I don’t mean just returning your shopping cart to the cart area, but actually sliding it back in. At my grocery store, some people half ass stack it back in or don’t at all. This drives me nuts because when I come to return it I have to fix the mess before I can return mine. Plus, I don’t want the workers who collect the carts to do any more work than they already do.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    Ehm, yes, but in Germany you also put a Euro into the cart to release the chain, and need to return the cart to get it back.

    Not so sure this would work here without that…

    • Fermiverse@gehirneimer.de
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      5 months ago

      Not everywhere anymore.

      Some years ago they had a person going around collecting and storing the trolleys. Then they switched to the coin thing, sparing staff.

      Now I experience some already dropping that too. Just take and put it back in.

    • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      I’ve seen a lot of supermarkets recently where the mechanism is still there but all the carts are unlocked, so that you don’t need to insert a coin anymore. At least where I live this works just as well and people return their carts into the stack. We were probably conditioned to do it during the last years when the coin was still necessary, and now it just sticks.

    • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Real pros carry a thing to unlock the carts without a coin. A small metal piece on your key chain or wallet dies the trick. We still return the cart every time. This is just common sense.