You can politely ask a fellow shopper or an employee to see if they have an extra quarter. Also, there is also a great Aldi hack in which you can use the backside of a key to insert into the coin slot.
Just be sure to remove the key as losing a quarter is ok, but a house key can be a different story! Lastly, you can walk into the cart corral and see if anyone left a cart unlocked. If you are new to Aldi, you may also be interested in our related guides on the best time to shop at Aldi , when does Aldi restocks , and why Aldi is so cheap.
The shopping carts contribute to a unique grocery experience, but even more importantly, to those ultra-low prices on everything you need to stock your fridge and pantry.
Gold 1, Silver Vix CMC Crypto 1, FTSE 7, Nikkei 29, Read full article. Morgan Cutolo. February 12, , PM. Recommended Stories. Motley Fool. CNW Group. It saves you both a few steps and a few seconds. We also often see carts sitting in the cart corral with quarters already in them. If we take one of these carts, we usually go ahead and leave the quarter for the next person, too. This is another question we are asked often.
I turned around and walked away, and have never been back. After reading their explanation in this article, I still never go back, unless I just want one thing like a weekly special. Not ever. Never ever. Rent a cart. Check yourself out. Bag your own groceries. Nope, any money they save goes right in the corporations banks. I had no change with me. It's just proper! It's also worth pointing out that there's something else that's not at work here, and that's the theory it might work as a theft deterrent.
According to NBC News , shopping cart theft is a huge problem across the retail industry. Some even have perimeter controls that lock the cart's wheels if they cross property lines, but studies have shown that cart rental systems like Aldi's aren't an effective deterrent when it comes to people who just want to wander off with a cart.
Apparently, people are willing to pay a quarter for a cart they can keep — even if it's not exactly legal. And if you're still wondering why Aldi is willing to inconvenience customers — and perhaps alienate new customers who aren't familiar with the system — there's a possible answer to that which doesn't involve money at all.
What it does involve is a different culture, and the fact that carts just don't concern Europeans as much as they do Americans. Since Aldi is a European chain, that matters more than you might think. Grand Voyage Italy took on the task of explaining Italy's and Europe's tradition of coin-release carts, and says that many Italians just don't use them.
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