A sign posted in a Needlers grocery store in downtown Indianapolis asks customers to pay by card or with exact change, citing a penny shortage spurred by the end of penny production, on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Indiana lawmakers are crafting statewide penny-rounding policies as Hoosier retailers struggle through a nationwide shortage of the discontinued coin — but admit it needs more work. State revenues could also suffer.
Merchants large and small are rounding to the nearest nickel or down in favor of customers. Some are rounding the total transaction and others the change owed…