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From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
"Robert Bannister" wrote in message
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> On 18/08/13 8:08 AM, David DeLaney wrote:
>> On 2013-08-17, Greg Goss wrote:
>>> "J. Clarke" wrote:
>>>> FWIW, Aldi, which makes a great show of frugality (they rent you
>>>> shopping carts for 25 cents for example to make sure you return them to
>>>> the proper place thus saving them the cost of a cart collector) will
>>>> take debit cards but not credit cards in the US, which suggests that
>>>> debit fees are less than credit fees.
>>>
>>> Almost all supermarkets require a deposit to unlock their carts.
>>
>> ...someone said a little upthread that you're posting from Canada? In the
>> USA
>> I haven't encountered a supermarket yet, that I recall, that does that
>> sort of
>> thing. Some of them even have the little powered-chair-with-basket for
>> their
>> disabled customers, sitting out in small rows for people to use free.
>>
>> Where I _have_ seen something like that is in shopping malls, for those
>> kid-
>> container-mover things that are decorated like fire engines or princess
>> palaces
>> or whatever, to stuff your kid in so they get to "ride" and you get to
>> know
>> where they are instead of having them wander off behind your back.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> These days, they all seem to have kid- or doll-sized shopping trolleys, so
> the toddlers can push theirs alongside you.
Only Bunnings has them here. The kids love them.
Not just toddlers either.
> Now, in addition to keeping your eye on your child or children, you've now
> got to keep checking what they're putting in their trolleys.
Not if you don't bother to check that stuff out.
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