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Carts are free at Aldi too. You just put a coin in to release a cart, and when you return your cart, you get your coin back.
by osrec 7y ago
Carts are free at Aldi too. You just put a coin in to release a cart, and when you return your cart, you get your coin back.
- Cyph0n 7y agoThey aren’t free if you don’t have a quarter on hand.
- osrec 7y agoWell they aren't really for sale or rent either. Not sure what your point is?
- bunderbunder 7y agoMaybe not intentionally, but it was a pretty good pun.
- osrec 7y agoPun? I missed it - ELI5 please!
- bunderbunder 7y agoIt takes a quarter to free one from its chain.
- bunderbunder 7y agoOK, I'm genuinely curious, why the downvotes? Did I accidentally invoke some sensitive imagery?
- osrec 7y agoNot sure, but perhaps because it's not actually a pun?! At least I still don't get it.
- bunderbunder 7y agoFree as in beer vs free as in speech.
- jvagner 7y agoI never, ever carry change.
- zaarn 7y agoIn germany, paying with hard cash is still very common, having some change is basically the norm (you can also use plastic tokens instead of real coins, you can get those for free from a lot of places here, including the shop themselves, either as promotion or if you ask)
- deathanatos 7y agoIf you visit Aldi at all regularly, you just keep a quarter in the car's change drawer.
- zhte415 7y agoWhy not? Cash is divisible, readily accepted, and anonymous.
- madeofpalk 7y agoToday for the first time in two months I went to a retailer that was cash only. I haven't carried my wallet with me for two months - I just leave it at home and use Apple Pay for literally everything, including public transport. But then, I also don't shop at Aldi or need a trolley.
- Larrikin 7y agoCredit card fees are included in every purchase. I typically end up with 20 to 100 bucks every month. If I use that for travel I get even more. Twenty dollars in cash tends to last me an entire month.
- jvagner 7y agoAnd needs to be acquired and carried. I don’t like coins, the weight and noise of them. I also don’t carry things in my pockets. The fees associated with debit card transactions don’t land on me, so...
- Someone 7y agoYou don’t need a quarter, just something quarter-sized. Google “shopping cart coin keychain” for examples.
- osrec 7y agoQuite right; my family has a few plastic "coins" that work just as well. Here in the UK, shopping carts used to take a £1 coin, which incidentally had very similar geometry to the Indian 5 rupee coin (worth about 5 pence) - that was a great little find for our family, who always had a few 5 rupee coins lying around from our time visiting family in India. Sadly they updated the design of the £1 coin, so this trick no longer works.
- Doxin 7y agoJust about any store around here that uses the coin system also hands out free "cart coins" if you ask the service desk.