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Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: It's a German/European thing primarily. Aldi does it in every country they operate in.
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It's a simple psychological trick to get you to return your cart. It's standard in Germany.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:06
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It won't stop someone from stealing a cart (a coin is pretty cheap for that) but it directs people to return them to their right places, saving employees time. If someone can't be bothered to get their coin back, then someone else will feel the greed and return the cart. In my childhood one chain had a cart returning system where there was a cart returning machine that printed you a sticker when you returned the cart. By collecting enough of those stickers in a booklet you could get, I don't know. Some ridiculously small discount? But since me and my friend had too much spare time during weekends, we would often end up there collecting carts from other people while our parents were doing shopping. It was a fierce competition with the pensioners, mind you.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:08
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So Europeans still carry coins around? I haven't carried coins for over a decade.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:09
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Standard in the UK too and has been for like to years. These days they even have break clamps that activate of you try and push them out of the area.HisMajestyBOB posted:So Europeans still carry coins around? No. You can buy a token that also works. Have one on my keys.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:09
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HisMajestyBOB posted:So Europeans still carry coins around? If you shop at Aldi you get used to carrying 1 single quarter around for Aldi, ours lives in the center console of the car.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:11
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HisMajestyBOB posted:So Europeans still carry coins around? We are not that poverty struck, yet.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:12
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I guess Faxanadus is just new to Aldi. For a long time they didn't accept credit cards in the US at all, and when they started accepting credit cards their prices were hiked noticeably. I wish they'd go back.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:13
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HisMajestyBOB posted:So Europeans still carry coins around? Most places in Europe and Canada eliminated their equivalent of the $1 and $2 bills and replaced them coins a long time ago. It was very annoying because all change always comes with a bunch of giant coins.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:24
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Japan will always win the most behind in fintech award. They don't use checks I thought.
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Nov 16, 2023 17:51
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Yes aldi does that, and the primary reason as far as I know is to get people to return their carts, and it works great
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Nov 16, 2023 17:55
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Safeways here are rapidly increasing what they keep behind locked cabinets. For example last month they had most of the candy locked up, to go with all the common stuff like alcohol, toiletries, cleaning supplies, etc. As previously mentioned, the main effect it has is to make me buy all of those things somewhere else.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:02
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Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: An Aldi near me tried not doing this, the parking lot was filled with unreturned carts almost immediately 
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Nov 16, 2023 18:16
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Aldi is probably the best grocery store chain in the city I live in. They even have a surprisingly good stock of vegan foods, including some of the best vegan frozen burgers I've ever had. My only complaint is they added self checkout counters to the one I go to (it went from like 6 regular checkout lines down to like, 2 and 8 self checkout) and they don't even staff the regular lines outside of peak hours.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:49
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When it comes to carts I find there always seem to be a few "free" carts around, so I just take one of those, haven't needed a coin in forever. Of course I also put the cart back afterwards.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:55
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lol at the user that's new to Aldi. also i love it when other peep give me their quarter as I return my cart. or the one dude that gave me a bunch of nickles (0 . 35$) so i technically profited.
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Nov 16, 2023 19:15
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PhazonLink posted:lol at the user that's new to Aldi. Even in the state that has the 4th most Aldis in the US I've never been to one. Grocery stores are highly regional and Aldi isn't even in the top 10 in number of stores or top 20 in annual sales in the US, it's not absurd that someone isn't familiar with their policies
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Nov 16, 2023 19:42
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Jose Valasquez posted:Even in the state that has the 4th most Aldis in the US I've never been to one. Grocery stores are highly regional and Aldi isn't even in the top 10 in number of stores or top 20 in annual sales in the US, it's not absurd that someone isn't familiar with their policies
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Nov 16, 2023 20:05
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Jose Valasquez posted:Even in the state that has the 4th most Aldis in the US I've never been to one. Grocery stores are highly regional and Aldi isn't even in the top 10 in number of stores or top 20 in annual sales in the US, it's not absurd that someone isn't familiar with their policies I've also never been to Aldi. There's one that's not far from me, but my preferred store is even closer and easier to get to. I should still stop in someday.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:14
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WinCo or bust I don't carry quarters around and the local Aldi sells half the stuff WinCo does
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cat botherer posted:I went into an Aldi's the first time when I was out of state a few months ago. Tried to pull a cart out and it wouldn't budge, and then realized I needed a quarter, but I didn't have one. A nice man gave me a quarter and it worked out. It's a good system, just non-obvious for many people. They really should have baskets though. This is why they keep so many boxes around, they can be used as baskets and/or in lieu of bags
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Nov 16, 2023 20:18
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Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: Canada has been doing this for about thirty years. Some use a quarter, some use a dollar coin.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:25
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We don't have loonies in America.
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withak posted:We don't have loonies in America. yes you do, you just call them "President Trump"
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cat botherer posted:I went into an Aldi's the first time when I was out of state a few months ago. Tried to pull a cart out and it wouldn't budge, and then realized I needed a quarter, but I didn't have one. A nice man gave me a quarter and it worked out. It's a good system, just non-obvious for many people. They really should have baskets though. They should take checks as well.
