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Pet Peeve
Jan 13, 2024 16:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by emmsmommy on Jan 13, 2024 16:01:26 GMT -5
Change in the cupholder is okay if you don't actually use it for cups. Change plus sweaty cups equals an icky mess. Remember I'm in the sticks and no tolls for at least 150 miles. Actually hubby has a cup in the door pocket of his vehicle. Looks like I need to get one for my vehicle too.
I've only been to Aldi a handful of times but I think I've only paid for a cart once. Usually someone on the way out will give you their cart and I pay it back when I'm finished shopping.
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 13, 2024 17:40:52 GMT -5
Remember I'm in the sticks and no tolls for at least 150 miles. I don't drive anywhere now where change for tolls is required either. And on the rare occasion I do, our vehicles are set up with the "EZ Pass" thingy that sticks to the windshield.
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Post by desertwoman on Jan 13, 2024 18:02:10 GMT -5
You put a quarter in to unlock the cart, then lock the cart up when you leave to get your quarter back. Ah. I see. So has this store, Aldi, had a lot of problems with cart thievery? Do other stores have cart locks or just Aldi? This is fascinating to me. Ive never seen a cart lock/ had to pay before. People will always find the work-around (like passing the cart on to someone else). So for whatever reason Aldi feels the need to collect quarters I'm not seeing what benefit they gain.
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 13, 2024 18:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by datgirl on Jan 13, 2024 20:56:28 GMT -5
They really don't collect the quarters because you'll get your quarter back if you put the cart back. There are plenty of times I just pass the cart on to someone in the parking lot and tell them to keep their quarter. I'm the one that's out a quarter. Some people just leave their cart in the parking lot and some lucky person doesn't have to use their quarter, but if they return the cart and lock it up, they get a quarter back. I don't know of any other stores that have carts like this.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 14, 2024 11:10:07 GMT -5
Many years ago, all of the supermarkets in this area did that quarter thing, and it was like they got together and they all started doing it at the same time. I don't know how long they did it, but it was for several years, and I remember people came up with "fake quarters" to use in them. I don't know how much they would have cost, or why someone would have used one. The quarters were used for years, until the carts and the mechanisms started "showing their age", and they all eventually replaced the carts, but not the quarter mechanisms.
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Post by Mumsey on Jan 15, 2024 6:02:14 GMT -5
I keep at least one quarter in the cup holder for Aldi. Often this time of year it ends up in my coat pocket when I return the cart.
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Post by claude on Jan 19, 2024 15:58:18 GMT -5
That’s so funny. We do the quarter basket exchange. I read that it cuts employee wages having to gather and bring back the cart. I always return the cart even when not at Aldi because I’m able and a pet peeve is the runaway cart some lazy person leaves un corralled.
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Post by Mumsey on Jan 20, 2024 4:46:29 GMT -5
Winter time peeve. Store parking lots. Especially ones where you have to push your own cart to your car. It's a workout to plow through what their snow plows didn't get....... When lots are bad I try to buy only what I can carry.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 20, 2024 10:50:39 GMT -5
When lots are bad, I try not to buy!
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Post by datgirl on Jan 27, 2024 13:01:25 GMT -5
When people at the self checkout take their sweet time bagging their groceries knowing there is a line of people waiting. This happened to me yesterday at Aldi. I'm sure this woman was deliberately taking her time.
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 27, 2024 13:28:47 GMT -5
When people at the self checkout take their sweet time bagging their groceries knowing there is a line of people waiting. Our local Aldi doesn't have self-checkout yet, but every other self-checkout at all our other grocery stores has "bag as you go". There's no other option available. You scan your item & put it into the bag on the scale. You can't scan another item until the scale registers that you put the previous item in the bag. I don't understand how there can be any other way to do self-checkout.
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Post by emmsmommy on Jan 27, 2024 13:54:15 GMT -5
I think datgirl, is referring to the amount of time people are taking, not that bagging doesn't take time. I will not use self-checkout unless I'm crunched for time. And yes, some people do take an excruciatingly long time bagging. I relate it to people crossing in the walking lane in front of the store and taking their good sweet time at it. Now I can understand if it's someone elderly or otherwise incapacitated, but I generally try to get across and out of the way in appreciation of the drivers who actually observe the right-of-way.
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Post by datgirl on Jan 27, 2024 14:05:13 GMT -5
breezygardener,That's how I do it, but this lady would scan and put it down on the little side shelf. Then when she was done scanning, she was arranging the items in the box she had grabbed. Then she paid for it, then she had to find her gloves, then her keys etc. emmsmommy,If she were elderly or disabled or something like that, I would be the first to go help her or just be understanding. I have helped plenty of elderly people in the store and parking lot and given away plenty of quarters. This lady was just self absorbed.
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Pet Peeve
Jan 27, 2024 14:27:06 GMT -5
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Post by emmsmommy on Jan 27, 2024 14:27:06 GMT -5
datgirl, I'm of average height but I often am asked or offer to get items off of high shelves for others. Even took out my phone a time or two to try to find the location of an item for another shopper and often go along to help them find it. Just the way I was raised. I know when I was pregnant I saw a lady on a motorized cart struggling to get something off of a shelf and sent hubby down the aisle to help her. Turned out it was my first mother-in-law but I had no idea at the time. Just saw that she needed help.
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