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Beak's rant of the day: so you want to charge me $1 so I can use a shopping cart to buy shit in your store?

Posted by Beaker 🍻 (aka Anniebecca) May 21 '23, 15:11

sure you get the $1 back after, but that means a hassle getting the cart, then a hassle getting my dollar back?

Fuck. That. I'll just buy what I can carry or go somewhere else.

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I am honestly more surprised that other stores havent tried to do this. -- nm - tRuMaN May 22, 04:28
Aldi's is the only store I'm aware of in my area that does this. The Aldi's quarter is a thing. - TWuG May 21, 16:28 2
- for those people I think it's less "I want my dollar back," and more "I don't want someone else to have that dollar *for nothing!*" -- nm - mafic May 21, 16:33
- right? -- nm - Beaker May 21, 16:28
based on comments everyone else lives in a Hellscape of random shopping carts destroying cars and murdering people while I live in a - Beaker 🍻 May 21, 16:22 1
- Yeah, every single person around here seems to properly return their carts to the corral. I can't remember the last time I saw one just in a space... -- nm - Ender May 21, 22:16
Are there alternatives? -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 15:27 2
- not charging? -- nm - Beaker May 21, 15:29 1
  - It's one of those things that only exist because people suck. But it's not the store taking advantage of you. - Reagen May 21, 15:39
You mean this hasn't been normalized in NB? Out here, Stupidstore has always required a dollar. Other stores sometimes require a quarter. - Beryllium May 21, 15:16 10
- here it's only Aldi. they also have the 'Aldi token keychain' for sale for $4.99. same size as a dollar coin, works in the carts. - mafic May 21, 16:25 5
  - The immobilizers are probably more effective long term. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 16:38 4
    - see we have those and that is fine. but they'll get my $1 out of my cold dead hand -- nm - Beaker May 21, 16:39 3
      - you're supposed to return the cart to the caddies anyway, so it should change almost nothing for you. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 16:45 2
        
        it feels like not buying beer because there's a 10 cent deposit on the cans. -- nm - mafic May 21, 17:12 1
        
        Except collecting that deposit is a huge additional burden... You weren't going to keep track of all your cans and drag them back to the store anyway. -- nm - Ender May 21, 21:56
- It's less common out east. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 15:24 3
  - I guess it's the inverse of the bagged milk thing. We've had coin-op carts for nearly 40 years here. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 15:24 2
    - milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk.... -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 21, 15:34 1
      - …in the bog down in the valley-o. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 21, 15:39
It's so the carts don't get stolen and/or strewn around the parking lot. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 15:15 13
- so that $1 covers the cost of a $500 cart? -- nm - Beaker May 21, 15:19 11
  - if you're stealing carts for profit you'll pay a dollar. if you're stealing carts to be a hooligan you won't. - mafic May 21, 16:24 3
    - fact: Hooligans often carry a stack of one dollar bills - decline May 21, 17:22 2
      - we don't have dollar bills here anymore. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 17:40 1
        
        Wish that were true here. -- nm - TWuG May 21, 17:46
  - and the dealing with people who had their cars smashed by carts in the parking lot and want the store to pay for it. -- nm - Remlik May 21, 16:20
  - It's a deposit that's enough to make sure you'll go back for it. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 15:23
  - Also maybe about the labor $$ to retrieve the carts throughout the day. Cashiers, baggers and cart runners will all be extinct in 5 years -- nm - Flavorize May 21, 15:23 4
    - I better find another job post haste! -- nm - Qale May 21, 16:11 3
      - You do you. But, good Customer service+computer literate+organizational+can write a complete sentence/good writers are all transferable qualities -- (edited) - Flavorize May 21, 17:02 2
        
        Oh no, that’s all true! Very much so. The part about no cashiers in five years is not. If anything they are rolling back a lot of the self service. -- nm - Qale May 21, 18:18
        
        what he said. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 17:33
- yup -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 21, 15:17

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