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Virtually all grocery stores in Finland works with this principle. Coin for a cart. It works remarkably well, people want their coins back.
by Maxion 7y ago
Virtually all grocery stores in Finland works with this principle. Coin for a cart. It works remarkably well, people want their coins back.
- seszett 7y agoIt's a whole euro though, so maybe it's high enough that it has more effect than a quarter dollar. Though not all stores have a deposit for carts, Colruyt in Belgium doesn't for example, and I don't see carts lying around.
- blotter_paper 7y agoI've seen it work! If I hadn't, I might question it. My comment wasn't wondering whether there are more carts left in the parking lot of an Aldi or a Price Cutter, it was wondering if more carts get taken off property entirely and used for other purposes. If that's your goal, a quarter is pretty negligible. Years ago I worked at motel near an Aldi and a WalMart, and saw a good number of both companies' carts left in the parking lot. More WalMart carts, for sure, but they also get more traffic. I used Price Cutter as an example instead of WalMart because I think some people have a special hatred for that particular company that might make stealing from a WalMart easier to rationalise for other reasons (I'm not making a value judgement about that, just stating it as something I've anecdotally observed). Efit: s/anf/and