Aldi has free carts

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

Sanitized no coin needed. A limited stock of Chinese floppy hats $8, covid compensation I guess.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 7:33:55 PM UTC-5, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Sanitized no coin needed. A limited stock of Chinese floppy hats $8, covid compensation I guess.
>

The last couple of times I've been to Aldi the carts are free and sanitized
before you select one.

[Bruce]

The last time I went to Aldi, you had to put a dollar in the cart and
it wasn't sanitized.

[Hank Rogers]

They saw you coming Fruce!

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 8:23:11 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>
> The last time I went to Aldi, you had to put a dollar in the cart and
> it wasn't sanitized.
>

A dollar?!?! Here, their carts are 25¢ which of course you get back when
you return the cart.

[Dave Smith]

Around here there were only a couple places where you had to put a
deposit on a cart. They were discount grocery stores in the skid part of
the city. I have only been to one of those in the last year or so and
they gave up on it.

[Bruce]

A one or two dollar piece. You get it back here too, but if it was
only 25 cents, people wouldn't care much about returning the carts, I
don't think.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 9:19:43 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Around here there were only a couple places where you had to put a
> deposit on a cart. They were discount grocery stores in the skid part of
> the city. I have only been to one of those in the last year or so and
> they gave up on it.
>

It is a discount grocery store started by the brother of the guy who started
Trader Joe's but they are not located in the skid parts of town. You better
bring your own bags, too, as they charge for those.

[Cindy Hamilton]

You know Americans are tight with money.

Although we have a one-dollar piece, there aren't that many in circulation.
Almost everybody uses paper money for $1 on up.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

On Tue, 12 May 2020 03:04:06 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
<angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 10:34:30 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 May 2020 19:11:58 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 8:23:11 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The last time I went to Aldi, you had to put a dollar in the cart and
>> >> it wasn't sanitized.
>> >>
>> >A dollar?!?! Here, their carts are 25¢ which of course you get back when
>> >you return the cart.
>>
>> A one or two dollar piece. You get it back here too, but if it was
>> only 25 cents, people wouldn't care much about returning the carts, I
>> don't think.
>
>You know Americans are tight with money.

I know from reading this group.

[Gary]

"itsjoan...@webtv.net" wrote:
> The last couple of times I've been to Aldi the carts are free and sanitized
> before you select one.

Same with my usual grocery store.

[jmcquown]

I've never shopped at an Aldi store (none near me) but the carts at my
usual grocery stores are sanitized and don't cost anything to use. No
one around here runs of with a shopping cart.

Chinese floppy hats? WTF?

Jill

[Bruce]

On Tue, 12 May 2020 11:08:16 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

I don't think it's to prevent theft but to prevent the carts from
being left all over the place. By the way, you get your coin back, so
they're free to use.

>Chinese floppy hats? WTF?

They clearly don't help against corona.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Tue, 12 May 2020 11:08:16 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Tops Market here steam cleans their carts constantly, but they always
have.

[Hank Rogers]

It's the finest store in the universe Popeye. But it's difficult to
use the carts while they are "constantly" being steamed.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 10:08:23 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>
> I've never shopped at an Aldi store (none near me) but the carts at my
> usual grocery stores are sanitized and don't cost anything to use. No
> one around here runs of with a shopping cart.
>

> Jill
>
They're free at all the other grocery stores here as well. The 25¢ charge is
to ensure you will return the cart to the front of the store. It keeps them
from having someone rounding up carts from all over the parking lot.

I see homeless folks pushing shopping carts they've stolen full of junk quite
often. Kroger has a wheel-lock on their carts that corresponds with a buried
sensor running the perimeter of their lot. Get too close to it while unloading
your groceries and the wheels lock up. Guess how I found out? >:o(

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

Aldi puts out all kinds of limited items. The hats are cheap safari style.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

No outside bags were allowed by the cart consieurge.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 6:33:13 PM UTC-5, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> No outside bags were allowed by the cart consieurge.
>

Where is this?? Everybody here brings their own bags and I go in with mine
all the time. I don't want to buy any bags there and I don't want to bring
home any purchases in the boxes and box bottoms they have an abundance of.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

Chicago suburbs. Lady said no outside bags. I kept mine in car and filled them from the cart

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 7:27:43 PM UTC-5, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Chicago suburbs. Lady said no outside bags. I kept mine in car and filled them from the cart
>

Who was this lady? I'd been calling corporate headquarters.

[Nellie]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 6:33:13 PM UTC-5, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> No outside bags were allowed by the cart consieurge.

