Comment by axiolite
1 day ago
You can also take a wrench with you, to quickly remove the locking wheel from your cart. Maybe replace it with a non-locking wheel from another cart.
Shouldn't be difficult to find carts left near or beyond the edge of the parking lot.
I find the locking wheels annoying, because they're so often defective and make it a noisy struggle to get your cart through the store. But years ago I also had a neighbor in my apartment complex who would walk home with a cart every week, and would just leave (a dozen of) them there... she couldn't be bothered to push the empty carts back to the store, not even once. I'd think a $1 deposit/return system for carts would work better, and give the homeless in the area some gainful employment.
Huh, years ago ago living overseas my sharehouse all did that. But we'd take the trolley straight back to the supermarket because we weren't totally degenerate.
Aldi does it for a quarter and it works pretty well to get people to return them.
Because these physical quarters are way more valuable than $0.25. Where are you getting a new one from if you always pay by card?
> Where are you getting a new one from if you always pay by card?
By hanging around in an Aldi parking lot and offering to return the shopping carts for people.
I'm a smartass that has a little metal paddle which can poke the coin slot and release the cart, but doesn't get retained by the slot.
You know you can just go to the bank and get rolls of quarters.