The employees never minded. Sometimes I have to do it anyway because I’m visiting multiple shops. Aldi doesn’t have as much selection for spices as the other grocery stores, and it doesn’t have fake meat, just tofu. I like tofu, but sometimes I really want a treat and I get fake meat. But most of the time I grab a loose trolley in the carpark and bring it in to Aldi. It won’t be an Aldi one because everyone returns those.
I have a very good reason, I ride a bicycle. Unlike a car, I can’t lock my groceries in it when I’ve unloaded my trolley. I don’t feel like risking having my groceries stolen just to return a cart.
I assume then that you leave the cart very near the exit of the store? I don’t think anyone expects you to bring the cart way out into the parking lot just so an employee can go bring it right back. At the exit of the store is easy to grab, doesn’t block parking spaces, and doesn’t risk damaging cars by rolling into them. I’m fairly certain the shopping cart theory is about those who leave carts sitting around the parking lot.
But I’m still cheating. The ALDI carts aren’t designed to be used this way. If it were only Aldi and there were no other carts, I couldn’t do this. The system is still designed in a way incompatible with cycling. They could make it compatible by putting a corral next to the bike rack or a bike rack next to the corral, but they haven’t.
This is why I always go out of my way to get a cart from a different shop when I’m shopping at Aldi
Like bringing a Target shopping cart into Walmart? That’s wild
The employees never minded. Sometimes I have to do it anyway because I’m visiting multiple shops. Aldi doesn’t have as much selection for spices as the other grocery stores, and it doesn’t have fake meat, just tofu. I like tofu, but sometimes I really want a treat and I get fake meat. But most of the time I grab a loose trolley in the carpark and bring it in to Aldi. It won’t be an Aldi one because everyone returns those.
I have a very good reason, I ride a bicycle. Unlike a car, I can’t lock my groceries in it when I’ve unloaded my trolley. I don’t feel like risking having my groceries stolen just to return a cart.
I assume then that you leave the cart very near the exit of the store? I don’t think anyone expects you to bring the cart way out into the parking lot just so an employee can go bring it right back. At the exit of the store is easy to grab, doesn’t block parking spaces, and doesn’t risk damaging cars by rolling into them. I’m fairly certain the shopping cart theory is about those who leave carts sitting around the parking lot.
But I’m still cheating. The ALDI carts aren’t designed to be used this way. If it were only Aldi and there were no other carts, I couldn’t do this. The system is still designed in a way incompatible with cycling. They could make it compatible by putting a corral next to the bike rack or a bike rack next to the corral, but they haven’t.