Posted on 02/17/2024 3:28:04 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson aired a video of him at a Russian grocery store, appearing to fawn over everything from the shopping cart mechanism to the price of groceries - skipping over the part where US dollars stretch a lot farther than the ruble.
In the video, Carlson was amazed to see that the shopping carts in front of the supermarket required people to put in a ruble coin, which they'd then get back when the cart was returned.
Carlson acted like he'd never seen this feature before - despite it being pretty common across the US and most of Europe.
He then explained to his audience how it works, quipping, "There's an incentive to return it... and not just take it to your homeless encampment."
He was quickly criticized for the comment about the shopping carts, and users on X made fun of him for looking like he'd never been in a store before.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
The UK’s Deep State enemedia appears to have a mad-on for Carlson, too, doesn’t it...
Aldis does this and has stores in a number of US metro areas.
One was built bear me a few years ago. Neighborhood it is near fought like the devil to prevent it from being built but it finally went through.
They will attack him over anything they can find. Or they will make it up. He doesn’t support their party line so must be destroyed.
I have never had to pay a deposit to use a shopping cart.
I have never seen this in the U.S. Granted, I've never been to SD, ND, ID, NE, WA or IA. Maybe it's a thing in semirhomboidal states.
Hellooooooooo. Aldi’s, anyone?
Don’t give them the ammo.
Aldi does it so they don’t have to hire people to collect the carts from the parking lot and bring back to the store.
It was an ugly story but fake.
During a photo opportunity at a 1992 grocers’ convention, President George Bush was “amazed” at encountering supermarket scanners for the first time.
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“Then the details of the story started to dribble out. Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bush-scanner-demonstration/
Aldi is not in Russia.
Zimbabwe has a trillion dollar bill. Does that make them wealthy?
What about the Weimar Republic. It took a barrel of money to get a loaf of bread.
More money does not equall more wealth.
It means inflation and depreciation of the dollar.
No you just don’t understand basic economics.
Zimbabwe has a trillion dollar bill. Does that make them wealthy?
What about the Weimar Republic. It took a barrel of money to get a loaf of bread.
More money does not equall more wealth.
It means inflation and depreciation of the dollar.
Aldi uses them but no one else that i know of.
No that’s not true.
The market does not work that way.
It’s not based on people’s salaries.
The price of gold is not cheaper in poorer countries. It stays the same.
What you clearly missed is the depreciation of the dollar and global trade.
I have never seen that feature either. Must be popular in only certain parts of the US
I, for one, have never seen or heard of it.
Well guess I’ve hear all the important Karen News for the day………
“He should ask the cashiers how long they work per day and what their salaries are before spending too much time talking about affordability.”
But those two factors don’t affect the cost of food.
It is the same here, those factors don’t control the price of food; food monopolies do.
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