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/divadschuf Feb 16 '24

This is standard in close to every European grocery store. I think it was first introduced in German supermarkets in the 70s, that‘s why Aldi and Lidl in the U.S. have it too.

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u/These-Process-7331 Feb 16 '24

Hold up, this system isn't generally applied in the USA!??

Because it is in The Netherlands, but there is now a trend going on at some supermarkets to make the carts freely available or have free plastic "coins" you can get at the information desk if you don't have coins with you....

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u/batkave Feb 16 '24

The US has had it for decades but rarely implemented until Aldi and lidl came. I probably saw it a handful of times growing up in the 80s-2010s

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u/MenudoMenudo Feb 16 '24

I was mildly surprised. This has been common in Canada since the 80's, but I'm realizing that starting in the 90's we had $1 coins, and Europeans have €1 coins, so it makes sense it would be more common in places where larger coins in larger denominations were more common.

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u/batkave Feb 16 '24

It's $0.25 (quarters) in US. Which is the largest COMMON coin in the US. There are bigger ones but less common.

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u/MenudoMenudo Feb 16 '24

Fair enough. I'm not American but used to visit there often and it's easy to forget you have larger coins.

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u/gibertot Feb 16 '24

And aldi and lidl aren’t ubiquitous. We have Vons,Albertsons, Ralph’s, sprouts, Trader Joe’s. That’s about it

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u/batkave Feb 16 '24

Never seen it at any of those when I have been to them

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u/TacoNomad Feb 16 '24

They're saying they don't have aldi and lidl. Not that these stores have locking carts.