Poll of the Day > I returned an Aldi cart from the lot back to the corral to make a free quarter.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I think i could make a living off of this

I grabbed a free cart and when I was returning to my car a lady gave me a quarter in exchange for the cart

I had no idea how the cart chains worked until i got home
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If I get a free cart, I leave the cart for someone else.
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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

If I get a free cart, I leave the cart for someone else.

this
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look at these rich dudes turning down a free quarter
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I'm totally confused, what are you guys talking about? O.o
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Yeah, there's a little mechanism on the cart that unhooks it from the other carts when you put a quarter in it, and then releases the quarter when you hook it back up to the other carts. It allows the store to get away with not needing any cart fetchers since people have to take the carts back themselves if they want their quarter back.
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FuriousFox posted...

Yeah, there's a little mechanism on the cart that unhooks it from the other carts when you put a quarter in it, and then releases the quarter when you hook it back up to the other carts. It allows the store to get away with not needing any cart fetchers since people have to take the carts back themselves if they want their quarter back.

it also helps make the carts not immediately shit, since they aren't getting left in the parking lot, being banged into poles or hit by cars and shit
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What if you don't have a quarter
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Take it to get scrapped then you can make a couple of bucks.

I would never shop anywhere that charges me to use their carts, regardless of the cost.

You get it back at the end.

The point is so they can keep costs low by not having a cart pusher because people are far more willing to put them back to get their 25 cents.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I would never shop anywhere that charges me to use their carts, regardless of the cost.

You get it back when you hook the cart back up. They probably do it to prevent theft. As if a cart isn't worth a quarter.

Or what tc said about the cart pushers that also seems like a good reason.
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Abandoned shopping carts is a real epidemic. There is a book I own about it. The quarter lock and chain keeps them safe.
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I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts
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acesxhigh posted...

. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back?

ohhhhh yeah they are
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acesxhigh posted...

I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts

That's empty surrounded by a little lot littered with carts! Yeah people are extremely lazy here at least.

I shopped at Aldi for the first time ever about a month ago. I didn't know what to do about the cart corral or how to get the shopping cart off the chain and I didn't bring any bags. Inside, some employees were unloading goods from mass transit cardboard totes and people were scrounging for these to carry their groceries in. I left Aldi with an awkward arm load of groceries stacked on top of a case of beer and I'm pretty sure at no point did I successfully look like anything other than a first time Aldi n00b. I am pretty sure at least 3 people saw me disgracefully walking away from the shopping cart corral and they were too embarrassed for me to say anything.
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yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.
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acesxhigh posted...

I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts

They're standard here except they take a dollar coin now. Never a stray cart.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

acesxhigh posted...

I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts

They're standard here except they take a dollar coin now. Never a stray cart.

who the heck has dollar coins
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Greenfox111 posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

acesxhigh posted...

I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts

They're standard here except they take a dollar coin now. Never a stray cart.

who the heck has dollar coins

they're called Loonies
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acesxhigh posted...

Greenfox111 posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

acesxhigh posted...

I haven't seen the quarter lock in ages. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back? Most stores have a parking space designated for a stack of carts

They're standard here except they take a dollar coin now. Never a stray cart.

who the heck has dollar coins

they're called Loonies

Yes and everyone has them here. I don't usually use cash but I do have a few loonies kicking around in my car for coffee or shopping carts
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well there's an easy joke here but i wont say it
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helIy posted...

yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.

Charging for bags is just ridiculous.
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Revelation34 posted...

helIy posted...

yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.

Charging for bags is just ridiculous.

Meh. Somebody had to pay for them. Stuff isn't free. And it would take 10 bags of grocery to even out you a whole dollar...on what would likely be a $200+ bill to fill that many bags. But I guess I can see people thinking they're above paying for things other places give for free. I think it's too encourage people bringing their own reusable bags, in all honesty. Which is a good thing.
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Revelation34 posted...

helIy posted...

yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.

Charging for bags is just ridiculous.

there is a plastic bag tax in my area
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helIy posted...

yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.

Why pay for a bag when I can use a box that they literally leave in a cart in the middle of the floor for people to take (usually), and then just recycle the box when I'm done?

It's a win / win really.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

What if you don't have a quarter

Then you are SoL.
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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

helIy posted...

yeah, at aldi, bags cost 10 cents, but since people are fucking cheap, they just take the boxes.

it's a damn dime, buy a bag. they're decent bags, too. big, thick plastic.

Why pay for a bag when I can use a box that they literally leave in a cart in the middle of the floor for people to take (usually), and then just recycle the box when I'm done?

It's a win / win really.

because boxes are boxes and bags are more convenient to wield
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

there is a plastic bag tax in my area

That's just as moronic.

Zangulus posted...

In my area plastic bags were outlawed a few years ago. To get a paper bag is 10 cents each. We have our own reusable ones. Like 10 for $12. We get such weird looks on the road when we bring our own bags in. Lol

Yeah and I was against that law too. Plastic bags are perfect for cleaning out a litter box.
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luv alldees

SmokeMassTree posted...

What if you don't have a quarter

You have to carry your groceries in your hands while you shop.

Just bring your laundry basket with you.

I remember that from when I was a child. I haven't seen it in a long time.
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Revelation34 posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

there is a plastic bag tax in my area

That's just as moronic.

Zangulus posted...

In my area plastic bags were outlawed a few years ago. To get a paper bag is 10 cents each. We have our own reusable ones. Like 10 for $12. We get such weird looks on the road when we bring our own bags in. Lol

Yeah and I was against that law too. Plastic bags are perfect for cleaning out a litter box.

Yeah, fuck that stupid environment and any small rational steps to preserve it. I need meh cat shitter bags for free man. I ain't got time to learned how the fuck to think of any other method to clean that there contraption.
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Seems like a stupid policy designed to cut down on their labor costs.
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Ryushosen_Zan posted...

Yeah, fuck that stupid environment and any small rational steps to preserve it. I need meh cat shitter bags for free man. I ain't got time to learned how the fuck to think of any other method to clean that there contraption.

Good joke. 10/10.
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americans have aldi? wat
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Greenfox111 posted...

acesxhigh posted...

. Are people really too lazy to put the cart back?

ohhhhh yeah they are

yeah I got pissed sitting in the parking lot of a store waiting once, saw two women approach the same vehicle each with a cart (they where with each other apparently) one was maybe 40s the other looked to be in her 70s. the 70 some year old woman pushed her cart to the corral, and walked back to her car on a cane, the younger woman just shoved it between the parking bumper thing and the handicap parking sign.
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