mjwalsh
6 bay SS w/laundromat
Laundromats feeling impacts of coin shortage
The pandemic slowdowns have meant shortages in a lot of areas. Even the change that's normally in your pockets is getting hard to find.
Any examples of other Self Serve Car Wash owners being interviewed by some local mainstream press about coin shortage?
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mjwalsh
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Anybody being limited to just reading the much less complete partial transcript on the link would not see & hear nearly as much as the complete TV station's audio-video. Keep in mind when I got the lengthy phone call from the very much respected local news-lady "Emmeline Ivy" (Florida Native) ... I had no idea that she was recording every verbal noun & vowel coming from me & would be used & played back verbatim on as many as 5-6 newscasts some 1 hour long including our West Dakota Fox & the NBC's affiliate's early morning's 2 hour show.
I did not tell Emmeline that I could order "quarters in advance" because it would have not been truthful. Right after the phone call I was at my usual "goto" bank & was told by the "exclusive business only" drive up line teller that she could no longer provide any quarters at all at the moment simply because they themselves have not been able to get QUARTERS since June.
A regular laundry customer gave me "a heads ups" that I was on a newcast which could have been either the 5 or 6 pm cast. So I only found out at about 8:30 PM. I did watch the hour long 9 pm CDT West Dakota Fox & the 2 hour 5 - 7 am KFYR morning show.
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mjwalsh
6 bay SS w/laundromat
Sparkey, Freeman, Randy ... Ohio, Dallas-Ft Worth, & Seattle-Tacoma:
I am glad & cheering for you ... that all of you have as you say "no problem with your local banks etc providing you quarters ... even since June of 2020" That has not been the locals' reality here in Bismarck & yes we did try several of the local banks & credit unions.
Yes ... we did mention we were willing to wait with a pre-order. I will say this that we made sure we were ahead on our supply of dollar coins because of the fact that the coin shortage caused an "all coin & currency" regular delivery from Mpls to be skipped early on about June 15th based on my normal "goto" bank vault person!
Apparently, this was one of possibly many current AP releases because our local newspaper had the same written verbiage:
abcnews.go.com
I am glad & cheering for you ... that all of you have as you say "no problem with your local banks etc providing you quarters ... even since June of 2020" That has not been the locals' reality here in Bismarck & yes we did try several of the local banks & credit unions.
Yes ... we did mention we were willing to wait with a pre-order. I will say this that we made sure we were ahead on our supply of dollar coins because of the fact that the coin shortage caused an "all coin & currency" regular delivery from Mpls to be skipped early on about June 15th based on my normal "goto" bank vault person!
Apparently, this was one of possibly many current AP releases because our local newspaper had the same written verbiage:
Coin shortage hits retailers, laundromats, tooth fairy
A convenience store chain is offering a free beverage or sandwich in exchange for them
