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Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 day agoI 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…
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Never seen a coin lock in NZ.
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.)
boonhet@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I’ve never seen it except for in Lidl here in Estonia. Most people return their carts anyway.
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.