On The Great Pretend Coin Shortage of 2020/21

Walmart, c'mere a minute.

You appear to be the only retail entity in the universe still participating in the Great Pretend Coin Shortage of 2020/21. We shop at a wide variety of stores, both colossal and mom and pop. Everyone else -- and I mean everyone else -- has coins to pass out as change.

If you want people to provide exact change, or shop with their cards, or whatever, just say so. Don't hide behind a pretend, nonexistent crisis to justify a change in policy.

Also, you appear to be taking in a lot of change from your customers. Are you not recirculating that, or are you storing it in some big Scrooge McDuck-like money bin in Arkansas?

I had a long conversation in my head with the clerk about the stupid coin shortage but only managed to sigh out a "that's fine" to her question of "Since you're a loser and don't have change, do you want to round up and donate to Childrens' whatsis so we can add a corporate tax deduction insult to the no-change-back injury?"

What you're accomplished, Walmart, is shifting the blame from corporate policy or some nonexistent national emergency to the customer.

I don't want to yell at the clerks, because they do not set policy, they merely have to apply it. But if I demand change or refuse to round up for a good cause or make any kind of comment on the policy, it is me being rude.

I understand this might be wise corporate policy and that you may have learned something from the world of politics. But that doesn't make it right.

Signed,

An increasingly dissatisfied customer.