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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- tonicboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe they should make them with a hole in the middle to save material, like some countries. Although I suppose that may change their magnetic properties, which would be a disaster for vending machines and other coin-operated machines.
Well, you could always just take both coins out of production completely. There's no reason why we couldn't do just fine without a penny or nickel. I mean, what are they good for anyway? They just take up useless space in your pocket. - rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They basically have done this in some areas. In Germany on the military bases, they simply do not use pennies (at least in the 80s they didn't). The prices on everything is still normal and priced to the penny (ie. $4.99), but when you pay in cash, they simply round to the nearest 5 cents. If you pay via credit card, you pay the exact amount of course, the rounding is only done to remove the actual physical penny from circulation.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i totally agree. who cares about one whole cent.
but then again, i'm sure it can add up. what if gas had to be rounded to the nearest multiple of 10 cents, etc. i dont think its as much of a problem to get rid of the low-value coins as it is to deal with the effect it might have on the economy.
this is all the more reason to work on a secure standard electronic currency structure. - JibberJabber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried???
- JibberJabber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't they make enough profit manufacturing paper currency?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If I took $1 million worth of pennies, melted them down, and sold them, I'd make $230,000 profit. Awesome. The only trick would be not getting caught defacing federal property.
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