Around here (Germany, Hamburg, inner city and western outskirts, have no other recent experience) it's often unnecessary, since the chainlocks are mostly 'crack

Around here (Germany, Hamburg, inner city and western outskirts, have no other recent experience) it's often unnecessary, since the chainlocks are mostly 'cracked', broken nowadays. Just grab one. They lock up anyways, if you try to move them off of the premises via some mechanism embedded in a bulge above one frontwheel, triggerd by induction wires embedded in the ground of the parking space. Regardless of Aldi, Lidl, Edeka, Rewe, Penny, Netto, whomever...