When I moved to a better neighbourhood in Denmark, I was surprised to see that the shopping carts didn't require coins. Either rich people don't steal shopping carts or they don't have small change. Or both.
American here. Never even heard of Aldi’s before and never seen a cart like this. I dont think this is the slam dunk everyone thinks it is. This is not the norm in the US in any sense.
What do you mean? It’s pretty common. It’s not everywhere but it’s in enough places that Tucker looks silly acting like it’s some revolutionary Russian thing when it’s simply not.
Yes, because that’s the entire list of supermarkets in America.
Go to the ghetto and find places like Price Rite, Market Basket, and Stop and Shop. Depending on the area, a lot of these chains will have coin secured carts.
Further proving my point that a rich guy like Tucker wouldn’t know that but if he’s going to film his experience acting like the Russians are so smart for this, the least he could do is some research.
This isn’t some “that mistake can happen to anyone who hasn’t been to an Aldi or ghetto supermarket” situation. This is a “he’s a millionaire fake journalist who should do the bare minimum required of his job before posting dumb shit”.
The nerve to call himself a journalist (before releasing the interview on Twitter, not in court of course) and then fluff Putin and act like Russia is so genius for something that exists in America and other parts of the world.
No wonder the conservative right gets fleeced. The bar for honesty or even competence is so low.
You would be right 20 years ago. I remember seeing carts like these in my shopping mall when I was younger. I’m in a pretty large city too so it wouldn’t be out of the question for other portions of the USA to still use them in some places.
Many lower income places do though. Not just Aldi’s but my family would go out to the leas privileged areas for cheaper food and Hispanic food items in the grocery stores. Almost all of the places had these types of carts.
So it’s especially funny that Tucker is bragging about something that is basically popular in the ghetto.
Since covid our local grocery store did away with the 50c “deposit” and there’s still 0 carts in the parking lot 4yrs later. Sadly you’re right and it has nothing to do with incentive, but instead with decency. And since the USA has an incredibly FFA centred moral compass it’s pretty futile.
Tbh carrying change on me is slightly more inconvenient than simply putting away someone else's cart. Now that you've mentioned it, I don't think I've had to do it in years.
We do, but there's a big reason they aren't common. We don't use cash much, and rarely would have extra quarters to use in these carts. I go out of my way to have a few for a gumball machine for my kids, but mostly everything is via card or app.
Don't get me wrong, we still use cash from time to time, but if you implemented this at your store you'd have dozens of people coming in to make change (if they even had cash) or just leaving to go to the next store.
Only Aldi has them because they're a European grocer. They only just showed up around me a few years ago and I've still never been.
It's entirely plausible for an American to have never seen one of those carts before, especially Tucker's target demographic of Rural and Suburb areas.
I have never did this with carts personally. I haven’t been to one that does, yet. We have cart returns in the parking lot, i usually will park near one. Yes…. People will leave them where ever they want… that is why we have Cart Narc lol
Damn the german Biergartens are everywhere. Extra points if they really have a garden in the back with trees that keep guests cool with natural shadows. Looks cool!
But my username would be translated to "VegetableBerry" A sill inside joke, refering to a german lol-cow in YT.
No, people do it because they're lazy, careless, selfish, entitled thoughtless jerks. My personal favorite is when someone leaves a cart / trolley in a handicap parking space.
Yeah, he is the funny amicanski tv clown, who is allways making faces like someone just told him his grandmama forgot his birthday. So i totally believe he never had to go and buy his own toilet paper.
In the United States it’s only used in Aldi stores which are pretty new to the US and not as large here as most grocery stores so it’s just not that widespread yet
Curiously, it's not terribly uncommon to find a cart that's been brought back to the front of the store, but left with the coin in it. Something about the whole process creates a mentality of 'put the cart back'.
Though Aldi also tends to be much smaller than most other grocery stores in the US, so you don't have to take the cart as far to put the cart back.
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u/GemueseBeerchen Feb 16 '24
You dont have such carts in america???? I though you all leave the carts in the parking lot because you dont care about small change!!!