There's a store chain here that has a lock on the carts. You put a quarter in it and it lets one cart go, and then when you are done, everyone takes their own carts back so they can get their quarter back. It's only a quarter, but it works every time, there is NEVER a stray cart anywhere near that place. It's really a very good idea.
DOes anyone else have anything like this near them?
i lived in slovakia for almost my whole life and those are EVERYWHERE...i recently moved to america and was shocked to see you could just take them.
i usually dont use quarters (well in slovakia a euro or 50 cent peice) but slugs, and sometimes if you are a member of a store (like you have that card) you get a free slug with the logo on it and stuff.
just to throw this in, there are no bag boys in slovakia it is uheard of! i always used to start bagging my own stuff and someone would do it for me and it was really weird at first...it makes me think that are americans are lazy. oh and when i first saw one of those machines that give you change here, i yelled 'omg it gives you the change! how does it do that?' and the casheir was looking at me like wtf. haha
The store I'm talking about doesn't bag your things either. And they charge you for bags. You can either buy them, bring your own or you can take their throw-away boxes for free. I like that store.
i call it a cart...lots of european friends i had called it a trolley though.
in slovak we call in it a vozik but i dont know how that would translate lol sorry
What do you call a shopping cart?
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There's a store chain here that has a lock on the carts. You put a quarter in it and it lets one cart go, and then when you are done, everyone takes their own carts back so they can get their quarter back. It's only a quarter, but it works every time, there is NEVER a stray cart anywhere near that place. It's really a very good idea.
DOes anyone else have anything like this near them?
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Virtually all supermarkets here in the UK have that coin system. I've never seen one that doesn't.
i lived in slovakia for almost my whole life and those are EVERYWHERE...i recently moved to america and was shocked to see you could just take them.
i usually dont use quarters (well in slovakia a euro or 50 cent peice) but slugs, and sometimes if you are a member of a store (like you have that card) you get a free slug with the logo on it and stuff.
just to throw this in, there are no bag boys in slovakia it is uheard of! i always used to start bagging my own stuff and someone would do it for me and it was really weird at first...it makes me think that are americans are lazy. oh and when i first saw one of those machines that give you change here, i yelled 'omg it gives you the change! how does it do that?' and the casheir was looking at me like wtf. haha
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The store I'm talking about doesn't bag your things either. And they charge you for bags. You can either buy them, bring your own or you can take their throw-away boxes for free. I like that store.
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oh yeah, you have your bags here too but poeple usually bring their own like material bags...maybe your store is european owned or something
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OK, but what do you call a cart though? Here and in Slovakia? Of course translate the Slovakian term into English, if possible, please!
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i call it a cart...lots of european friends i had called it a trolley though.
in slovak we call in it a vozik but i dont know how that would translate lol sorry
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Google translate says it translates to cart. lol.