You have to pay a quarter for a shopping carriage!!! What a racket.
Is human compassion dead or dying where you live?
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tbeltrans
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Aldi's charges a quarter for a shopping cart. They are attached to each other with a lock that inserting a quarter releases. Most people, when leaving the store, will give somebody coming, their cart to save a quarter. We have started bringing in our own shopping bags so we don't need a cart since we only buy a few items there.You have to pay a quarter for a shopping carriage!!! What a racket.
Tony
That’s not much. Don’t forget it’s Canadian money. Lol. In the cities it’s usually a loonie which is a dollar but I’ll happily pay 25 cents and live near nice people than free carts and live around nasty ones.You have to pay a quarter for a shopping carriage!!! What a racket.
That’s exactly what happens here which I think is really sweet.
About the tripping and falling ...... none of us really plan to.
And don't you get your $.25 back when you return the cart to the corral? When I shopped at Aldis and someone offered me a cart, I always handed them my quarter and thanked them for saving me the hassle of working the gate. I thought everyone did.
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Judycat
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I become irritated by the pettiness of people, but when someone needs help, many still offer to do something.
hollydolly
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I do but then it costs us much more than a quarter..it costs us a whole pound!!About the tripping and falling ...... none of us really plan to.
And don't you get your $.25 back when you return the cart to the corral? When I shopped at Aldis and someone offered me a cart, I always handed them my quarter and thanked them for saving me the hassle of working the gate. I thought everyone did.
tbeltrans
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You do get your quarter back, but to me it is a bit of a hassle because I don't usually carry change. I started carrying two quarters in my wallet where cards are stored so that I would always have a quarter when stopping at Aldi's. It is nice how people do cooperate by sharing carts. When I have offered such a person a quarter, s/he will usually turn it down, saying to pay it forward to the next person.About the tripping and falling ...... none of us really plan to.
And don't you get your $.25 back when you return the cart to the corral? When I shopped at Aldis and someone offered me a cart, I always handed them my quarter and thanked them for saving me the hassle of working the gate. I thought everyone did.
If I were single, I would plan my meals around what Aldi's stocks to save having to go to more than one store for groceries. Since there are two of us, we mostly go to the larger store that has what my wife wants, and occasionally go to Aldi's. I like the specials that Aldi's gets in. Nobody else carries some of those unique food items.
Tony
Jules
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It’s a ‘rental’ fee rather than ’pay’. As soon as you return the cart to the stall, you get your money back. It keeps carts from being left all over the parking lot.You have to pay a quarter for a shopping carriage!!! What a racket.
With Covid, I won’t use a cart from someone else because it hasn’t been sanitized.
A couple of places have removed the ‘fee’ for now.
I see a society... a world, where people have lost a lot of ground in the way of respect for others.
I'm one of the younger ones on this forum, born in 1963, but nevertheless, I remember the way it used to be, and it sure puts to shame what I'm witnessing today.
My mom and dad were poor, and I remember my dad phoning around to ask those he knew for a favour, which I know killed my dad inside, because it broke his pride, but with no money to afford a pickup truck to haul yard waste off, what was my dad to do. People came running, because they knew if they ever needed help and asked my dad, my dad would have been there for them.
Many jobs I recall were hinged on favours... a concrete basement pour, neighbours would be at your door early Saturday morning to get started, and then over the course of coming months, you stepped up to the plate and offered whatever help you could as payback to them. That's the way it worked back in the day, people worked off a barter system.
Same for when I was really young, there wasn't a neighbourhood door I was afraid to knock on for help if I needed it, and they would have been there for me and/or my siblings.
People knew everyone, and that changed the dynamics of how people got along and how close they were with one another.
Dear husband and I were younger... the early years when we were just starting out, and it was Christmas time. Our vehicle had broken down and dear husband was sitting in a bus depot waiting to catch a Greyhound bus. The floors were wet and a handicapped man slipped and fell. Down he went my husband told me, his cane went flying, his glassed got broken, and this poor man laying on the floor flat on his back, and my husband said no one got up to help other than my husband and an elderly lady. That was back in the early 90's.
Then came the evening when hubby and I were walking back to our car after having supper out with family. Directly across the street from us an older woman tripped and fell. She hit the sidewalk with a lot of force, and without a lost second, dear hubby bolted across the street and was over helping her up.
