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.
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.