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I wasn’t sure where to put this, but I’m wondering if ALDIs is a kind of social experiment.
I just got back from ALDIs. If you shop there, you know that it takes a quarter to release a cart, and when you return it you get a quarter back.
Almost every time I go, someone who has just unloaded their cart, gives it to me instead of going to get their quarter back. I offer them a quarter, but they say no. I’m wondering if other ALDIs are like that, or if it’s a Georgia thing?
This led me to wonder if it’s ALDIs way of fostering a sense of community.
Born and raised in Germany, I always shopped at Aldi. Everywhere in Germany you have to put in money to get a cart. Therefore, they don't need to hire people to collect them all over the parking lot and no one steals them, even though $0.25 is not much!
When they had the first Aldi store in Oxnard, Southern Cali, people thought it costs a Quarter to borrow the cart. Lol. I probably got about $15 out of the returned ones in the first few months until people got smarter.
I wasn’t sure where to put this, but I’m wondering if ALDIs is a kind of social experiment.
I just got back from ALDIs. If you shop there, you know that it takes a quarter to release a cart, and when you return it you get a quarter back.
Almost every time I go, someone who has just unloaded their cart, gives it to me instead of going to get their quarter back. I offer them a quarter, but they say no. I’m wondering if other ALDIs are like that, or if it’s a Georgia thing?
This led me to wonder if it’s ALDIs way of fostering a sense of community.
That's not the only place that does the quarter thing. The No Frills chain in Canada does the same thing.
It's a way to get lazy people to put carts where they belong, and it's also a cost savings passed on to shoppers....no employee chasing down and returning carts.
I never reclaim my quarter...
It happens to me sometimes at both ALDIs in my town. I suspect it's unintentional on the part of ALDI, but a nice reassurance that there are still some kind people out there.
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It's a way to get lazy people to put carts where they belong, and it's also a cost savings passed on to shoppers....no employee chasing down and returning carts.
I never reclaim my quarter...
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