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Shopkeepers and retailers say five cent coins should be scrapped
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,25354376-462,00.html
背景：
1992年，（澳洲）1Cent，2Cent硬币退出流通
2006年，新西兰取消5Cent硬币
澳洲是否要取消5Cent？
正方：
-在Woolworth里基本找不到一件价格只有5Cent的货品，（除Big W里的一种练习本做年度促销时）
-墨尔本市区停车咪表和自动糖果贩卖机不收5Cent
-通货膨胀
。。。。。。
反方：
-五金商店里还有5Cent的货品（小垫圈，螺丝），5Cent还有用武之地。
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你怎么看？
原文：
IT'S Australia's most shunned shrapnel, the 5c coin - and if shopkeepers and retailers had their way, the echidna-clad currency would be ditched.
They say the coin should go the same way as the near worthless 1c and 2c pieces, phased out in 1992, and the New Zealand 5c coin, dumped in 2006.
Supermarket Woolworths now stocks nothing on its shelves worth 5c, while a register search of Big W products found only one item costing that much - a school exercise book on sale once a year, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.
Melbourne City parking meters do not accept the coins and even sweet seller The Original Lolly Store has abandoned the 5c price tag, with the cheapest lolly at its Melbourne outlet selling for 15c.
Do we need the five cent coin? Have your say below
Deakin University marketing professor David Bednall said the nation could easily adapt to living without the pocket cloggers, which make up $186 million of Australia's hard currency.
Barbara Martin, of Queenscliff's Seaside Lolly Shop, which often sells single lollies by weight for 5c, said the coin was out of date.
"I think it should be discontinued like it is in New Zealand," she said.
"It's just a pain."
Ms Martin said customers would not mind paying in 10c increments.
"Prices will either go up or down by 5c, so it might benefit shoppers sometimes," she said.
"It would all even out."
But Ian Richards, of Martins Paint and Hardware in Richmond where small washers and screws sell for 5c, said the coin still had some worth.
"It would probably be inflationary if you did phase it out," he said.
"There are still things in that price category. The coin is still pretty viable."
He also said the $9.95 pricing technique, to make products seem cheaper, would be forced to change.
The 5c coin was produced for the introduction of decimal currency in 1966.
Though removed from circulation, the Australian 1c and 2c coins remain legal tender.
The only currency to have its legal tender status removed was the Holey Dollar and Dump, recalled in 1822.
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