The Real Reason Aldi Makes Customers Pay For Shopping Carts

We all love Aldi for its great deals, offbeat brands, and smaller, easy-to-navigate stores. Aldi is becoming the main alternative to the bigger (more expensive) grocery stores and supermarkets. Even with the great selection and savings, shopping can still be a stressful chore. Have you ever braved rush hour traffic to squeeze in a quick grocery trip, only to be hopelessly stuck at the entrance of an Aldi, staring at a bundle of chained carts? Aldi may save you pennies on the dollar, but you’ll still need a quarter if you want to do any heavy shopping. Have you ever wondered why Aldi makes you rent its shopping carts? In this video, we’ll finally answer that question.

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[MashedFood]

Do you champion Aldi's or do you prefer to shop at other markets?

[Rsaunders__]

I just watched a video about shopping carts at Aldi.... What am I doing with my life?

[TheStokijss]

What? In europe its like this since supermarkets showed up. Usa must be waay behind

[harleydancer]

To make you put it back lazy. It also keeps prices down. They should sell the public shopping carts lol.

[vaxen]

In Mexico some super markets have parking lot attendants. They load your groceries, help you back up, and watch over the vehicles. They are paid no wage and work for tips.

[NeonfOxa]

We have that coin release system in Australia as well, as kids for extra money we would walk around and offer to return peoples karts, and make a few dollars from collecting the coin, and people also would return any they find just left around in order to make a few dollars :) Aussie ones use 1 & 2 dollar coins, so can add up fast :)

[CapCrunch]

Smart way motivation to get shoppers to return carts to the store. I always worry when shoppers leave carts in the parking lot, for fear they may hit cars.

[mimzou]

All supermarkets in Europe ask you to put a coin in your cart. It's not Aldi, it's ALL of them.

[mannycampos]

This is actually smart. Smarter than Walmart lol

[kritsadventures]

You don't pay a quarter. You put a refundable quarter down as collateral for returning the cart.

[STN]

As an european person, i can debunk the whole "europeans don't use shopping carts" bs. Most people (in my country at least) tend to do their groceries on a weekly basis, meaning they sure need a shopping cart. Its true however that fridges here tend to be smaller.

The coin sytem being concidered weird in the U.S. is just a matter of custom. In our country a store made the news because they stopped using it.

[calihiker]

When I was a kid and my mom was shopping at Aldis I would wait outside for people who wouldn’t return their carts and get the quarter👍🏽

[ZEAC]

Every store should do what ALDI'S does.

[MokokerMovies]

Where I live most retailers do this, funny lots of supermarkets hand out coins with their branding designed for shopping carts.... really defeats the purpose. But anyways it solved the problem of people leaving the carts on spots were they should not be.

[everyone]

USA = Shopping Carts
UK = Shopping Trolley

[sokyoul]

I was shocked when i went to a grocery store in the States that almost no one returns their shopping cart!
Here with or without coin we would always return it and not leave it around the parking lot

[OldAndGettingOlder]

25¢ in the States, but in Europe (Switzerland at least) it's a $1 or $2 coin (Franc actually).

I stole a cart once, but I returned it when I was done with it. I used it to sift big rocks out of dirt. It worked great. Thanks Home Depot.

[kidkrow]

Yeah, this happens everywhere in Ireland. In some stores, they even advertise donating your Cart Euro towards the donation place (forgot what it's called) that the store is partnering up with

[mrunknown]

Those coin release shopping carts are very common in Canada. Many of them require a dollar put in them. In Canada the dollar denomination is a coin, which is about 75 cents in US currency. It does motivate people to take the carts back.

[Merione]

I'm European and I once was given a fake coin in a shop. I only realized when I got home, but I kept it anyway and marked it to avoid accidentally using it. It's been in my wallet ever since and I never find myself without a coin for the cart when I go to the store.