• WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
    29·
    8 days ago

    Does Aldi have a patent on requiring a quarter to use a cart, or something? I know people frequently don’t carry change much anymore, but it seems to work pretty well so I’m sure people encountering this ensure they have a coin or two handy.

    What infuriates me more is how so many companies - including Walmart - have eliminated virtually ALL trash receptacles in the parking lots. That’s cheaping out to a ridiculous degree, IMHO.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      My guess is the initial cost plus the additional maintenance--no doubt those coin slot jam sometimes-- plus the complaints from customers who don’t have a quarter is what keeps them from being more commonplace in the U.S.

      Yeah, what is it with that? What happened to the trashcans? They disappeared last Spring here.

      Fucking penny-pinching cheap-ass leeching billionaires.

    • thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      14·
      8 days ago

      My city council does the same. Over the years population and consumerism has built up, naturally, so the common effect is more trash.

      • One: Many people aren’t incentivised to recycle and always use general use bags.
      • Two: The council enforces a two bag limit on collection, and it can’t be a big bag or the collectors’ll slap a sticker on it saying it’s too dangerous to pick up. This results in more people relying on public bins to be hygienic and dispose of house waste.
      • Three: Public bins don’t get emptied so often and therefore overflow. The council’s response? Remove the bin because it’s being ‘abused’. The effect? Trash gets piled up even more at the remaining bins.
      • Four: Now there’s like three, maybe two council bins in the entire city, the public have to use private apartment and shop bins, so they overflow. When those are too full to close, the collectors issue a notice that it’s too dangerous to move, and the landlords and store owners are made to pay a large fee to get it removed by the same people out of hours. They foot the cost and are left scrambling to try and penalise the ones responsible for dropping the trash, the council pockets penalty money and does nothing because it’s no longer their problem.

      There’s still the issue that the overwhelming majority, by statistics, doesn’t recycle. This can be addressed but isn’t.

      • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        8 days ago

        So leave your garbage in a cart in a Walmart parking lot. Oh, but we don’t want to hurt the poor Walmart corporation my making them hire more people to deal with it - like with not putting a cart back in the coral.

    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
      73·
      8 days ago

      No way.

      Cunts just need to invest the bare minimum of effort required in order to be a member of society and return their trolley to the bay.

      The coin lock thingy is shit.

    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      At least in Germany, where Aldi originates from, that’s how almost all the carts work. Would doubt there’s a (valid) patent, the idea is decades old.