A Portland tobacco shop owner is absorbing daily losses to give customers correct change as the penny shortage impacts stores and restaurants.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Rafe Hazza, owner of Riverside Tobacco on West Burnside Street in Portland, is feeling the pinch of a national penny shortage. With several of his products priced at amounts that don’t end in zero or five, Hazza regularly needs pennies to make correct change for cash customers — coins that have become increasingly hard to come by.
“We do need pennies,” Hazza said. “Right now, we’ve ran out. The bank doesn’t give us any more pennies.”
The shortage stems
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