At The Checkout
Did you know the penny costs more to make than it is worth? Doesn’t make sense does it? You might be surprised to know that ONE PENNY actually costs THREE PENNIES to make. Want to know how you can help? Continue reading for more details.
Leave the penny
You may already do this today. When you see that little dish at the check out and think, “why do I need that penny in the first place? It will just end up in cupholder in my car, in the bottom of a junk drawer or if you are really organized it may be in a coin jar to save up for a fun purchase.” Fun fact. $100 in pennies weighs nearly 55 pounds. Doesn’t sound like much fun hauling those pennies to local coin machine only to find out they want a 10% fee, right? Easy answer… just leave it in the dish like most of us do.
Challenge #2
You are at the checkout counter and you decide to pay in cash. Another fun fact. Only 18% of all transactions are cash. So you have cash but likely not any pennies in your pocket since you left them in the dish or at home to later someday haul 55 pounds of pennies to the coin machine.
Knowing you aren’t carrying around pennies in your pocket or purse you pull out your dollar bills to pay. At this point you could try to do the painful math of using any pennies in the dish to round out your purchase but you give up and hand over your dollars for the purchase. The employee hands you your change and you decide to put your pennies in the dish to save your car, junk drawer and lower back from dealing with those wasteful little coins.
Days later you are still part of the 18% minority still carrying cash around and at the store checkout. At this point this is where the game is going to change (get it change as in pennies). You don’t even consider the coin dish and immediately pay with your dollars and when you receive pennies back you LEAVE THE PENNY in the dish. Tell the employee how it costs three pennies to make each one and tell them to visit our site for more information.
Now doesn’t the feel a whole lot easier than trying to do the math in your head, finding those little copper pennies (now mostly zinc.. story for another time) in a drawer or even worse hauling around 55 pounds of them to try to buy something years from now?
