Comment by close04
7 hours ago
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.
> 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.
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.
> 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.
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> 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.
The easy thing for stores to do then seems to be apply the cash rounding to EBT and card transactions.
This seemed so obvious to me…
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.