She started crying and that crushed me. She looked so nice all dressed up, so proud, and now one knee of hers was torn open, her nylons torn, and I think she was more embarrassed over the fall than anything. We stayed with her and comforted her, even asked if we could take her to the hospital.
Sure, there's good people still left in this world, but what a rarity they are. People nowadays would rather step over you than reach down and help you up.
Human compassion isn't just dying, it's dead, and it's dead everywhere. I harvest very little respect for people (in general) nowadays. We've lost our way as a civilization.
I believe there are "invisible barriers" at one mall supermarket where we shop. It stops people from stealing their carts, which I assume are quite costly to replace. The wheels lock if one tries to go beyond a specific area. You'd be surprised how often we see people pushing these carts around the city.
That's why some supermarkets increased the use from a loonie (one dollar coin) to a toonie (two dollar coin).
That's why some supermarkets increased the use from a loonie (one dollar coin) to a toonie (two dollar coin).
Yes, compassion has been dying for some time, but Covid made it worse.
1. After 53 years of driving without an accident, I've had two since December. One was deliberate; he bumped me from behind after honking & yelling while I waited for pedestrians to cross in front of me.
2. A jerk in front of me stops & pulls to the right next to the curb. I didn't know if he was going to make an illegal U-turn, so I didn't want to pass him on the left. After waiting for a few seconds & noticing he was looking down (probably at his phone), I started to pass & he whips his car around & slams into me....in front of a "No Left Turn" sign. Then my insurance company says it was my fault - so they have an excuse to raise my rates. After a few choice words, I told them, "Goodbye."
3. Family can be even worse (at least in my case). A few months ago, my sister & I both got colds. My idiot nephew (who I've always treated more like a son since his parents' divorce) blamed me for giving his mother my cold. I asked him how he knows his mother didn't give me her cold? He said I was "reckless" because I go for walks in a park & have 4 people at my house for diabetes support group meetings & bring food to elderly friends when they couldn't get to the market at the beginning of Covid. I reminded him his wife & 2 kids shop frequently at a crowded (Costco) & I told him he was a complete a--h--- & he should stay away from me & I don't ever want to speak to him again; I don't need the stress.
1. After 53 years of driving without an accident, I've had two since December. One was deliberate; he bumped me from behind after honking & yelling while I waited for pedestrians to cross in front of me.
2. A jerk in front of me stops & pulls to the right next to the curb. I didn't know if he was going to make an illegal U-turn, so I didn't want to pass him on the left. After waiting for a few seconds & noticing he was looking down (probably at his phone), I started to pass & he whips his car around & slams into me....in front of a "No Left Turn" sign. Then my insurance company says it was my fault - so they have an excuse to raise my rates. After a few choice words, I told them, "Goodbye."
3. Family can be even worse (at least in my case). A few months ago, my sister & I both got colds. My idiot nephew (who I've always treated more like a son since his parents' divorce) blamed me for giving his mother my cold. I asked him how he knows his mother didn't give me her cold? He said I was "reckless" because I go for walks in a park & have 4 people at my house for diabetes support group meetings & bring food to elderly friends when they couldn't get to the market at the beginning of Covid. I reminded him his wife & 2 kids shop frequently at a crowded (Costco) & I told him he was a complete a--h--- & he should stay away from me & I don't ever want to speak to him again; I don't need the stress.
Ah.....now I know where the term "Loonie Tune" comes from.
hollydolly
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we have those same invisible barriers in the few supermarkets who don't charge for the trolleys ..but the trolleys are all abandoned at the barriers and not returned to the corral
The winter of 1946/47 here in the UK, there was no such thing as central heating, and coal (even if you could afford it) was hard to get hold of because the coal-men couldn't get the horses and carts out and about because of the deep drifts of snow.
It was common for several neighbors to assemble in one house for warmth and cooking, rather than heat several houses. Gangs of kids from our street had home made sleds and we would scour around the back jiggers (alleys), bomb sites and the rear of factories for anything that would burn, then bring it all back for our parents to put on the fire.
A huge pot of tea was always kept hot by the fire, and taking turns, each of the neighbors would sing a song.
The following day, it would all be repeated in someone else's house.
We had gas lighting in our house, and when it was our turn to host all our neighbors, we made sure we had plenty of foreign coins for the gas meter.
