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Except 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
by briandear 7y ago
Except 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.