• @grue
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    745 months ago

    That doesn’t mean the concept is flawed; it just means those businesses were smart enough to put in countermeasures against bad people.

    • @[email protected]
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      185 months ago

      It also means that the people who do leave the shopping cart in places without the deposit are the kind of cheapskates who can be bought for a euro. They’re only neutral evil.

      True chaotic evil assholes would pay the deposit on several carts only to leave them.

      • @3ntranced
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        15 months ago

        That actually sounds like a hilarious way to spend 10$, especially when Aldi in the states still only requires a quarter

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          Then sit back and film the people returning the carts for the quarter. Put it on YouTube and profit.

    • @shalafi
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      105 months ago

      They do this so they don’t have to pay staff to return carts, one of many reasons Aldi is so cheap.

      • Karyoplasma
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        25 months ago

        “Cart returner” is not a job. It’s a thing regular employees have to do because some folks choose to be lazy. If everybody would return their carts, these employees would simply work on other shit in the store like cleaning or re-arranging misplaced items. Leaving the cart does not create jobs, it makes existing jobs more tedious.

    • @arin
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      15 months ago

      That means there were enough bad people that businesses wanted to purchase a lock token system at the expense of convenience of customers and overhead costs of their businesses