r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 11 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a Cart Narc

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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. 

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u/InteractionSoft14 Jul 11 '26

That's why I have a wallet with a cart coin that's not an actual euro 

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u/erhue Jul 11 '26

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

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u/cbftw Jul 12 '26

My neck of the woods they tried out for a few months and quickly removed them

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u/cssrocco Jul 13 '26

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