amazed by futuristic Russian shopping trolley technology
https://x.com/chrissteinplays/status/1758180518535799296
Fantastic tech advancement! Guess who hasn't been in an airport anytime in the last 40 years? pic.twitter.com/83WVFmXIXM
— Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ (@chrissteinplays) February 15, 2024
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the frick LOL dont they have this in burgerland? we already had this since when we were using the now obsolete series of coins lol
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Aldi (a very low cost/discount sort of grocer) does it with quarters but most Americans don't want to have to bother bringing a quarter with them. Remember most people just use credit or debit cards for all shopping.
Lots of places, especially in cities, have geogated wheel locks on the carts though. So if you steal the cart, the wheels lock up. I guess you could still steal it for scrap and maybe you can hack them but it does a decent job at stopping the homeless from taking them.
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lol that sounds high tech but excessive if it's a costly solution
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We have those too because people don't have cars and steal carts to bring groceries home.
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I used to work in a supermarket that had these and I hated them, they'd just randomly lock up every now and then if you were on the edge of the carpark and you'd have to go and get a handset to unstick them
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The supermarket near my college had these.
Everyone just picked the trolleys up and carried them until they got clear of the transmitter.
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They're not set to block if they don't get the signal?
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Nah, there was just a 'barrier' across the walkway exits and it's really weak so it didn't work unless the wheels passed right over it.
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Just pick it up smh
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Most of them work like those "invisible" dog fences, not gps or anything too expensive.
Saving a few carts a month would probably cover the cost.
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It's not that expensive and the US is a very rich country.
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fair enough
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My local store has a very advanced solution: the sidewalk in front of the store has bollards that your cart won't fit through.
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but sometimes you'd need to take your groceries to the car lol
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The area in front of the store, past the sidewalk, is a loading zone.
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You can just unlock the system with something that fits. But even people who do that return the carts here in Germany.
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I've spent a lot of time there and you should see the absolute state of their supermarket car parks. People take their shopping cart back to the car, unload it, then just leave it in the parking space next to them. Every walmart is littered with a hundred abandoned carts, many within just a few meters of the cart return thing. Felt like being in the third world.
Countries kind of OK other than that though.
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well i guess if it's not a thing there then it's understandable that
was surprised lol
it's just that it's been a thing here since forever so it was
to see his shock
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The coin deposit for your cart thing exists in the UK too but it's only really used in places where blacks go or where it's kind of unfeasible for employees to collect carts. Almost all supermarkets or shopping places just let you take the carts... yet people here don't litter the car parks with them. They take them back
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This guy is so based, he makes people so fricking angry
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Red pill me?
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Idk I forgot what his channel called but he records himself calling out ppl who don't put their carts away and puts magnet that says "inconsiderate" or something on their car. It's hilarious
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Cant wait until someone shoots him.
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Most Burgers would be surprised at anything since they never leave their country due to not having vacation or money to travel.
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Why the frick would anyone want to leave America. Best country, most freedom. Europe is all stabbings, thieves, cute twinks and male feminists. No reason to go there
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I mean we can go on...
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We have shootings here, not stabbings. Had to duck behind the counter earlier this week at a bar because someone started blasting outside lmao
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Who the frick cares about cities?
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Homeless and rowdies would just keep stealing them for the price of a nickel, so the big attempt now is the carts that have the electronic wheel locks when you leave the parking lot. I thought someone posted here once some reddit or Twitter thread with the hostile architecture types complaining that the locks were inhumane and a waste money making groceries more expensive.
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You'd need just one or two wagies to clear that tho Walmart can't hire that many
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The only place I've seen it in burgerland is Aldi. Most other stores are the wild wild west.
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!eurochads
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lmfao now it all makes sense
I used to think that cart narc guy was a bit of a cute twink but if they dont have this then it probably is a shitshow in burgerland with trolleys everywhere
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lmfao yah
it all makes sense now
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No, because the headlines would end up being "Study shows minorities disproportionately charged for using shopping carts"
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But you get the coin back when you return the cart….
Here's how it looks like at one of the supermarkets I'm coincidentally at
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Study shows minorities disproportionately charged for using shopping carts
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I guess they'll spin it like voter ids where minorities are too silly to know how to use it properly
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Our german supermarkets work the same. Aldi (German discounter) expanded to the US and even brought the system with them. So some of it exists in burgerland.
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Only at Aldis which are rare (because Germans invented this technology) so no, this is not how shopping in Burgerland works.
You can't just go around locking things up and asking for 25 cents.
That's racist and violence towards poor people.
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Aldi is my favorite store. Theres rarely many people there, I don't have too many options, and its about half as expensive as kroger. We have a local butcher right down the street, so we just get our meat there.
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Burgers fear bagging their own groceries due to the amount of effort it takes.
Most of them have a heart attack when they see how fast Aldi cashiers scan their items.
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I love it so much. I'm in and out in like 20 minutes. I dont get lost searching for some weird niche item that they move around the store every 2 weeks. I will be brand loyal to Aldis forever. The one thing the germans didnt over engineer.
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Also, we rarely carry coins around with us anymore. And it would be annoying to think I need physical quarters every time I go grocery shopping. Wagies can go get the carts if ppl leave them
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Blacks would steal them too get the coin
Trans lives matter not
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yea in denmark we never carry cash. utually go to the register before i shop and ask for a similar iron trinket, or just 10-20 DKK money so i can put it in the cart. never had any issue, wonderful to live in a high trust society
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The elites can be amazingly out of touch
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