from 1 cent to 5 cents.

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jjcm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> Presumably just rounding to the nearest 5 cents isn't that different

The above context was that rounding to 5 cents might be illegal due to laws regarding SNAP debit prices being different than cash prices.

	▲	varenc 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yea but I guess my thinking is that all totals would just be rounded to the nearest 5 cents, like how they're currently rounded to the nearest 1 cent. So would be the same price whether debit or cash. We already round percentage based taxes to nearest cent, even though it's feasible you could charge someone fractional cents on a debit card. Really state laws just should be amended to include something like "costs must be the same or as close as possible using the currently available denominations of currency"
	▲	mkhalil 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That's why it should be rounded for everything. No pennies should probably mean that any final transaction totals are rounded to the nearest nickel. Whether they pay with cash, credit, debit, snap, gift card, etc... IMO, rounding for cash purchases only sounds worse than keeping the pennies.
	▲	CrazyStat 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Round it for SNAP debit cards too.

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hypeatei 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I can't imagine someone being prosecuted from rounding a penny

Under this executive, I wouldn't be so sure. If a grocery chain starts deviating from the law, then the government can use it against them to further a political agenda like we've seen with Eric Adams for example.

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connicpu 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The easy thing for stores to do then seems to be apply the cash rounding to EBT and card transactions.

	▲	cpfohl 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This seemed so obvious to me…
	▲	tdeck 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Even easier would be to make a gift to Trump's ballroom or buy into one of his many crypto schemes or Truth Social stock.