• Ileftreddit@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The lowly shopping cart is the only appliance that can absorb my gathered rage as I launch it full speed into its brethren

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    13 hours ago

    I ride the cart to the corral, stepping off at the last minute such that I stop while the cart reaches warp 1 and makes the loudest noise possible.

    I’m 40.

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    Disagree with these, except maybe LG, LE, NE, and CE.

    Neutral good: Given directly to the next customer.
    Chaotic good: Given to the poor.
    Lawful neutral: Returned to a corral.
    True neutral: Given to a staff member.
    Chaotic neutral: Returned to another store.

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    Im a “brought my own bag, and then put stuff in it at the store, unloaded it to scan and put it back into the bag after checkout” :3

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      Chaotic good is fine if you don’t launch it too hard. It’s enjoyable to put barely enough force in so that it just slides into the cart in front of it.

      It’s like bowling.

      Just don’t launch it from far away, otherwise it could veer into someone’s car. Which would be caught on camera, incidentally.

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        …or veer into a person, which happened to me (yes I was struck by a runaway cart, no I’m not proud of that). I was not seriously injured.

        In my defense, I was distracted- and that cart was running on silent mode or something.

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        Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.

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          Interesting. Presumably, enough of their customers now show up without the appropriate coins, due to electronic payment methods being available otherwise, that they decided to not require coins.

          Here in Germany, where we hold onto cash a bit more dearly due to our Stasi-past, I don’t know any shop where I can take a shopping cart without sticking a coin in…

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            Yeah there’s a few in Canada too that still use the coin. They usually will give you a coin to use if you go to customer service and ask. Most places just gave up though and abandoned that system. I wonder if it was costing them more to try to maintain or something. I’d imagine that people who have a cart tend to buy more, whereas if they’re forced to use baskets because they don’t have a coin, they might not buy as much. I know that’s the case for me at least.

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              I mean, I said “coin” but really I didn’t even mean “coin” as in “currency” but “coin-shaped piece of plastic that I have for this purpose”. The system has been in use here for decades now and I’d imagine that people using currency for carts are the exception. We all have the plastic substitute coins on our keychains. Was there a lot of pushback against the “coin operated” carts in Canada that nobody bothered with distributing replacement chips?

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              A local shop here only has shopping carts, no baskets. You can get smaller shopping carts, and in fact even shopping carts for toddlers to push around, but you still need a coin for those.

              And yep, I’ve genuinely been stood in front of that shop and went back home, because I didn’t have an appropriate coin. I think, even twice already.
              I could have bought a small item to have them hand me out coins and then done another loop with the shopping cart, but yeah, there was just no way, I’d waste that much time.

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    True neutral implies you took it from the homeless and are giving it back to them.

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      I used to do it with my car. Late at night, after store is closed, go to local supermarket, find unreturned trolleys, square them up with my car, line myself up, and push them along the car park like I was competing in some urban form of Curling.

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    Some of the returns sound like you took it from there in the first place. Return to the poor? Did you take it from them? Return to a culvert? Did you find it in a ditch and then take it shopping??