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7 months agoIn Europe many stores hand out coin-sized plastic tokens that unlock the cart. You still want to get your token back at the end of a shopping trip, though, and take the cart back to the cart queue (which I assume is the real purpose of the coin lock things).
Now I’m hurting my head by thinking about traveling faster than 370 km/s in the opposite direction to Earth…