Is it common sense to ...

[NYCgrrl]

guess that is a U.S. mindset triggered by our refusal to use any 50 cent or $1 dollar coins.

Did the US stop minting $1.00 coins?

 

[tvguy]

Did the US stop minting $1.00 coins?

Best I can tell, no. Our lunch room vending machines at work took them (as of 3 years ago). They are most commonly used at laundamats and of course casinos. Just not commonly used in other forms of commerce. Walmart went big with the Sacagawea dollars for a while, only giving them, not paper bills as change. But Walmart learned what the U.S. Treasury learned, Americans just don't like half dollar, and dollar coins, and $2 paper bills. Over on the Cruise Line Forum one of the standard recommendations for cash for tips on board was getting $2 paper bills. I went to the bank to get some and the 20ish teller looked at me like I was crazy. Saying "there are no $2 bills". She called a manager over, who informed both of us that , yes, there ARE $2 bills, they just don't keep them on hand. But she asked how many I wanted, and she said she could order them and have them the next day.

 

[NYCgrrl]

They are most commonly used at laundamats and of course casinos.

Probably used in casinos on this end as well. Most laundromats have gone digital on this area but mass transit still accepts and gives change in dollar coins. Not sure how much longer though since a new transit card is being phased in while the unionized token collectors are phased out.

 

[tvguy]

Probably used in casinos on this end as well. Most laundromats have gone digital on this area but mass transit still accepts and gives change in dollar coins. Not sure how much longer though since a new transit card is being phased in while the unionized token collectors are phased out.

I had to wash my car cover at a laundromat and they were cash or card. But I wonder if laundromats can in the foreseeable even consider going all digital. My sense is a large chunk of their customers are "unbanked" and have no digital payment option.
A friend is office manager for a family that own several hundred apartments, and almost half pay at least part of their rent in cash, often because they have no bank accounts or credit cards. Which is why the laundry rooms in all their complexes are still cash only. Not worth the expense to upgrade to equipment that takes digital payments.

 

[_19disnA]

I haven't seen any casino recently that takes any types of coins (Vegas as well as other locations). They all have bill acceptors that take paper money. They print a bar coded paper ticket when you want to cash out. Slot machines stopped dispensing coins when they switched over to those bill acceptors and bar coded tickets perhaps 10 yrs ago? Maybe at some tiny local casino they might not have switched over, not familiar with any of those.

Was just at a car wash place last week and they also had a bill acceptor as the method of payment.

The dollar coin never caught on with consumers since it is too similar in size to the quarter. Most people also don't want to lug around a bunch of heavy coins when making a purchase. No idea if they still mint them. Probably can look at the govt website to see the latest about that.

 

[citruscurtis]

Well... the Oregon Goodwill CEO is worth their pay . They have created a BINS system that has provided 100s if not 1,000s of folks to earn an income by digging thru donated items that go directly to the bins and not retail ... the bins also provide a hazard recycle concept unlike any other in Oregon ... Goodwill is unmatched community service when it comes to helping people working on opportunities to find employment...all the other thrifts on the I-5 corridor are failing because volunteerism isn't working anymore

 

[LuvOrlando]

FWIW when I worked at MaxRave (no longer exists) the company policy was your drawer could not be under or over $5. If it was you were put on a specific list that corporate keeps track of. Every time you stopped your cashiering duties for the shift your drawer was counted.

I'm sure that company was in the minority but just realize you don't know what a store's policy is and "keep the change" isn't unilaterally treated as a positive or even useful thing (coins aren't nearly as prevalent as they once were anyhow).

I always assumed the cashier was smart enough to put it to the side and not in the drawer. I honestly do not know what to say about a cashier that wouldn't know how to handle this, when I was a cashier it didn't throw me to have a few pennies, nickels and dimes to the side in a "give a penny get a penny" sort of way . I'm going to keep doing it and assume if it is ever a problem the cashier would say no thanks

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I always assumed the cashier was smart enough to put it to the side and not in the drawer. I honestly do not know what to say about a cashier that wouldn't know how to handle this, when I was a cashier it didn't throw me to have a few pennies, nickels and dimes to the side in a "give a penny get a penny" sort of way . I'm going to keep doing it and assume if it is ever a problem the cashier would say no thanks

Nothing abut being "smart enough". Interesting that in your comment you come at it from an angle like the cashier is the one who doesn't know what to do when my entire comment was telling you about a corporate policy. There's an interesting perspective when a person thinks automatically that the worker on the other side is incompetent...

