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shopping rule theory (media.kbin.run)

submitted 10 months ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 37 points 10 months ago

In Europe, you have the incentive of getting a coin back

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

the very fact that they had to install this system tells us all we need to know about humanity.

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nobody did that shit until LIDL introduced the concept. After that, nobody still did it. LIDL are still the only ones who require the sacrifice.

[-] Laser@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

Depends on the country, I guess. There are hardly any supermarkets here in Germany that don't require you to put in money. Mostly small independent ones with small carts. But every chain uses the deposit.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I know a famila which doesn't use deposit carts, and they happen to share a parking lot and cart pool with an Aldi which also don't use deposit, a famila employee does the corralling -- mostly re-distributing carts between isles as people do, in fact, return carts just unevenly so.

I don't really think it's about the deposit, culture-wise, Germans are as likely to understand a deposit as "that's mine now", see Christmas market mugs. It's signalling "please really do return carts it's important we don't want to hire someone to do it and bill you for it that would make our milk 1ct more expensive than the neighbouring store".

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Do you mean Aldi? Aldi does this but none of the Lidls I’ve been to require a coin.

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

LMAO there are no ALDI where I'm at. I suppose that says a lot about eaten Europe.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

No free Litmus test for us, sad.

[-] Aurora_TheFirstLight@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

You can still get the test!! Hear me out if you have two keys you can press the buttons to disengage the locking mechanism as if it were a coin

This way the cart is now coin free, I do this all the time you just need the right key and a bit of practice

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Time to take this forbidden knowledge and leave a bunch of shopping carts in the Aldi parking lot

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

Depends on the store. My local IKEA at least does not require a coin.

[-] hexortor@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Wait this isn't standard practice in the rest of the world???¿???

[-] Fox@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

It is at Aldi (and maybe Lidl?) but uncommon in general in the US

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

Aldi used to do that in the US. Maybe they still do. I never carry coins on me, so for this reason (and the always extremely long lines at checkout) I never shopped there.