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>>17397049

>>17371414
I could never figure out how these cart locks work.

>>17342746
At Aldi, it's just a quarter (in USA). You get your coin back when you return your cart. The system doesn't deter people from shopping there, and the store doesn't have to employ dedicated cart-wranglers.

>>16867026

Can someone explain how to use these shopping carts?

>>16787955

You insert a coin (quarter in USA) to unlock. Then when you return your cart, you push the chain from the next cart into the other side of the lock, which pops your precious coin out.

The idea is that unlike other grocery stores, where sociopaths abandon their carts in the parking lot, at Aldi they'll be motivated to return them, and thus Aldi does not need to employ cart wranglers. Part of the Aldi philosophy is running stores with minimal staff.

But in our area, they stopped using the locks during the lockdown. Instead the carts were distributed by one or two employees standing by outside, also responsible for sanitizing--and presumably also retrieving carts left out by the aforementioned sociopaths.

Remember, cart-abandoners are subhumans and will be first against the wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzMNLQs3Fc

>>16755983

Still haven't figured out how to use these carts. Can someone help?

>>16517261