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Comment by jjcm

4 hours ago

> 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  4 hours ago

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.

  • jjcm  3 hours ago

    > 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  2 hours ago

      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"