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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

In Germany, shopping carts typically have a deposit system, where you have to insert an Euro into the cart to use it, which you get back when you return it. So that is basically a build in fine for not returning it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is how it works in all of Europe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The past year or two I've found several stores where they are abandoning it. I presume because people carrying cash, especially coins, is becoming rarer and they don't want to inconvenience their customers?

Strangely enough, carts still get returned even at these stores.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, me too. This only seems to be a problem across the pond.

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