funkyab
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having to bag your own groceries, pay for bags and paying a shopping cart deposit is commonplace in many parts of the western world. Even in some of the richer countries such as Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany etc..
Guess it may seem strange if you have never experienced it but really no big deal. I actually learned to prefer bagging my own groceries as i could load them the way i want. 1.99 seems a bit steep for the bag though, unless it was likely the reuseable bag. In all the other bag yourself grocery countries i have lived in the normal "walmart style" bags typically cost between 5 and 10cents (usd).
understand your theoretical argument that you could just take the cart along in your truck for that 25cents you paid. Actually the reason many stores do that is so people return their cart to the cart corral to get their 25cents back (is usually 1 euro or the equivalent of appx. 2 dollars in other countries) in that case they cut the cost of having to pay people to go round up the carts to bring them back in.
it is a uniquely American thing to go to the store and spend 300 dollars on groceries every couple of weeks versus buying a little food every day or so. It was very rarely that i ever used a rolling style shopping cart living in Sweden, Norway, Holland etc...
Aldi and more particularly lidl (another german discount food store) have had constant problems with labor unions especially in sweden die to their hiring practices and working conditions (some have compared them to walmart). Because of this i tried to avoid shopping there in most cases.
Guess it may seem strange if you have never experienced it but really no big deal. I actually learned to prefer bagging my own groceries as i could load them the way i want. 1.99 seems a bit steep for the bag though, unless it was likely the reuseable bag. In all the other bag yourself grocery countries i have lived in the normal "walmart style" bags typically cost between 5 and 10cents (usd).
understand your theoretical argument that you could just take the cart along in your truck for that 25cents you paid. Actually the reason many stores do that is so people return their cart to the cart corral to get their 25cents back (is usually 1 euro or the equivalent of appx. 2 dollars in other countries) in that case they cut the cost of having to pay people to go round up the carts to bring them back in.
it is a uniquely American thing to go to the store and spend 300 dollars on groceries every couple of weeks versus buying a little food every day or so. It was very rarely that i ever used a rolling style shopping cart living in Sweden, Norway, Holland etc...
Aldi and more particularly lidl (another german discount food store) have had constant problems with labor unions especially in sweden die to their hiring practices and working conditions (some have compared them to walmart). Because of this i tried to avoid shopping there in most cases.