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withak posted:We don't have loonies in America. Said the American living in a post-factual era
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sometimes, they have a local pseudo-union negotiation board if it is a small or local industry not covered by a union. I'm not sure how common those are, but I remember there was a big kerfluffle involving them a few years back. They also do set compensation rates individually for lots of jobs that aren't service industry or manufacturing, it's not 100% group rates for everyone in Sweden. Those are Workers Councils. They have a lot of influence over what the megacorp I work for does in terms of employment issues like worker privacy. The ones in Germany basically dictate what data we can collect on what our computers are actually doing. The guideline we have is "don't automatically collect any data that could be used in a disciplinary action." This came up today in reference to a tool that can collect data on interactions with a computer, as in keyboard and mouse activity. Our Legal people shot that down before we even told the Workers Councils what were were thinking of collecting.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:58
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Papercut posted:Safeways here are rapidly increasing what they keep behind locked cabinets. For example last month they had most of the candy locked up, to go with all the common stuff like alcohol, toiletries, cleaning supplies, etc. As previously mentioned, the main effect it has is to make me buy all of those things somewhere else. I find myself wondering how long until somebody just turns a whole grocery store into an automat
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Nov 16, 2023 22:18
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HisMajestyBOB posted:So Europeans still carry coins around? There are 1€ and 2€ coins and I’m pretty sure it’s some EU mandate that all foldable wallets must have a built in coin pocket. I mean I’m joking about the eu mandate thing but I’ve never actually seen a foldable men’s wallet without a coin pocket in Europe. Pls don’t post pictures of your dumb wallets to prove me wrong. E: Faxanadus next time when you return your cart, just take the end of the chain from the cart in front of you and stick it in yours to lock it up and get your coin back lmao
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Nov 16, 2023 22:47
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withak posted:We don't have loonies in America. But we do have Sacagawea dollars! I still have a couple of them, got 'em as a cheap stocking stuffer over 20 years ago.
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Freakazoid_ posted:But we do have Sacagawea dollars! I have a few as well, I keep meaning to deposit them at the bank since they don't fit in my change jar.
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Nov 16, 2023 23:33
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Cactrot posted:You don't often buy razors or detergent, do you? we're kinda doing that, you still need the clerk to grab the product, but you're expected to do the checkout yourself. The last time I was in Vegas I went to a CVS and the ice cream was in a locked section. I know choco tacos are great but they don't need to be locked up like they're precious jewels. Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: You're only paying to use the cart if you're too lazy to put it back. Aldi's is great because a bunch of their stuff is cheap as hell even compared to the Walmart or Target right down the street.
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Evil Fluffy posted:The last time I was in Vegas I went to a CVS and the ice cream was in a locked section. I know choco tacos are great but they don't need to be locked up like they're precious jewels. That Good Eats episode with the ice cream being chained to the supermarket freezer came true.
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Mister Facetious posted:Canada has been doing this for about thirty years. Glad of it too, cause I almost never carry cash/change with me these days.
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Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: In the US Costco (then Price Club) had this in the 90s and probably longer, it used to be extremely common.
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Another thing to hate about AI: they're causing a bunch of extra water use.Gizmodo posted:Google, another tech giant that has heavily invested in AI products, has also seen a spike in water usage. An environmental report released this July outlined that the company’s water usage increased about 20% from 2021 to 2022. “We’re working to address the impact of our water consumption through our climate-conscious data center cooling approach and water stewardship strategy,” a spokesperson told Gizmodo in an email this July.
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Mister Facetious posted:Canada has been doing this for about thirty years. And at most of the places that have this, you can get a "coin" that hangs from your keychain so you always have one with you. Although then it's a pain when someone tries to "buy" your cart by handing you a coin and you have to awkwardly decline and continue walking to the cart return.
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Nov 17, 2023 02:02
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wait no hang on you get the quarter back?! I have some extremely serious complaints about signage now
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Blut posted:Tesla and Elon's hardcore anti union stance is about to kick them in the rear end in Sweden it seems: Agreed. Related to Elon, I was reading the news this morning and there's a SpaceX launch green lit for tomorrow and it reminded me how funny it is that Musk has to be so cool and synergistic by naming everything with an X; to the point that news outlets are referring to the new "X" platform as "formerly known as Twitter" as if it were Prince changing his name to the symbol. Except that Prince had artistic and business reasons for doing that. He wanted to own his music, which seems fair, and faced the ridicule which made him seem insane at the time but for which he was ultimately vindicated. Musk just wants a loving X on poo poo because he thinks it's cool or edgy and modern. Why would you change a tech company's name that's so ubiquitous it created its own verb in the modern discourse and invite the confusion of "it's called this now but everyone knows it as this other thing that everyone already knows?" and most people still call it that. Christ, "X" anything bullshit was played out before the 90's even ended for anything beyond the Xbox or internet porn. If Elon bought Fox News, he'd probably change the name to FoXXX and maybe add "NewZ". Or just Xnews. Because X's are kewl. What a weirdo.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:wait no hang on Someone failed the shopping trolley test
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