What do you think happens to coins? We would put them aside, not in the drawer, to be used for customers but there was almost always left over change at some point and it was under the cashier (back then cameras weren't as common nowadays cameras are EVERYWHERE) that it would be for their responsibility. The company's perspective, and mind you I was giving an example and said they were probably in the minority, was you were either giving too little change or giving too much change both of which came up under accountability.

You think in your mind you're just one person doing something but you aren't thinking about other people who do it. Rarely did the coins all get used up think about it pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars and the cost of items it's not a perfect match here.

I'm just trying to say don't assume you're being super generous here, you don't know the company policy and these days? Coins are normally more hassle to the retail business.

Sure you do you

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I haven't seen any casino recently that takes any types of coins (Vegas as well as other locations). They all have bill acceptors that take paper money. They print a bar coded paper ticket when you want to cash out. Slot machines stopped dispensing coins when they switched over to those bill acceptors and bar coded tickets perhaps 10 yrs ago? Maybe at some tiny local casino they might not have switched over, not familiar with any of those.

What Vegas did during the pandemic when the coin shortage occurred was those machines that dispense your winnings (with some also being ATMs) stopped giving coins out and you needed to visit the cashier. When the coin shortage got largely fixed Vegas didn't go back to dispensing coins. Right now if you don't visit the cashier the amount that would be in coins is forfeited as only paper cash is dispensed out.

For me personally I would go to the cashier because the coins add up over time, even a small amount could pay for a tip or another whirl at it on a low cost machine. However, based on all the paper littered around the floor and trash and around the machines (some people put the slip on the machine itself just leaving it there) there's quite a lot of people that are not getting their coins.

 

[neverlandsky]

Use to. Then it became everywhere along with tipping. When asked to round up I always reply “Not Today”.

 

[_19disnA]

Not sure what casinos some others visit in Vegas, but we were just there a couple of months ago. The bar coded paper tickets get cashed out at any of the kiosks located around the casino. Some allow you the option to donate the coins to charity or if not, they just dispense them to you along with the paper bills.

Casinos switching to bill acceptors allowed for those 'penny slots' that many have. The reality is no one is going to carry around a huge bag of pennies and then spend all that time putting them into a machine. Even when they used to have nickel slots, it was a pain to wait for an employee to come around to refill the coin hopper when it ran out. Always thought the move to paper tickets was a huge improvement regardless of exactly why it was done.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Not sure what casinos some others visit in Vegas, but we were just there a couple of months ago. The bar coded paper tickets get cashed out at any of the kiosks located around the casino. Some allow you the option to donate the coins to charity or if not, they just dispense them to you along with the paper bills.

Casinos switching to bill acceptors allowed for those 'penny slots' that many have. The reality is no one is going to carry around a huge bag of pennies and then spend all that time putting them into a machine. Even when they used to have nickel slots, it was a pain to wait for an employee to come around to refill the coin hopper when it ran out. Always thought the move to paper tickets was a huge improvement regardless of exactly why it was done.

The ones on the Strip hadn't gone back when we were last there, if they have then it's a newer adjustment. You cashed out at the kiosks but let's say your ticket was for $5.25 it would dispense $5 but not the $0.25. It would print off a ticket for the $0.25 to which we would then take to the cashier. Many people opted to not go to the cashier for the change portion

 

[SteveH]

Well... the Oregon Goodwill CEO is worth their pay .

Please take another look. They are paying 2 people over $1.5 million in combined salary/benefits. The CEO Emeritus title means that person has retired, yet is making more then the current leader. Look at the CEO in Seattle and their budget, sorry Portland continues to be way out of line - though not as bad as the CEO for the the International position. As I said, Goodwill does good, but I'd have to question thier charity status, and I sure wouldn't be rounding up to support them.

 

[cabanafrau]

Agreed and no reason to give the company a tax deduction based on my funds.

Bingo! No one ever calls it out, drives me bonkers.