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Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 76 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That doesn't mean the concept is flawed; it just means those businesses were smart enough to put in countermeasures against bad people.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It also means that the people who do leave the shopping cart in places without the deposit are the kind of cheapskates who can be bought for a euro. They're only neutral evil.

    True chaotic evil assholes would pay the deposit on several carts only to leave them.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They do this so they don't have to pay staff to return carts, one of many reasons Aldi is so cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    "Cart returner" is not a job. It's a thing regular employees have to do because some folks choose to be lazy. If everybody would return their carts, these employees would simply work on other shit in the store like cleaning or re-arranging misplaced items. Leaving the cart does not create jobs, it makes existing jobs more tedious.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That means there were enough bad people that businesses wanted to purchase a lock token system at the expense of convenience of customers and overhead costs of their businesses

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