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cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I basically never see abandoned carts, but I have returned to where I parked my cart to find it gone. I’m sure no one is taking it maliciously, but I am always just an aisle over and I parked it there because the aisle I need is jam packed with shoppers already.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The rules of the cart

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Get a cart and a hand basket. Or, put an item in your empty cart and remove it when you return.

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I believe, that would only really be a thing in the US? In most other countries, we have coin locks on the shopping carts, so you can only get them from the corral by inserting a coin into the shopping cart, and you only get your coin back when you return the shopping cart to the corral…

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Never seen a coin lock in NZ.

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I might specifically remember the US not usually having them, because they invented/popularized shopping carts, which always feels kind of backwards that they’re using a simpler version.

      Wikipedia has at least some info on the distribution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart#Deposits

      (And I can confirm that here in Germany, you practically cannot find shopping carts without coin locks. I’m not sure, if I’ve ever seen one TBH.)

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      • boonhet@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve never seen it except for in Lidl here in Estonia. Most people return their carts anyway.

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    • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To increase your sample size, these seem to be rare where I am in western Canada. The only store I can think of that used to have them removed them at least a decade ago.

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