{"id":1670,"date":"2023-11-16T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:09:52","slug":"local-store-planning-on-phasing-out-take-a-penny-leave-a-penny-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Local store planning on phasing out take-a-penny\/leave-a-penny tray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Capture_Penny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Capture_Penny-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1671\" width=\"407\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Capture_Penny-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Capture_Penny-431x300.jpg 431w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Capture_Penny.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Williams Convenience store in Windsor\u2019s east-end has announced that at the end of 2023 they will be removing their take-a-penny\/leave-a-penny tray that has been a fixture beside the cash-register since 1978.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s time to move on\u201d said store manager Gabe Whitehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Whitehead explained the decision making process behind the removal \u201cNo one seems to be using it any more.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact some of the pennies haven\u2019t been touched in close to five years.\u00a0\u00a0 Two of the pennies are actually stuck to the plastic.\u00a0\u00a0 So I think it is time to retire the tray.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The store manager struggled when attempting to figure out the lack of penny-traffic \u201cI\u2019ve been working here for a long time and I can tell you that the tray got used constantly then suddenly about nine or ten years ago people stopped using it.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m assuming that\u2019s because almost everyone pays with debit cards now.\u00a0\u00a0 That can be the only logical explanation as to why people don\u2019t need an extra penny from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Williams Convenience store in Windsor\u2019s east-end has announced that at the end of 2023 they will be removing their take-a-penny\/leave-a-penny tray that has been a fixture beside the cash-register since 1978.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s time to move on\u201d said &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news","tag-whatsupwindsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}