A lack of pennies has Oregon store owners asking the state to allow them to round prices to the nearest nickel

Ever since the U.S. government stopped producing pennies last year, convenience store owner Hammad Warraich has struggled to make change.

He was even threatened with a lawsuit from a customer who bought a 99-cent item at his Milwaukie store, River Road Mart, when he couldn’t make the proper change.

“I’m like, ‘Bro, I don’t have pennies. It’s really hard to get them,’” he recalled…

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