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Casey's General Stores will round cash transactions down to the nearest nickel for customers without exact change.

Other major retailers also are implementing rounding policies for cash payments after the U.S. Treasury ceased minting pennies in November.

Casey's is the latest store to feel the pinch on pennies after the U.S. Treasury stopped minting the coins.

Ankeny-based Casey's General Stores follows the lead of La Crosse, Wisconsin-based convenience store chain Kwik Trip — known as Kwik Star in most of Iowa — which announced in October that it would round cash transactions down to the nearest nickel when customers do not have exact change.

“Due to the national penny shortage, Casey’s stores may be unable to provide exact change," Casey's spokesperson Katie P

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