Two cases of Celliers du Dauphin, a good week's supply.

I feel I've let everybody down by not bulk-buying wine We did buy a couple of bottles of Fernet-Brance (vile Italian digestif, tastes foul but knocks the billy-ho out of your stomach if you've got food poisoning). We don't often drink wine, doctors are always surprised at our medicals when they ask "how much wine do you drink" and we say about one or two glasses a month!!! Just not to our taste, I much prefer tonic water. (the real reason might be that I get p*ssed surprisingly quickly!)

Ireland has decided to phase the 1 and 2c coins out entirely, by rounding up or down.
Cents and sensibility – why Ireland has given up on small change | World news | The Guardian
Somehow I can't see that catching on in France

Neither can I. Baguettes, to name but one regular purchase, always go up by a couple of centimes each time, and we'll always need these small coins

Canada did that a couple of years ago so that the smallest value coin in circulation is now 5c. Nonetheless retailers have persisted in pricing items at e.g. $5.99.

Nowt so queer as folk.

Now I don't know if this is true Novo, but I have always understood that pricing items at 1 or 2 c less than a dollar or euro round number meant that shop assistants had to open the till because they had to actually give change.
I think that was in the days of manual tills, and I would have thought that in these days of computerised stock control, it was less easy to defraud the shopkeeper. Mind you our local supermarkets do their inventory using pencil and paper!

Somewhere I went, either Belgium or the Netherlands, can't remember now, just didn't bother with the tiddler coins. The first few times I was given my change in supermarkets without the tiddlers I thought they were ripping me off. Then it occurred to me that sometimes it was to my advantage, if something cost 9,05€ and I gave them a ten euro note I got a euro back. Once I realised I wasn't being ripped off it seemed an excellent way to do things. Though of course it begs the question, why don't they level off the prices on the items if that's what they're going to do?

There are quite a few countries in Asia which do this too, probably because their currency units are very low in value. In a supermarket you see the rounding printed at the bottom of the till receipt.

Rounding the price of individual items could see some large price fluctuations however.

I tried to get shot of mine by feeding a handful into one of those road toll booth automatic cash machines.

Obviously it felt insulted and promptly spit it all back out again.