They need to do it the European way where you have to deposit a coin to get the cart and you get it back when you return it. I think Aldi does this in the US.
The employees never minded. Sometimes I have to do it anyway because I’m visiting multiple shops. Aldi doesn’t have as much selection for spices as the other grocery stores, and it doesn’t have fake meat, just tofu. I like tofu, but sometimes I really want a treat and I get fake meat. But most of the time I grab a loose trolley in the carpark and bring it in to Aldi. It won’t be an Aldi one because everyone returns those.
I have a very good reason, I ride a bicycle. Unlike a car, I can’t lock my groceries in it when I’ve unloaded my trolley. I don’t feel like risking having my groceries stolen just to return a cart.
I assume then that you leave the cart very near the exit of the store? I don’t think anyone expects you to bring the cart way out into the parking lot just so an employee can go bring it right back. At the exit of the store is easy to grab, doesn’t block parking spaces, and doesn’t risk damaging cars by rolling into them. I’m fairly certain the shopping cart theory is about those who leave carts sitting around the parking lot.
But I’m still cheating. The ALDI carts aren’t designed to be used this way. If it were only Aldi and there were no other carts, I couldn’t do this. The system is still designed in a way incompatible with cycling. They could make it compatible by putting a corral next to the bike rack or a bike rack next to the corral, but they haven’t.
Should the stores have valet service patrolling the parking lot for your cart? Or should I just make sure to leave my cart parked uphill from your car?
Or maybe I should just make sure that there’s an empty cart inside every empty parking spot. That sounds like a fun sunny-day community anarchy event.
The best thing of the corrals is, when used properly, empty spots are actually empty and you don’t have to worry about stray carts slamming into your parked car. Unfortunately, they are rarely used properly.
Making work easier for the dude who has to go out to collect them is just gravy.
But there’s a segment of the American population that doesn’t want to do what’s best for ”nearly everyone, eventually”…they want to do what’s best for “me, now”. Even if most people (themselves included) doing the former automatically results in the latter. Basically prisoners dilemma. Same reason we still have Covid, same reason we can’t have public healthcare, and same reason a few kids collect lead at school every now and then.
Most stores here do have one or more people whose job is to collect carts.
You, meanwhile, are stepping dangerously close to a ‘the customer is always right’ argument. Having worked in retail I can personally assure you, the customer is usually wrong.
Again american with their “blame the customer instead of pushing bussinus to hire people full time”
They need to do it the European way where you have to deposit a coin to get the cart and you get it back when you return it. I think Aldi does this in the US.
This is why I always go out of my way to get a cart from a different shop when I’m shopping at Aldi
Like bringing a Target shopping cart into Walmart? That’s wild
The employees never minded. Sometimes I have to do it anyway because I’m visiting multiple shops. Aldi doesn’t have as much selection for spices as the other grocery stores, and it doesn’t have fake meat, just tofu. I like tofu, but sometimes I really want a treat and I get fake meat. But most of the time I grab a loose trolley in the carpark and bring it in to Aldi. It won’t be an Aldi one because everyone returns those.
I have a very good reason, I ride a bicycle. Unlike a car, I can’t lock my groceries in it when I’ve unloaded my trolley. I don’t feel like risking having my groceries stolen just to return a cart.
I assume then that you leave the cart very near the exit of the store? I don’t think anyone expects you to bring the cart way out into the parking lot just so an employee can go bring it right back. At the exit of the store is easy to grab, doesn’t block parking spaces, and doesn’t risk damaging cars by rolling into them. I’m fairly certain the shopping cart theory is about those who leave carts sitting around the parking lot.
But I’m still cheating. The ALDI carts aren’t designed to be used this way. If it were only Aldi and there were no other carts, I couldn’t do this. The system is still designed in a way incompatible with cycling. They could make it compatible by putting a corral next to the bike rack or a bike rack next to the corral, but they haven’t.
Should the stores have valet service patrolling the parking lot for your cart? Or should I just make sure to leave my cart parked uphill from your car?
Or maybe I should just make sure that there’s an empty cart inside every empty parking spot. That sounds like a fun sunny-day community anarchy event.
The best thing of the corrals is, when used properly, empty spots are actually empty and you don’t have to worry about stray carts slamming into your parked car. Unfortunately, they are rarely used properly.
Making work easier for the dude who has to go out to collect them is just gravy.
But there’s a segment of the American population that doesn’t want to do what’s best for ”nearly everyone, eventually”…they want to do what’s best for “me, now”. Even if most people (themselves included) doing the former automatically results in the latter. Basically prisoners dilemma. Same reason we still have Covid, same reason we can’t have public healthcare, and same reason a few kids collect lead at school every now and then.
In America the shops have areas where you return the carts and an employee takes them from that spot back to the store. The exception to this is Aldi.
Most stores here do have one or more people whose job is to collect carts.
You, meanwhile, are stepping dangerously close to a ‘the customer is always right’ argument. Having worked in retail I can personally assure you, the customer is usually wrong.