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The shopping cart is the ultimate test of a good person
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I wonder why that is. I mean that location-based brake must be way more expensive than those simple mechanical coin deposit slots.
If you don't know, the carts are chained together and you can only remove one when you put in €1 or so, and you only get that back when you chain the cart back in - it's not perfect, but good enough. Turns out people are very much willing to walk a few metres to get that back.
My guess is that American stores don't want to inconvenience their customers. The fear of losing even .01% because of introducing a system like that.
I can't really reply to your much appreciated homelessness rant; probably because I have never seen it as bad as it seems to be in at least some places in the USA. My empathy though.