Cart charges
#61
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lebanon Missouri
Posts: 2,668
All the Aldi stores do it You get your quarter back when you bring back the cart It saves the store money and time and its a lot better than having your car banged up by lazy peoples run-away carts :thumbup:
#62
Originally Posted by the lion
Would you believe that the Joann's in our area has carts where you have to put in a quarter in order for you to be able to use their carts? How about in your area?
#63
Our Aldi's has always done this.No big deal,when you take the cart back you get your quarter back.But what I can't understand is why no bags! If you forget to bring any bags you have to look for a empty box or unload you're groceries from the cart to the trunk!! That's just silly IMHO
#64
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 236
Are they maybe using the same cart system as they use at Aldis? Put in your quarter and then when you return the cart you can pull your quarter back out? Great system at Aldis, makes sure people bring their carts back so they are not rolling allover the parking lot banging into peoples cars.
#65
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Niles, OH
Posts: 236
Actually Aldi in our area does the same thing. I don't mind it because then I don't have abuggy that is left in the parking area that can run into my car or someone else's car or take up a parking space. I can see them doing it in bigger metropolitan areas if they have a lot of homeless people that would take them to use as their means of transporting their wordly possessions. So I really don't mind this.
#67
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Topeka, KS
Posts: 3,813
Do you get your quarter back when you put the cart back in the cart line?
Our Aldi's has carts like that. When you get one out, you put in a quarter to get it unlocked from the next one. When you take it back, put the end of the chain in the quarter slot and get your quarter back.
I have seen grocery carts all over the place. It seems to me that if you get your quarter back, it is a great way for the store to control it's cart inventory. I am sure they aren't cheap. Less lost carts keeps our bottom line down.
Our Aldi's has carts like that. When you get one out, you put in a quarter to get it unlocked from the next one. When you take it back, put the end of the chain in the quarter slot and get your quarter back.
I have seen grocery carts all over the place. It seems to me that if you get your quarter back, it is a great way for the store to control it's cart inventory. I am sure they aren't cheap. Less lost carts keeps our bottom line down.
#69
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 2,633
I guess when they start that around here I am finding another store to shop at. We get charged for shoplifters, damaged goods when people try them on --trying to get into a smaller size than the butt fits etc. what next. pretty soon we will be cutting our own fabric there too. we already bag our groceries at some stores.
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