It's really common in Canada (at least in BC, where I'm from) for grocery stores and other stores that provide shopping carts to require a $1 deposit to use the cart. When you return it to the cart corral, your looney is returned to you. So it's a refundable deposit, not a payment. The grocery store Aldi here in northern Virginia also does this but you need a quarter not a dollar. Having said all that, the Walmart sign pictured in the OP doesn't say it's a deposit, so maybe it isn't. They're saving money by laying off their cart collecting people.
As an European, are you telling me that only now in 2023 you have to use a coin to use a shopping cart? Now I understand the videos of parking vigilantes chasing people who let the carts everywhere
samfreez on February 25th, 2023 at 00:16 UTC »
All this means is you have to pay $1 for the cart, but you get that $1 back when you return it yourself.
Since it's in Canada, $1 is a coin, and those machines have been around forever in the US, though typically only for quarters.
LaceyBloomers on February 25th, 2023 at 00:17 UTC »
It's really common in Canada (at least in BC, where I'm from) for grocery stores and other stores that provide shopping carts to require a $1 deposit to use the cart. When you return it to the cart corral, your looney is returned to you. So it's a refundable deposit, not a payment. The grocery store Aldi here in northern Virginia also does this but you need a quarter not a dollar. Having said all that, the Walmart sign pictured in the OP doesn't say it's a deposit, so maybe it isn't. They're saving money by laying off their cart collecting people.
javardo on February 25th, 2023 at 01:17 UTC »
As an European, are you telling me that only now in 2023 you have to use a coin to use a shopping cart? Now I understand the videos of parking vigilantes chasing people who let the carts everywhere