> Joan asked:

Where is this?? Everybody here brings their own bags and I go in with mine
all the time. I don't want to buy any bags there and I don't want to bring
home any purchases in the boxes and box bottoms they have an abundance of

Here in the SFBA most stores are not allowing
you to bring your own bags. The fact that they
continued to charge for the stores ones set off
a huge furor and a few stopped charging and
some just stopped giving bags at all. So you need
to put your items back in your cart and deal with
them at your car.
That’s the breaks, lol,

Nellie

[Bruce]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 17:52:04 -0700 (PDT), Nellie
<julie...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 6:33:13 PM UTC-5, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> No outside bags were allowed by the cart consieurge.
>> Joan asked:
>Where is this?? Everybody here brings their own bags and I go in with mine
>all the time. I don't want to buy any bags there and I don't want to bring
>home any purchases in the boxes and box bottoms they have an abundance of
>
>Here in the SFBA most stores are not allowing
>you to bring your own bags. The fact that they
>continued to charge for the stores ones set off
>a huge furor

How to upset an American.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 7:52:08 PM UTC-5, Nellie wrote:
>
> Here in the SFBA most stores are not allowing
> you to bring your own bags. The fact that they
> continued to charge for the stores ones set off
> a huge furor and a few stopped charging and
> some just stopped giving bags at all. So you need
> to put your items back in your cart and deal with
> them at your car.
> That’s the breaks, lol,
>
> Nellie
>

It sounds like a little power went to the managers head.

[Nellie]

n Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 7:52:08 PM UTC-5, Nellie wrote:
>
> Here in the SFBA most stores are not allowing
> you to bring your own bags. The fact that they
> continued to charge for the stores ones set off
> a huge furor and a few stopped charging and
> some just stopped giving bags at all. So you need
> to put your items back in your cart and deal with
> them at your car.
> That’s the breaks, lol,
>
> Nellie
>

Joan said:
It sounds like a little power went to the managers head.

Here though it’s set by corporate that is
taking orders from higher up (county regs
maybe)
I imagine Chicago is the same

Nellie

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 7:59:00 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>
> How to upset an American.
>

It would upset me if I were not allowed to bring my own bags but yet you
wanted to charge me for yours. I'm not sure how they think the bags were
a health threat when here, I don't know about other locations, they spray
down each cart as it's returned.

[Bruce]

Sure, but a "furor"?

[Hank Rogers]

Relax, and take a deep whiff Gruce.

[Nellie]

e quoted text -

Bruce said:
Sure, but a "furor"?

Well it was a minor furor. Stores hadn’t switched
gears and checkers hasn’t been told so were
still charging. On our local FB group and on
Nextdoor, there was outrage 😂

Nellie

[Dave Smith]

They are a little inconsistent around here. A couple grocery stores
won't let you bring your own bags in. One in town will let you bring
them in and use them but you have to pack them yourself.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 10:32:45 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> They are a little inconsistent around here. A couple grocery stores
> won't let you bring your own bags in. One in town will let you bring
> them in and use them but you have to pack them yourself.
>

It would not bother me to pack my own groceries as I frequently do it
anyway.

[Ophelia]

"Nellie" wrote in message
news:c740599e-97c4-4b98...@googlegroups.com...

===

We are doing that anyway atm. D. wipes the packages down with an
antiseptic cloth before he puts in them into the bags in the car.

We try not to buy anything that isn't in a package.



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[Cindy Hamilton]

I don't shop at Aldi, but the grocery stores around here stopped letting
people use their own bags some time in March, because of the contamination
possibility.

Cindy Hamilton

[Gary]

Ophelia wrote:
>
> D. wipes the packages down with an
> antiseptic cloth before he puts in them into the bags in the car.
>
> We try not to buy anything that isn't in a package.

I always buy loose produce so I can pick and choose.
Those, you can just wash off in fresh water. Most people
do that anyway even before the virus mess.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 17:27:39 -0700 (PDT), jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:

>Chicago suburbs. Lady said no outside bags. I kept mine in car and filled them from the cart

I do that often because I forget to bring my bags into the store.

[jmcquown]

Yep!

Jill

[GM]

This is per Target, other stores in Chicagoland have similar, too:

"Effective March 26, and until further notice, Target stores will stop handling guest-supplied reusable bags out of an abundance of caution. Our team members are bagging items in a Target-supplied paper or plastic bag, and we’re waiving any local bag fees. If a guest brings in a reusable bag, they can choose to bag their items themselves..."

Just received an Amazon Fresh grocery delivery, they've switched from paper bags to sealed plastic bags for all non - refrigerated items (cold items always in insulated plastic bags)...

--
Best
Greg

[Dave Smith]

Depends on the produce for me. I will buy bags of potatoes, carrots and
onions and risk having some less than prime product because they are so
much cheaper. A 10 lb bag of potatoes is usually about the same price
as 2 lb from the bulk bin.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 5:23:52 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> I don't shop at Aldi, but the grocery stores around here stopped letting
> people use their own bags some time in March, because of the contamination
> possibility.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem with bringing your own bags.
ALL the stores around here spray down the entire cart when it's returned
to the store. I've yet to see anyone prowl in someone's bag in their
cart if they're afraid the bag might be contaminated.

