Why not use the European system where you have to use a coin to unlock the cart from the stack. People are more likely to return the cart if it costs them money if they don’t and if they still leave the cart out some kid or hobo will return it eventually.

[–] Polyester6435@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My local aldi does this and still when I get there I find like 3 trolleys scattered around the tiny carpark. I can only grab like two max to take with me to the pen.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. For a lot of people a quarter is nothing and worth tossing for the convenience of not being a decent person.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah for me the real value here is where the hell am I going to get another quarter. I use my phone to pay and don’t carry cash.

[–] glomag@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Whenever I go to Aldi (US) there's usually at least a couple carts with quarters left in the parking lot so I just put them back. The quarters pile up in my car until I eventually bring them inside.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Fine, they can subsidize the cart retrieval employee cost.

Also I discussed this with someone in the UK once and they pay an entire pound for a cart… we do quarters because it’s the largest denomination common coin in the US.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

True. Come to think of it, at least with the coin system there is an incentive for another customer to bring the cart back.

On the flip side, where I live people sometimes bring their cart back but don't connect it to the others, so that somebody else can use it without needing a quarter. Those people are nice. :)

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