even better: just don’t have people arrive by car, so they only need a small in-store cart which is returned at the tills.
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wdx@feddit.org 1 month agoIn Germany (and I assume all throughout Europe) we solve the shopping cart problem by shoppers having to deposit a coin or chip into the cart to release it.
You get it back when you lock the cart again back where you took it
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Also done in Slovakia. Well, was. Most shops have them unlocked even without coins nowadays, probably because people don’t carry cash much anymore.
cynar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s common in the UK as well, though mostly in the cheaper supermarkets. A lot of places rely on the honour system, and convenient drop off places.
I’m of the mindset that you can judge a society quite well by how they deal with shopping trollies.