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In the wake of news that Dunkin Donuts plans to expand into Canada -- and it being -- we decided to put the BTPM office to a blind donut hole taste test between DD and Canadian staple Tim Horton's.
The results were a bit one-sided.
06/05/2026
Take a penny, leave a penny — New York is one step closer to rounding everything to the nearest nickel.
The state Senate gave final approval to a bill late Wednesday that would require stores and merchants in the Empire State to round transaction totals up or down if a customer is paying cash.
The legislation, which will head to Gov. Kathy Hochul for approval, is in response to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision to cease producing the penny late last year. That move has led to a national shortage of the 1-cent coins that cost nearly 3.7 cents to produce.
Assemblymember John McDonald, an Albany-area Democrat who sponsors the bill, said it’s meant to give businesses and consumers direction about what to do in a post-penny world.
“This has been very successful in Canada,” McDonald said when the Assembly passed the bill earlier this year. “It's been very successful in Europe. It really is pretty much a draw.”
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