Quote Originally Posted by happystuff View Post
The 25 cent cart is at Aldi's here and works like a dream by me. People seem bound and determined to get their quarter back and I have yet to see a stray cart anywhere. Now the other local grocery stores are a totally different story. LOL
You know it may be situational or location driven but stray shopping carts are not a problem in our area, people here put them away. I remember in 2006 I went down to Pascagula Mississippi on a relatively long assignment and stopped at a WalMart to pick up a few things and was shocked to see carts left all over the parking lot and surrounding area. I'd just never seen that before.

At our local Aldi's I would guess that maybe 50% of the time quarters are not used to unlock a cart because people in the lot will turn their cart over to new arrivals as they finish loading their cars. Maybe we're just too lazy to walk them back for a quarter but I see it happen and do it myself all the time. Yesterday in fact someone gifted us with their cart and we did the same upon leaving.