In Spain people leave carts around too, but they either manage to retrieve the coin without other cart or they use a keyless method.
TL;DR: I have a trick to grab carts without leaving a coin or any placeholder in the cart, but people are such pieces of shit that I still always return the cart AND chain it up, because the next person who grabs it with no coin may just leave it anywhere.
Backstory:
Over 15 years ago, while I was working for a hypermarket chain for the summer, I found out a coworker was using those old can opener twist “keys” to get carts and then pull the key out right away sideways. My parents actually still had a couple of those at home that I grabbed for myself, and my dad later used them as a template to make more of these “coinless-keys”.
Whealthiness vs lazyness lol.
In Spain people leave carts around too, but they either manage to retrieve the coin without other cart or they use a keyless method.
TL;DR: I have a trick to grab carts without leaving a coin or any placeholder in the cart, but people are such pieces of shit that I still always return the cart AND chain it up, because the next person who grabs it with no coin may just leave it anywhere.
Backstory:
Over 15 years ago, while I was working for a hypermarket chain for the summer, I found out a coworker was using those old can opener twist “keys” to get carts and then pull the key out right away sideways. My parents actually still had a couple of those at home that I grabbed for myself, and my dad later used them as a template to make more of these “coinless-keys”.
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But most of those keys cannot be pulled out right away, that’s the important thing!
Maybe some of the oddly shaped ones…