WATE reports a coin shortage because of the coronavirus induced economic slowdown.

“What’s happened is that, with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy has gotten all — it’s kind of stopped,” Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

Not just here, at Weigel's etc., in Wisconsin Kwik Trip stores are asking customers to use exact change or credit/debit cards. And, apparently it is affecting people more than the great 2015 mulch shortage.