These two are the backbone of society.

wholesome

Passed the "good person" test

Double dating with a couple of carts.

In Germany, shopping trolleys are always equipped with a so-called deposit lock. This means that the shopping carts are linked to the shopping carts in front of them by the lock. To release the lock you need a 50 cent, 1€ or 2€ coin. To get them back you have to bring the shopping cart back and chain it back on. Some companies and shops even give away small printed tokens for shopping trolleys, made of plastic or tin, which can be attached to a bunch of keys as promotional gifts. The German food discount chain Aldi also does this in its American branches.

yuki_foxsoul said:
In Germany, shopping trolleys are always equipped with a so-called deposit lock. This means that the shopping carts are linked to the shopping carts in front of them by the lock. To release the lock you need a 50 cent, 1€ or 2€ coin. To get them back you have to bring the shopping cart back and chain it back on. Some companies and shops even give away small printed tokens for shopping trolleys, made of plastic or tin, which can be attached to a bunch of keys as promotional gifts. The German food discount chain Aldi also does this in its American branches.

This is such a good idea, wish they did this in America.

senko-san21 said:
This is such a good idea, wish they did this in America.

They used to have it some areas of the South when I was a kid, but large scale vandalism of the locking mechanisms made it more hassle than it was worth and now only Aldi bothers with it still.

yuki_foxsoul said:
In Germany, shopping trolleys are always equipped with a so-called deposit lock. This means that the shopping carts are linked to the shopping carts in front of them by the lock. To release the lock you need a 50 cent, 1€ or 2€ coin. To get them back you have to bring the shopping cart back and chain it back on. Some companies and shops even give away small printed tokens for shopping trolleys, made of plastic or tin, which can be attached to a bunch of keys as promotional gifts. The German food discount chain Aldi also does this in its American branches.

They did the same in France, but now everyone has a shitload of printed tokens which aren't valuable at all, so this is just an annoying useless security now

yuki_foxsoul said:
In Germany, shopping trolleys are always equipped with a so-called deposit lock. This means that the shopping carts are linked to the shopping carts in front of them by the lock. To release the lock you need a 50 cent, 1€ or 2€ coin. To get them back you have to bring the shopping cart back and chain it back on. Some companies and shops even give away small printed tokens for shopping trolleys, made of plastic or tin, which can be attached to a bunch of keys as promotional gifts. The German food discount chain Aldi also does this in its American branches.

It works the same way in Spain as well

henlofurret said:
They used to have it some areas of the South when I was a kid, but large scale vandalism of the locking mechanisms made it more hassle than it was worth and now only Aldi bothers with it still.

I still see it at a few local Gulf Coast chains.

It's a little annoying because cashless society; I never have a quarter.

Only 2 carts?

It is normally dozens; people are all too often lazy and inconsiderate.

I was behind a person at a walmart,
who abandoned their shopping cart in the checkout line, with no way around or past it.

I no longer go to walmart, not because of the products, nor the company's reputation, but because of the nature of the ... shoppers





This world needs more foxes in love.

neeya said:
They did the same in France, but now everyone has a shitload of printed tokens which aren't valuable at all, so this is just an annoying useless security now

Solution: limited edition tokens with unique prints or gimmicks.
From a physisicsts convention I got a pcb cutout to fit into the slots. Always feels a bit like hacking carts now.^^
Especially some time ago when one supermarket put small computers on every cart to scan products in advance. They stopped using them prett fast though.
In general perhaps its more of a German thing... I guess we also wouldn't mind filling out a form for getting a cart.

yuki_foxsoul talked about deposit shopping carts

I've seen quite a few places in Denmark where they use this system too
But I've also seen assholes put them together like <> or _<^> to just dump them somewhere without deposit

So...what I'm taking away from this is if I see a shopping cart in the parking lot, I should drag a second one out to keep it company, right?

I think I missed the joke or moral. Can someone please explain?

Always worth checking to see if there's money in their lock thingy... :P