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:

>
> Gary wrote:
> > I always buy loose produce so I can pick and choose.
> > Those, you can just wash off in fresh water. Most people
> > do that anyway even before the virus mess.
> >
> Yep!

Thank you, Jill.
So nice to post something for once and not have
someone here argue.

I went to the grocery store this morning. First trip in
15 days. It was time to go. I even scored a package of TP.
Only 2 left. A bit expensive but it was time. My old stash
was running low after 3 months. Who would have ever guessed
that TP would be an item to disappear for so long?

As for produce, I bought a large beefsteak tomato. Not
fresh from a garden but it looks very nice.

Then I also bought 5 kiwi fruits (20 cents each). I like
those occasionally.

[Gary]

Dave Smith wrote:

>
> Gary wrote:
> > I always buy loose produce so I can pick and choose.
> > Those, you can just wash off in fresh water. Most people
> > do that anyway even before the virus mess.
> >
>
> Depends on the produce for me. I will buy bags of potatoes, carrots and
> onions and risk having some less than prime product because they are so
> much cheaper. A 10 lb bag of potatoes is usually about the same price
> as 2 lb from the bulk bin.

I do the same with potatoes, carrots and onions.
And those bags always seem to contain good everything.

I usually buy a 5lb bag of potatoes, a 3lb bag of onions,
and a 2lb bag of carrots (carrots always 99 cents a bag).
Most any other produce, I'll buy individually.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Fri, 15 May 2020 10:03:36 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

I've always washed all produce before it goes in the fridge,
especially citrus, the rind is covered with insecticide... have you
ever seen organic citrus sold, I haven't.

[Cindy Hamilton]

If someone brings in a contaminated bag, it can contaminate whatever
it touches. My regular store has a carousel at next to the cashier,
and it would be extremely difficult for a customer to bag their own.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnGFaa3O28>

Especially since they put up plastic guards between the customer and
the cashier.

We have a bottle-deposit law here, and they aren't accepting any bottle
returns, either.

Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

Yes, my grocery store has organic citrus.

Cindy Hamilton

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 12:17:17 PM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 11:39:04 AM UTC-4, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem with bringing your own bags.
> > ALL the stores around here spray down the entire cart when it's returned
> > to the store. I've yet to see anyone prowl in someone's bag in their
> > cart if they're afraid the bag might be contaminated.
>
> If someone brings in a contaminated bag, it can contaminate whatever
> it touches. My regular store has a carousel at next to the cashier,
> and it would be extremely difficult for a customer to bag their own.
>
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnGFaa3O28>
>

Yes, Walmart has those but none of the grocery stores around here do. And
if their bags are contaminated, then the person is as well whether they bring
their own bags or not.

>
> Especially since they put up plastic guards between the customer and
> the cashier.
>

Yes, they're here as well. Even JoAnn Fabrics has the plastic guards.

>
> We have a bottle-deposit law here, and they aren't accepting any bottle
> returns, either.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

No deposit law here and I haven't seen any returnable bottles in 30+ years.

[U.S. Janet B.]

Costco does not allow the check out personnel to handle your bags in
any way. That's because your bags may be contaminated. They will
box your purchases in their boxes. Stores are doing their best to
avoid sharing the virus. We all need to do our part.
Janet US

[Dave Smith]

I think that it is a matter of them trying to control the situation.
Their bags have been in storage and not touched with bare hands. The
clean all the surfaces frequently. They don't know where you bags have
been or who has been touching them. As I mentioned before, some stores
will let you bring your bags but you have to pack them yourself. Others
won't even let you bring them into the store.

[Dave Smith]

Around here we pay deposit on wine, beer and liquor bottles. They are
returned to The Beer Store, but they were not accepting them for a
while. Last month they had one Beer Store in the region accepting them.
PITA has to take two bins of empties and wait inline for half an hour
to get back $5-6. Some charity A lot of people were just dropping them
at had a spot marked off for people to drop them off and the proceeds
going to the charity. I think most people looking at the line figured
there was no way they would wait for a couple bucks.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

There goes my road trip to Michigan to redeem cans. Does Michigan have automated "can atms" ?

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-05-15 2:16 p.m., jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
> There goes my road trip to Michigan to redeem cans. Does Michigan have automated "can atms" ?
>

Thinking back to a Seinfeld episode where they used Newman's mail truck
to take empties from NY to another state to collect the deposit.

