It was always bullshit
the small organized powerful group of people that run the world, that created this fake pandemic have a checklist of goals, or agendas, eliminating cash is one of them.
so they pushed a fake coin shortage as a secondary goal during a fake pandemic, but people got pissed, little old ladies, who were happy to have socially distant mask sewing parties got pissed three fuck off when Kroger rounded their purchase up to the dollar and kept the change
pushing a sub agenda became a liability in the primary agendas, so they backed off
Local circle k mini mart always rounds my purchase down if they don't want to make change.