US Treasury Ordered To Stop Producing New Cents

Wow this is an entertaining thread. It took me most of the day to read all of it. I agree with most of the statements made.

I just have one question for the Canada folks:
When Canada stopped making cents in 2012, did businesses change the pricing to round to 5 cents (like 99 cents to 1 dollar), or did the posted charges stay the same? Were individual items rounded or just the total price (including tax)?

So basically, dropping production of the one cent coin should be a done deal. At least as far as circulation mintage goes. Will it happen? I hope so. It seems that other countries had no effect on listed prices.

In Israel in the early 2000s, a few years after the discontinuation of the 1 agora (0.01 shekel) coin, approximately all the prices ended in .99, and totals were rounded to the nearest 0.05 at the register (at least for cash transactions, but AFAIK noncash was still mostly an exception in those days).

In modern Israel, the lowest coin is 10 agorot (0.10 shekel), and most prices end in .90 (though .00 is also common, and sufficiently cheap items can be all over the place), but there are a few officially-regulated prices that end in random numbers (e.g. 7.07 for a liter of milk), and of course if the price is per kilogram it can become any number after multiplying by the actual weight.
At the end the prices are indeed rounded (usually to the nearest 10 agorot, sometimes to the next lowest 10 agorot, treatment of values ending in 5 varies by store), and indeed only for cash transactions (though at a few places with sufficiently nonautomated cash registers I've seen the sums rounded before being entered into the card receiver).