Yeah, I agree. These people’s entire business model is frying your brain for profit, and then people wonder why everyone is so oversaturated lately. I always wished we could just officially round prices up instead of doing the *.99$ bullshit because no matter where I go, store workers are almost always low on 1 cent coins, and then they have to either hope that the customer has spare cents on them to balance it out or that the customer will just skip getting the 1c change. I worked in a shop for several months once and this was one of the most stressful things at handling money, because not every customer would be fine with it. Some of them would be so petty that they would stand in the middle and scream because “they want their money”, and I would physically have nothing to give them because every single transaction made would just dry out all my small coins. When I was a teenager, my parents had their own shop and I was usually collecting all the stray small coins and give them to my mom to make her work easier. I feel like this “trick” makes everything more complicated for everyone.