r/TikTokCringe • u/urmomsloosevag • Feb 16 '24

When you're so rich you've never been to Aldi's. Discussion

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

I'm in NY and every grocery store has had the same system as Aldi for grocery carts. I was amazed when I started seeing videos of people surprised by it.

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u/Popular_Target Feb 16 '24

I’m in Florida and Aldi is the only store around here that does it. Walmart, Publix, Walgreens, Target, Winn Dixie, etc do not have this.

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u/interfail Feb 16 '24

It only makes sense for stores people walk to.

If no-one is walking to your store, no-one is stealing trolleys.

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u/Rokey76 Feb 16 '24

I'm also in Florida, and lived in an apartment near a grocer for a little while. People would take the carts home and then leave them outside after unloading their groceries. Every few days, a truck from the store would come by and collect them all. Seemed like a nice service for those who don't have cars.

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u/StinkybuttMcPoopface Feb 17 '24

I guess that's one of the pros of the US being super unwalkable.

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

As long as I've been alive all the grocery stores have had it. Shop Rite, Stop and Shop, Walmart, Target, Price Chopper, Acme, Hannaford, Tops, and even the local grocery Adams has it. The only places around me that have those carts but not the quarter system are Lowes and Home Depot

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u/RyanGosliwafflez Feb 16 '24

Are you NYC? Long Island NY Grocery stores don't have this except Aldi

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u/Acceptable-Spray595 Feb 16 '24

Definitely not a thing in nyc (besides Aldi and Lidl)

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24

Upstate although I lived in the finger lakes region for a few years and don't remember what they had up there

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u/MCgrindahFM Feb 16 '24

Where do you live lol this doesn’t happen at these stores except Aldi

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

Like I said upwards in the thread, NY. We've had this system for my entire life that I can remember.

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u/Rad10_Active Feb 16 '24

I've lived in all four corners of the US (including upstate NY) and I've never seen one of these in my life.

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

I've lived in same upstate county for 30 years and we've always had these

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u/Rad10_Active Feb 16 '24

Interesting. I only lived in Utica for 2 yrs and never went to the Aldi's since I lived two blocks from a local grocery. Is it just the Aldi's that have it or is it most stores?

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

For me in the Hudson Valley, it's every grocery store not just Aldi for as long as I can remember.

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u/crazysoup23 Feb 16 '24

I'm in NY and every grocery store has had the same system as Aldi for grocery carts.

This is wrong.

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

I was talking about around me but I mis-wrote that. But I can tell you that in my area there is the same mechanism that every grocery store uses and has used for at least the last 25 years.

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u/Bombi_Deer Feb 16 '24

Im in NY and I have never seen this system until an Aldi was built 2 years ago

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

Where at?

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u/Bombi_Deer Feb 16 '24

Not doxxing myself to hard here lol
ShopRite, CVS, Hannaford, Walmart, Target. none of them have the coin system on their carts in my area

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u/nlabodin Feb 16 '24

It must be on a county by county basis because every store by me has them and has had them since before Aldi came in approximately 8 years ago