[Bruce]

On Fri, 15 May 2020 11:45:58 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> Gary wrote:
>> > I always buy loose produce so I can pick and choose.
>> > Those, you can just wash off in fresh water. Most people
>> > do that anyway even before the virus mess.
>> >
>> Yep!
>
>Thank you, Jill.
>So nice to post something for once and not have
>someone here argue.

lol, I hear a tiny violin in the background.

[Gary]

lol. You've got to admit though, Bruce. Someone actually
agreeing here vs arguing is quite rare in this ng. heheh

[Bruce]

I guess it's more tempting to post when you disagree than when you
agree. But I agree with what you just said.

[Ophelia]

"Gary" wrote in message news:5EBEDF69...@att.net...

===

I don't????

[Cindy Hamilton]

I drink so little beer (I think I drank two at home in 2019) that I just
recycle the bottles rather than return them for the deposit. An extra dime
added to the price of a bottle of beer isn't worth the effort.


Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 2:16:08 PM UTC-4, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
> There goes my road trip to Michigan to redeem cans. Does Michigan have automated "can atms" ?

Not so far as I know. Large stores have a machine into which you insert
your bottles or cans, but you get a receipt that you redeem at the checkout.
At small stores you just hand over your bottles or cans to the clerk and
he gives you the money.

Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

We pay deposit on wine and liquor bottles too.

[Dave Smith]

For a long time here in Ontario beer was sold at the Brewers Retail, a
consortium owned by the major breweries. It is now called The Beer
Store. Wine and liquor was sold by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario
(LCBO). As the wine industry grew, wineries started selling their own
products and wine consortiums formed retail outlets that sell wine in
grocery stores and standalone stores. Now they are starting to sell beer
and wine in grocery stores and beer,wine and liquor in convenience
stores. The Beer Store is the only one that takes the empties and pays
back the deposit.

I can't see that being sustained much longer. The Beer Store's bread
and butter is beer sales, but they are losing that to the LCBO, grocery
stores and corner stores. If I ran the world, every store selling beer,
wine and liquor and collecting the deposit money would be required to
take the empties.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

If those machines are open, then a road trip is possible unless they check state Id's.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

Yup, Aldi Headquarters is 20 miles away in Batavia IL.

[cshenk]

Thats about right for here too.

[cshenk]

Wanna bet we start seeing more bagged produce?

[cshenk]

I think in that setup, it would be very easy.

At Harris Teeters, they have a round turn table that spins (has a
control at the upper leg to make it spin). We generally bag our own as
we can bag as fast as they can ring up. Been doing that for years. Don
(used to be Charlotte) would get a second cart for loading at the foot
of the station then when the extra cart was mostly full he takes it out
to the car and starts loading while I finish up and bring the second
cart out.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Only carbonated beverages here. The purpose was to reduce roadside
litter, and it was remarkably effective. Although I think we need
deposits on bottled water nowadays.

Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 6:59:41 PM UTC-4, jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
> If those machines are open, then a road trip is possible unless they check state Id's.

They don't check state Ids, but the machines are blocked off now. They don't
want their employees handling the containers.

Cindy Hamilton

[Sheldon Martin]

Bottled water needs to be outlawed, use refillable bottles.
We like the 32 oz size... choose your color:
https://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-1643001075-Eddy-Charcoal-75L/dp/B07HGR3S4C/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=camelbak%2Beddy&qid=1589631665&sr=8-1-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFNNERQN1MxVlZSQ1YmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAzMDQ1MjczMEVFU005MDEzOFFXJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAzODE2NzYyUUVUR0RVUDRMSjdGJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ&th=1
Naturally we fill with UV sterilized RO water.

[Dave Smith]

Growing up in the 50s I remember a lot of broken glass everywhere. Cans
were rare and people would toss bottles anywhere and everywhere. We used
to get a lot of money for candy by returning bottles we found. Despite
the fact that drinking and driving has been illegal for years there are
still lots of beer, wine and liquor bottles laying on the side of roads.
Water bottles and togo coffee cups are the main litter.

[Gary]

cshenk wrote:
>
> At Harris Teeters, they have a round turn table that spins (has a
> control at the upper leg to make it spin). We generally bag our own as
> we can bag as fast as they can ring up. Been doing that for years. Don
> (used to be Charlotte) would get a second cart for loading at the foot
> of the station then when the extra cart was mostly full he takes it out
> to the car and starts loading while I finish up and bring the second
> cart out.

Interesting. I mostly shop at the Harris Teeter at the beach,
the closest to the ocean grocery store in all of Virginia.
Only 2 blocks from the atlantic ocean.

Here, you leave your cart on the cashier side. They do all
scanning, bagging. You just let them do it all then pay.
You don't even have the option of helping them.

That's new to me. Most stores, you put your groceries on a
conveyor belt and can help bag too.

[jgro...@hotmail.com]

If the cart was 25 cents CAN, would Canadians steal them?