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Since they stopped minting pennies, every thing I have bought recently that previously didn't ended with 1-4 was dropped to a 0. I hella thought they'd be rounding up to a 5 even for a 1.
Some states have laws that don't allow them to round up. Something to do with charging more for cash versus card purchases or cash versus benefits (like EBT). Some places are doing the sensible thing and rounding up/down more fairly regardless of the law, with the assumption that no one will call them on it. (A lawsuit costing more than the pennies are worth.)
Congress has had a bill just sitting around since April to make the rounding fair... But even on things everyone basically agrees with they still can't do anything.
so many stupid issues in the US due to this half-assed federal system
I agree, but any system where the primary "do something" branch just does nothing is going to have problems eventually.
In Finland we chose to not use the 1c and 2c cents when we joined EMU, and you can't buy shit with those in Finland, even though we use Euros. Probably could go to a bank and exchange a bunch, but anyways.
We do have 5c coins, that's the smallest denomination (and kinda futile tbh). Everything that cost 0.01 0.02c gets rounded down, 0.03 and 0.04 gets rounded up to 0.05 and 0.06 and 0.07 goes down to 5c and 0.08 and 0.09 goes up
except when you pay with a card. So for instance if you always made sure to make sure the gas pump stops at a 2 or a 7, when paying with cash or if its 0.08 or 0.09 you pay with card and you might save at least a few euros over a lifetime.
Stores would have to accept them as they're legal tender even in Finland. Maybe I'll go annoy your retailers and bring a bag of 1c and 2c pieces if I ever visit and pay some portion of the price with them.
Hell, I'm already somewhat prepared. Just you wait!
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No, they don't, and they never have. Yeah at one point "the most common ways of paying", had to be available. Before 2001, it meant marks and debit card and some credit cards.
2007 or so forwards it mostly meant Electron as well. Now it's pretty much solely cards.
We are in the EMU, but 1c and 2c eurocoins aren't considered legal tender in that way in Finland. You will not find a single business who would accept your coins. Not in the past 25 years and especially now when stores aren't even required to take cash, much less literally all denominations of euros.
Hell, there's limits to paying with cash in most stores. Upper limits. But there's always been a lower limit. But that also meant that for a while in 2002 and so forth before the policies caught up, you could get pick and mix candy for 2c (you'd get like... one, maybe two of some light one) and then just going through the till and watching the bored of life 20-something be slightly amused and not protest.
Didn't take too long before they made a minimum 5c or something.
They're legal tender in Finland because they are legal tender in the EU. I don't know anything about Finish law but I believe permitting stores to refuse some coins while allowing others could violate some EU directive.
Finland is even forced by the EU to mint 1c and 2c coins (though the amount isn't specified so they're just collector's editions) despite not circulating them.
And Wikipedia says (without citation though):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_euro_coins
You believe wrong.
Sweden is a EU country. Want to try go with your Euros there? Is it not legal tender?
EMU =/= EU and EMU the regulations are made don't alway fit all an exceptions are made.
I got my hands on euros in late 01, before you could actually even pay for things with them. And I've been a cashier in several jobs since.
They're are not legal tender in Finland, except perhaps with the exception of possibly the national bank being forced to take them. (As it was to take Finnish marks for a decade after they went out of circulation.)
We have to have a design and they happen to mint them because rarity makes profit, but as you say, not circulated.
They will always decline. "Swedish rounding"? Swedes use kronor. So that's probably just a term for the thing I explained.. How 1 and 2 round doen 3 4 to 5 and 6 7 to five and 8 9 to 10.
There most certainly is not a law demanding anyone to take 1c or 2c coins. I can bet my left testicle on that, I've played with customer service and taking money my whole life and half my family has as well.
Just not true.