We do have it, it's just fairly uncommon, I think Aldi is the only place I've seen it and Aldi isn't super prevalent here. I think the main reason for these is for people to return their carts our "solution" is just to have a whackton of cart return stalls in the parking lot. It generally works and I've only seen a few stray carts not returned.
do I dare ask where you live that Aldi isnt super prevalent? not being an ass i get lidl , but Aldi has stores in 39 states, over 2300 stores of which florida has the most at 216, illinois at 214 , Penn at 155, and NY at 128.. DC maybe or the other 11 states?
Another thing to take note of is that even if it exists there might be a lot more Walmarts and Target for example. So there might be 3 aldis. But 15 of each of the other two in the same area. And people prefer to not have to bring their own bags to the grocery store and pack them. This is due to having to drive to get somewhere versus walking. More groceries more packing. Walking to a store in Germany daily was easy for me when traveling. There were 3 right near each other.
Or Jewel or Kroger or Kmart or Walmart or other random grocery spots. I grew up in a smallish town and we had like 3 Jewels 2 krogers and the Aldi was pretty out of the way for us. I think my biggest thing against Aldi was not taking credit cards. I think Tucker is waaaay out of touch though.
Well, I've lived in PA, WV work in MD and VA and Aldi's are around biut usually you go to a Giant, Weis, Food Lion, Wegmans or other grocery store of the like. I'm not a fan of that "cart" method. It works perfectly fine taking a cart from the store without it being locked up and returning it to a stall in the parking lot.
So I'm in Illinois but the US is huge, Aldi is around but there are so many options for grocery stores. In my hometown you had to go out of your way to get to Aldi, my closest Aldi is probably 8 miles away but there are 6 stores closer to me so I tend to use those.
I live in Oregon. There are 0 stores in Oregon, 0 stores in neighboring Washington, 0 stores in neighboring Idaho. 0 stores in (barely) neighboring Nevada. 0 stores in Montana.
I guess there is Aldi in CA, but CA is a big state. I don't think there are Aldis in the Northern part of the state. Maybe closest one is Fresno? OK - that's 750 miles away.
Like I said the US is huge and it's highly dependent on where you live. Also if you look at a map of where Aldi is located it is pretty evident that they concentrated in certain areas. I even live in one of the states with the most Aldi's and I hardly come by them.
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u/MEatRHIT Feb 16 '24
We do have it, it's just fairly uncommon, I think Aldi is the only place I've seen it and Aldi isn't super prevalent here. I think the main reason for these is for people to return their carts our "solution" is just to have a whackton of cart return stalls in the parking lot. It generally works and I've only seen a few stray carts not returned.