There are even shortages of coins. At Walmart last week, all the self-checkout machines (which means all but one aisle) were credit or debit card only. I asked a lady why, and she said it's because of the "national coin shortage."

That sounded prety unlikely to me, so when I got home I googled it. And yes, there is a national coin shortage, but they were "working through the logjams," and expected it to be back to normal soon.

I'm not sure why that is, but there are a lot of copper mines up in Alaska and Canada, and they got off to a late start this season because of the coronavirus, so that would be my guess.

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