Thursday: Sayonara to the Penny

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are no longer going to have the penny in circulation.
After all, the pinnings that are in circulation get disposed
of in some way. They printed or minted the last
penny this past week in Philadelphia, so I'm fine with that.
I think the penny has been long obsolete, and I'm
not too concerned about things that are obsolete, because I

(00:21):
do want to keep nostalgia around for as long as
nostalgia is somewhat efficient. But there are a couple of
things that are on my pet peeve list of things
that we don't need and that we should do away
with before they become way too much of the norm,
which they already are. And the top two on my
list are cashless establishments and self checkout. I don't want

(00:41):
anything to do with either one.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
What do you have against deficiency, Andy.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, first of all, there are things that somebody might
need to buy that nobody else needs to know, and
that's where cash comes in. But for more than trust me,
I fail you there. But let me tell you this
about your cash. You're not using cash there. The best
way to go broke is to charge everything because I
and I've done this, I've done this before. You go

(01:07):
to the store with one hundred dollars in your hand
and say buy what's on this list. I know it's
gonna cost a hundred bucks. You're gonna come back with change.
And if I give you the credit card and say
go buy this, it's gonna cost a hundred bucks. That
build is gonna be one hundred and thirty every single time.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, I I I don't use cash, but I also
unders like I completely agree with you. There are you know,
there are ways in which you know, the roommate and
I budget based on cash that we end up. I
we never spend the cash, but I like removing it
from the account, yes, and holding it somewhere else to

(01:43):
trick myself. So you know, I would need some sort
of new partition that I couldn't touch. That cash now
currently serves the purpose. The one thing if we're looking
to get rid of, you know, anything, and in this
kind of sector, the thing I would like to see
changed is give me post tax prices on everything, yeah,

(02:08):
final bill exactly, instead of round it up even right,
And that is I think there is you know some
level of uh you know, you're more or you're more
economic uh you know economist friends, would say removing any
form of currency potentially can serve as a rounding tax

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where businesses would you know, now instead of it being
four ninety nine, now it is five dollars and that
does add up over time. But I would just ask,
tell me what the price is of what I'm actually
going to pay, so I don't have to try.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
To do that the post tip price too for your food.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
See, and I've I think there's I think there's a
lot of places that have shown the ability to be
successful by removing tipping as an option and just paying
the servers a good hourly wage, and then it's better
for everybody potentially.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah. Well, but then if the person thinks that they
need to go beyond above and beyond that, they can
you know, yeah, you can always ask that basically, Yeah
you can.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, Ivan, we are still a very throw some cash
at every problem mentality.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, the other thing that aggravates me is you go
to a place, uh and they have seven checkout lanes
that are self checkout and seven people monitoring you checking
yourself out, and half the time the machine malfunctions and
they've got to do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, I will I will give you that nothing drives
me more insane. Well, and also here's a little tip
something I've noticed that again, some people just have it
a little better in life than others. When you go
to the self checkout at h GB, every single item
is weighted, you know, measured weighted, and you can't scan
another one until that one has been recognized on the

(03:56):
scale right there, right, Yeah, go to Central Market, you can.
You can run every single one of your items through
self checkout without any kind of flags being raised, without
any alarms going off. It's a little bit different in
certain parts of the city.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Now, I wouldn't mind having the scanner on the cart,
you know, when you go to the store and scan it,
put it, put it in your own bag, and then
and they've got everything way to the mill millip millions
of an ounce. So we're gonna weigh your cart on
the way up to make sure that your weight should
be what it is, and on you go and these
uh in your heavy travel says and like it's been

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the last few months.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Have you gone into any of these stores where you
just walk in, grab what you want and.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Walk out and you're just a facial recognition the.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Roommate is it's her heavy travel portion of the schedule
as well, and she's been uh introduced to a couple
of those for the first time. I still that that
blows my coat and then can't handle.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
And then people that are willing to be chipped in
order to you just you just put scan your finger
on the cash register. Yeah, I'm not giving.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm not getting chipped. I'm not giving any sort of
adult websites, my driver's license to prove I may. I'm
not doing any of this. I'll figure out another way to.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Live, all right. Texas, Georgia, Aggie, South Carolina, OHU, Alabama.
That discussion next, it's coming up on five fifty six
on the ticket