Michigan Grocery Chain Now Asking for Exact Change for Cash

A large grocery chain in Michigan might be making it more difficult to shop their stores if you use cash for your groceries.

We all have heard that the penny is being phased out. It is more expensive to produce a penny than it is worth, so the U.S. Treasury's decided to phase out penny production.  After all, the cost of producing a penny is more than three cents. Doesn't that  makes "sense?"

Since we are losing the penny, it is affecting retailers, and Kroger, with stores throughout Michigan, has decided to ask customers to use exact change if paying by cash. Yes, there still are people that use cash at the grocery store, not a debit or credit card.

We do not have a Kroger store in Grand Rapids and West Michigan any more, but they are all over central and South East Michigan.

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Officially, Kroger issued this statement, according to MSN.com.

"We continue to assess the impact of the U.S. Treasury’s decision to end penny production. If using cash for payment, we kindly ask customers to consider providing exact change. Kroger will continue to accept pennies for payment."

As of now, there doesn't seem to be any word if Meijer or Spartan-Nash, for example, will follow Kroger's announcement.

Do you use cash when shopping? We all do, occasionally, but truthfully, very infrequently. I'm sure none of us will have exact change. And if the "big guys" are doing it, it may not be long before small businesses do the same thing.

Geeze! If I want to use cash for something I may have to begin carrying the good old coin changer.