Current Events > TIL you can just ask Aldi's employees for a quarter to use their shopping carts.

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https://lifehacker.com/the-only-aldi-quarter-hack-youll-ever-need-1850162914

Aldis coin-hungry shopping carts are iconic. Frequent shoppers often have a designated Aldi quarter in their car or in a special pocket, because the store requires a quarter to release each cart from the corral. (You get the quarter back when you return the cart.) So what happens if you show up and dont have a quarter for the cart? The internet is full of Aldi quarter hacks, which often involve jamming other objects like keys into the quarter slot. But if youre unlucky, the object may get stuck. Even if everything goes according to plan, theres also the fact that carts get swapped at the register. If you have to unload all your groceries from one cart into another because your car keys are in the wrong cart now, youll just slow down the line and annoy everybody around you. The reason for the quarter, Aldi explains on their website, is just to get people to return their frickin carts. The carts are chained together when theyre in the corral. Pop a quarter in to release the lock, and it pops back out when you re-attach the chain upon returning it. As a result, people return the cart to get their quarter back, and Aldi doesnt have to designate an employee to rounding up carts.

So if you dont have a quarter, how do you get a cart without one? It turns out thats the wrong question to ask: You can get a free quarter for the cart if youdrumroll, pleaseask. Everywhere online where people share their quarter hacks or complain about losing their quarter, employees pipe up to say store policy allows them to give out free quartersup to five dollars worth per shift, according to one.

I never thought of it since I always have a quarter.

Keeping a designated cart quarter in the cup holder or glove compartment is the easiest thing in the world to do.

But that's cool that they're willing to do that.

Ask for a quarter from every employee every day at Aldis = free money

Damn_Underscore posted...

Ask for a quarter from every employee every day at Aldis = free money

If you invest the first day's earnings into disguises you can double or even triple your income.

Here's a hack from an Aldi employee. You can stick the metal end of a binder clip into the coin slot to release a cart for free.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/1/AAF0JHAAEOpH.jpg

Accolon posted...

Here's a hack from an Aldi employee. You can stick the metal end of a binder clip into the coin slot to release a cart for free.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/1/AAF0JHAAEOpH.jpg

But it's always free, you get the quarter back

There's always some lazy ass who leaves the cart in the parking lot anyway.