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Points 1 and 2: you can get a plastic or metal store-branded token for free from a cashier. Or many of us carry our own token attached to your keychain. No coin

Points 1 and 2: you can get a plastic or metal store-branded token for free from a cashier. Or many of us carry our own token attached to your keychain. No coins needed. Point 3: doesn’t make sense. The carts don’t have coins stored when they aren’t in use by a customer.

jmclnx 3y ago
For # 3 -- Back the, some people would not bother returning the carriage to get their coin. They just left them where their car was and moved on. You saw this was decades ago :) For the plastic tokens, almost no one in the US (at least were I live) would deal with these plastic tokens. I very much doubt that would be accepted. Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. I am sure forcing carriage returns would lose the chain many customers. For it to work, every single chain would have to adopt this at the same time. Not going to work where I am in the US.
- asdaq1312512 3y ago
  > Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. It doesn't mean the system can't work. It means the deposit is way too low.
  - Detrytus 3y ago
    The system does work, if you count the homeless people who would take bottles out of trash and return them, treating it as a steady income source. At least that's how it used to work in my country. Homeless people were recycling even before recycling became cool :)
m-p-3 3y ago
Re: Point 3 that would be cart left with a coin by a careless customer who didn't bother bringing back the cart to have their coin back.
- Detrytus 3y ago
  Even better, sometimes homeless people will simply approach a person who just finished packing their groceries to their car trunk and ask "do you want me to put your cart away?" Of course they will do that only if they can keep the coin :)

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Points 1 and 2: you can get a plastic or metal store-branded token for free from a cashier. Or many of us carry our own token attached to your keychain. No coin

by philshem 3y ago

jmclnx 3y ago
For # 3 -- Back the, some people would not bother returning the carriage to get their coin. They just left them where their car was and moved on. You saw this was decades ago :) For the plastic tokens, almost no one in the US (at least were I live) would deal with these plastic tokens. I very much doubt that would be accepted. Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. I am sure forcing carriage returns would lose the chain many customers. For it to work, every single chain would have to adopt this at the same time. Not going to work where I am in the US.
- asdaq1312512 3y ago
  > Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. It doesn't mean the system can't work. It means the deposit is way too low.
  - Detrytus 3y ago
    The system does work, if you count the homeless people who would take bottles out of trash and return them, treating it as a steady income source. At least that's how it used to work in my country. Homeless people were recycling even before recycling became cool :)
m-p-3 3y ago
Re: Point 3 that would be cart left with a coin by a careless customer who didn't bother bringing back the cart to have their coin back.
- Detrytus 3y ago
  Even better, sometimes homeless people will simply approach a person who just finished packing their groceries to their car trunk and ask "do you want me to put your cart away?" Of course they will do that only if they can keep the coin :)