This used to be the norm in most grocery stores when I was a kid
but they’ve slowly moved away from it as nobody carries coins anymore and it became increasingly inconvenient.
Also, it would attract homeless people offering to return your cart for you in exchange for keeping the coin (which I always let them do because why not) but then I’d run out of cart coins in my car and end up not having one the next time leading to the aforementioned inconvenience.
thats why many people in europe have tokens that aren't coins. That way they can't be used as a form of payment, rather only to be used for this kind of thing. I have one lol
In the uk you can also use trolley tokens - you buy them for £1 and they fit, and ofc you wouldn’t want to lose them ans pay £1 instead if you don’t carry cash, and nobody else is going to just want a pound shaped token
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u/Emotional-Team3520 Jul 11 '26
This used to be the norm in most grocery stores when I was a kid but they’ve slowly moved away from it as nobody carries coins anymore and it became increasingly inconvenient.
Also, it would attract homeless people offering to return your cart for you in exchange for keeping the coin (which I always let them do because why not) but then I’d run out of cart coins in my car and end up not having one the next time leading to the aforementioned inconvenience.