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Old 02-28-2016, 08:45 AM
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Aldi's feature of '25cents carts' is novel - insert a quarter into slot and the chain connecting to all carts is released-quarter stays in slot locked in cart handle. Do your shopping, return the cart to corral at the store, attach the chain from last cart into yours and your quarter is released...into your pocket.
Bottom line the user is charged the quarter for use and returned when the cart is back. A small incentive but works. No carts around the lot, and no need for employees to spend time hunting down loose carts. Also Aldi's price scanner/clerks never seems to fail.
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