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> a quarter to get a cart, 4-6 isles, no in car delivery, you have to bag your stuff yourself. Europe.
by B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago
> a quarter to get a cart, 4-6 isles, no in car delivery, you have to bag your stuff yourself.
Europe.
- briandear 7y agoExcept in France it’s a Euro to get a cart and you can definitely get car delivery. Most of the Carrefour/Super U type stores do that. And many of their stores are at least as big as a US store. Seems like both cultures are converging.
- sokoloff 7y agoI could have sworn I remembered the Euro thing was just a deposit, returned when the cart was cart was returned. Is that not the case?
- Tehnix 7y agoIt definitely is! You can also get these coin thingies you can have on your keychain for it. You push it in to push out the link to the other carts, and have to put the lock back in to recover the coin.
- wvh 7y agoYes; it just a psychological trick to stop people abandoning their carts in random locations or perhaps even in the middle of the parking lot.
- wongarsu 7y agoAlso in the rare case that a cart is abandoned someone will quickly bring it back or use it themselves. The person abandoning the cart basically pays the finder
- convivialdingo 7y agoAt my Aldis some of the more industrious folks will happily return your cart for you to get the quarter.
- stkdump 7y agoI remember people used to do this in Germany when I was a kid ~20 years ago at bigger shops. They would walk up to people loading their cars and ask if they can return the cart for them. I always perceived it as a form of begging. Nowadays I don't see it anymore.
- cagataygurturk 7y agoIn Berlin there are still people doing this.
- b3orn 7y agoIt is the case.
- rolleiflex 7y agoCarrefour / Migros et al are definitely mid-level though, they’re not competing with Aldi on prices.
- naves 7y agoEurope indeed. No AI/ML taking over jobs. The customer took those jobs away more than a lustrum ago.
- wvh 7y agoI think I just started to understand why the US has such a low unemployment rate but so many are paid minimal wage...
- yardie 7y agoThe US is the epitome of bullshit, bureaucratic jobs. Medical billing, for example, is someone taking the list of procedures a medical office performs and plugs that into a computer so that the "codes" the office uses can match the "codes" the healthcare provider uses. I know what you're thinking, that describes a LUT (lookup table). Yes, you would be correct, a LUT is an actual profession in the USA.
- convivialdingo 7y agoEven more crazy is that the reason these jobs persist is so that hospitals can maximize the profit and the likelihood of being covered by insurance.
- rayiner 7y agoI’ve never encountered an example of a real “bullshit job” (but have encountered a lot of ignorance about what different jobs entail.) Dealing with medical billing codes is not just a table lookup. It’s actually quite fuzzy and some judgment is required because the codes don’t match 1:1. (Not does the procedure the doctor actually did match perfectly to any code.) (And you can be criminally prosecuted for not doing it correctly if you’re talking about Medicare or Medicaid.) Grocery bagging, likewise, is hardly a bullshit job. I shop at whole foods precisely so I don’t have to bag my own groceries. (And a good bagger can do it far better than I can.)
- maxerickson 7y agoHow do you evaluate the quality of the bagging if you don't know how to do a good job? Are they just faster?
- macintux 7y ago
- flingo 7y agoIn europe, it's 1 or 2 euro. (both work) You get it back when you return the trolley though.
- asveikau 7y agoIt is funny how a person's geography can shape what the view of a normal life is. I read that thinking, "In-car delivery? What the hell?" But the comment indicates matter of factly that rich people will find the lack of this to be like shopping at Salvation Army.