We recently penned a piece on a developing nationwide coin shortage sparked by the virus pandemic. As a result of the shortage, at least one major supermarket chain has removed the ability to pay in cash at self-scan checkout machines.
Meijer Inc., a supermarket chain based in the Midwest, with corporate headquarters in Walker, Michigan, announced last Friday, that self-scan checkout machines at 250 supercenters would only accept credit or debit cards, SNAP and EBT cards, and gift cards.
They’re probably all in the fountains. A national coin shortage? @meijer? ????♀️ pic.twitter.com/rzKe68WBqw
— Silvia A. Mansoor (@SilviaMansoor) June 30, 2020
“While we understand this effort may be frustrating to some customers,” spokesman Frank Guglielmi told ABC12 News Team. “It’s necessary to manage the impact of the coin shortage on our stores.”
Fed Chair Powell admitted to lawmakers last week that The Fed has been rationing coins as the circulation of coins across the US economy ground to a halt due to the pandemic.
“What’s happened is that with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy … it’s kind of stopped,” Powell told lawmakers.
He said the shortage was due to the mass business closures that prevented people from spending their coins, as well as a lack of places that are open where people can trade coins for paper bills.
“We’ve been aware of it, we’re working with the Mint to increase supply, we’re working with the reserve banks to get the supply to where it needs to be,” Powell said, adding he expected the problem to be temporary.
Americans Googling “coin shortage” started to erupt in the back half of June and has since hit a record high. Mainly people in Midwest states are searching for the search term.
Google search “coin shortage” shows the issue isn’t limited to Meijer stores but is widespread.
Social media users report the shortage is happening at many big-box retailers.
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Meijer not accepting cash at self check out due to coin shortagehttps://t.co/eHL0nUqAqc
— Long Haired Hippie Rebel ? (@lbox327) June 30, 2020
Coin shortage?
Yeah right…..Ya think there might be something else going on behind the scenes that the media aren’t talking about?? https://t.co/o37H3KmReC pic.twitter.com/z8j8FjtygE
— MajorTom?✈️⚡️????☧ (@MajorTomXRP) June 28, 2020
Coin shortage? Guess we getting our news from @cvspharmacy in 2020 pic.twitter.com/sXdQSQAk7l
— Aaron Soriano (@aaroninbrooklyn) June 26, 2020
My job…. now where in the hell is the coins going? pic.twitter.com/Le8k1ApFeH
— woo. (@i_INTIMIDATE_uu) June 27, 2020
Really? A coin shortage? pic.twitter.com/rsOk2Wg2FF
— Mike ?? (@NYRfan46) June 28, 2020
Is this a sly move to ban cash transactions in favor of credit cards under the guise of a coronavirus-related issue?
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Just one more level of control.
First coins, then cash, gold and silver. Finally lead.
When banks stopped accepting unrolled coins, everybody just kept them in a jar. I’ve got about 30 pounds of loose change in a large jar – I reckon it’s about $300.00 worth. But I’ll be damned if I’ll pay somebody to dump them into a coin counter.
Since then, I just don’t keep coins any more. I use my credit cards.
Kinda like the 2A.
Control bullets/ammo.
Nudge, nudge, nudge.
This whole idea of accepting digital currency reminds me of that scene in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life where Eric Idle plays a waiter(NWO) and says “come with me”(preparing us to the digital $) and he leads us to the house where is was born(the digital currency).
https://youtu.be/mzlCdWwYn2
It just feels like we’re being led down this path and at the end the NWO will tell us to Fuck Off when we don’t accept their new system.
Auntie is, as you well might expect, totally down with it – the Prog gram – to eliminate cash and coin.
I mean how else can the NWO Beast System be rolled out?
Just a wee surprised They used the coin shortage ruse rather than the coinage and notes are filthy- saturated with disease, germs, and death from the Chinese Flu virus (cue horror music) strategy.
Here’s one of my fav’s from the genre…I also find gun and artillery fire over rain soothing. As to the coin shortage ruse, it’s harder to destroy metal than it is to burn paper, gotta start somewhere.
Really excellent selections, M.G…M.
Methinks you and I are the only two commenting here who get it….cheers.
Yes
I have no idea what a meijer is, nor do I care. What I do know is that all FRNs say “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE”. Sounds to me like the same bunch of dickless assholes that don’t understand what “shall not be infringed” means have a similar problem conceptualizing “legal tender for all debts…”. Go to a fucking meiger(whatever THE FUCK that is) and fill yer cart with about $500 worth of whatever shit they sell and pull out 5 Benjamins for the payment. Fuck ’em!