Now that was real camaraderie.
It was common for several neighbors to assemble in one house for warmth and cooking, rather than heat several houses. Gangs of kids from our street had home made sleds and we would scour around the back jiggers (alleys), bomb sites and the rear of factories for anything that would burn, then bring it all back for our parents to put on the fire.
A huge pot of tea was always kept hot by the fire, and taking turns, each of the neighbors would sing a song.
The following day, it would all be repeated in someone else's house.
We had gas lighting in our house, and when it was our turn to host all our neighbors, we made sure we had plenty of foreign coins for the gas meter.
Now that was real camaraderie.
Gaer
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Jon, I remember hearing that the farmers up in Montana RAVED about the "new Deal"; how it saved them.
But when I read what you said, about people being more dependent on government, it really made me think. I know the farmers there were and still are fiercely independent, as were my ancestors. Government handouts were inconcievable.
But what you said about COVID making people dependent on government makes a lot of sense. It IS in the works and we don't even realize it!
Thanks for your thoughtful opinions. You bring up some interesting views!
There was a sad case in Scotland during the
heavy snow last month, an elderly woman fell
in the snow outside her door and couldn't get
up without help, a postman wouldn't help her
to get up, he said that he was too tired! B*****d!
Needless to say that he has been found and suspended.
She lay there for 20 minutes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ded-telling-OAP-knackered-help-fell-snow.html
Mike.
heavy snow last month, an elderly woman fell
in the snow outside her door and couldn't get
up without help, a postman wouldn't help her
to get up, he said that he was too tired! B*****d!
Needless to say that he has been found and suspended.
She lay there for 20 minutes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ded-telling-OAP-knackered-help-fell-snow.html
Mike.
Murrmurr
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I agree! Societal breakdown started long before COVID. And the New Deal turned out to be a bad deal for farming because from that point on, the government could dictate to farmers what crops they "must" raise. You'll find just about all of them on your McDonald's hamburger.
hollydolly
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I remember reading that last week, even heard him say it on someone's video recording, I was furious
Jules
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The nice people became nicer, the jerks became much worse. In the start when there were so many unknowns, strangers were volunteering to grocery shop, etc for those who were housebound.
During our daily walk (we don’t encounter many people), you know the ones who you wouldn’t care to be around. Most people will distance. Every now and then you get the ones who hold their space on the sidewalk.
During our daily walk (we don’t encounter many people), you know the ones who you wouldn’t care to be around. Most people will distance. Every now and then you get the ones who hold their space on the sidewalk.
That incident hollydolly made me embarrassed to be
Scottish, I would have picked her up off the snow and
carried her into her house, if I had been there.
I silently hoped that the postman was not Scottish.
Mike
I think society is gradually (tho with swings back and forth) becoming little bit by little bit more tolerant and considerate, but there is a long way yet to go. When you look back at early photos of the Beatles and remember the shock their "long hair" caused, it is funny now. And when I started work after college, one of my male coworkers had a pony tail and in his annual review he was told it 'wasn't professional', but nowadays even quite conservative men can have a pony tail.
I feel less optimistic about manners, seems like people who don't want to show manners label what they don't want to do 'political correctness', but I think they are feeling culture shock. Culture shock is a horrible feeling, when I lived abroad I developed that and things that originally seemed interestingly different eventually changed to "omg everyone in this town is so stupid, what is wrong with them", it was a relief to come back where things were 'normal', everyone wore the familiar types of footware (yes my culture shock even extended to that, ha ha), and behaved the same way (especially about respecting people's personal bubble of physical space).
I feel less optimistic about manners, seems like people who don't want to show manners label what they don't want to do 'political correctness', but I think they are feeling culture shock. Culture shock is a horrible feeling, when I lived abroad I developed that and things that originally seemed interestingly different eventually changed to "omg everyone in this town is so stupid, what is wrong with them", it was a relief to come back where things were 'normal', everyone wore the familiar types of footware (yes my culture shock even extended to that, ha ha), and behaved the same way (especially about respecting people's personal bubble of physical space).
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hollydolly
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Unfortunately he is Scottish, and the irony is that it was a female Hermes driver who ultimately picked the old woman up 20 minutes later..watch the video..
https://www.scotsman.com/news/peopl...-lying-alone-driveway-snow-after-fall-3132329