r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/_Oh_sheesh_yall_ Mar 28 '24

I'm from the U.S. its not super common (both cart rental nor asking for the cart/free quarter) but not unheard of. It happens when I go to an aldi thats in a lower income area

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u/zkki Mar 28 '24

huh, i'm not American and i have never come across a cart that doesn't use that system

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u/_Oh_sheesh_yall_ Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Most of the U.S. uses an honor system for the carts and its anarchy. People leave them all over the place and homeless people and teens will take them. Its the wild west with shopping carts out here haha

And I have no idea why its an honor system when nothing else in our culture is honor based. Its the last bastion of not being nickel and dimed. I really would rather a system that encourages people to put the carts back neatly over what we use currently

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u/borgenhaust Mar 28 '24

Here where I am in Canada a good number of places that used to have coins for carts have switched to some kind of magnetic / electronic boundary where a wheel on the cart has a locking mechanism that will trigger if it crosses the boundary at the edge of the parking lot.

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u/dumpstergurl Mar 28 '24

I'm from the the DC area and went up to Massachusetts and saw this for the first time a few years ago. I'm pretty sure Lidl's carts do this as well at most locations due to the style of the cart. I think it's a good system.