The Solution For Getting Halves And Dollar Coins Circulatin

. My company replaced all of our vending machines with a small mini mart concept that takes credit cards only. No more change needed and the vending company sells more products.

It might not be a "what does it buy" thing, but more of a "what is it worth" thing...but BOTTLE DEPOSITS. The greatest thing ever.

If we need to eliminate denominations, then the cent and dollar note are acceptable, even if I'd hate to loose either. But I would give them up in a heartbeat to save the nickel and dime (unless those nickel deposit states would increase to a dime like good old Michigan). Honestly...if the dime stood a chance of elimination, I'd sell everything I own, first getting the largest loan possible from a bank, and spend every dime of that on an effort to save the dime (unless deposits were raised to a quarter, which I highly doubt would happen).

The nickel and dime do serve a purpose. And there are people whose only source of income is the deposit; as well there are people who supplement their income with the deposit. I just really, really loves me the deposit.

Chill out man, have a little fun with life...

I appreciate that you like different and more types of currency and coins but the practicality for them just isn't there. There is no need for them, people don't want them. There are good reasons why the various defunct denominations, NIFC types and all your fantasy denominations are just that. If people needed half dollars, $2 bills, and the rest they would be made. As it is the general public doesn't want or need them.

BTW, I would like to see the plans for these...:

Oh dear gravy your that customer aren't you. Clearly you have never worked retail that employee was just humoring you to get you to leave so they could go back to their job. They are not going to speak to anyone about it even if them speaking to someone would have even the slightest effect which it will not. Kroger is a corporation they are not going to do anything without it adding some benefit to them. This would either entail the machines that dispense half dollars being cheaper machines or that by adding them they increase traffic to said stores because they have them. Neither is going to happen its likely more expensive to get a machine that carries halves and no one except us collectors carry about halves circulating its a dead circulating coin and has been for 50 years now. Having a machine that dispenses halves has no added value but costs more its never going to happen.

When I worked grocery in college I worked graveyards at 4am every single day I would have several old people come in and buy cigarettes and every single day I would get a tale or lecture about what cigarettes cost in 1962 or 1971 or 1958. I would nod by head and agree with them hoping they would go away so I could get back to my job. And oh dear lord when the cost of cigs went up I couldn't get rid of them for an hour. The cost didn't go up because the store was making more money it went up because taxes went up or the cost from the manufacturer went up. As a store we made a nickel or less on every pack we sold and honestly only carried them as a convenience to the customers I always got the feeling the store would have loved to do away with them completely (I think some of the drugstores are doing that not because they are unhealthy but because they really aren't that profitable to a store and are quite the hassle to carry them). That customer could talk my ear off for an hour it was never going to make a difference to the cost of the cigs they were buying never. Same goes for you harassing that kroger employee they have zero ability to make the change and even if they knew someone who they could talk to who would have that power its never going to happen. They just nodded and agreed with you hoping you would go away as they don't care about halvee just like I didn't care what a pack of winstons cost in 1965.

That was kinda assumed....

n9jig I think we are as cashless as we are going to get at least in my lifetime we may tip a little more to cashless but I don't see us tipping much more over, I just don't see it going anymore cashless because those holding onto cash are going to remain doing so. This may be the young with no bank accounts, those with bad credit, those who don't like the idea of everything being electronic, those without bank accounts or credit cards or illegal aliens (I live in the southwest and the number of Mexican illegal and legal immigrants who don't use banks is very high as is check cashing places for them my city probably has 30-50 of them for a city that doesn't have a 100,000 population), or the elderly that remember a time when most things were done with cash and they still cling to that.

That being said I already think we are a fairly cashless society. I never carry cash personally, you'd be lucky to find me with a dollar on me. And a lot of that has happened in the last 10 years. So trying to reintroduce bygone denominations and coins in society that doesn't want them or really need them isn't going to work. We may see a resurgence of the half if they do away with the cent and the dollar bill (the dollar bill mostly) but getting congress to do something they should have done 15 years ago is a task in it self.

Halves use to be in circulation and used prior to 1964. In 1964 between the Kennedy half being issued for the first time and the last yr. of 90%, many held on to them. The next few years, halves had 40% silver and again held. So, I feel for the most part many just got use to not using and thus, where we are today. I do search halves at times and do put them back in circulation little by little. Some are really happy to see them. Some don't really know what they are until really looking at the coin.

Honestly ......back in the 60s and earlier a dollar, or a half dollar, was a stand alone purchasing unit. Dad would roll up to the gas pump and say "a dollars worth" and got three to four gallons of gas. A hamburger was 15 cents. Pack of cigarettes 35 cents. So here we see a few half dollars would get you through the day. Today, it is an insult to actually call a dollar a dollar. It's place today as a stand alone buying unit is the 20 dollar bill. You spend your 20 and are given back small change. Mostly the change goes unused as it has insignificant buying power and takes time to use.