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.
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They have them in Aldis in low crime areas too.
There is an important intermediate grocery buying process that is heavily used by the not so wealthy.
That is going on line at Walmart and putting what you need into a shopping cart and then picking it up outside. This seems to be very popular.
Walmart maintains a list of your purchases so you can easily reorder common stuff. For women who work, they can do most or all of their weekly grocery shopping on line at Walmart while at work.
When my wife was sick and couldn’t get out, she did the shopping on line. I went to pick it all up. You go to one of the spaces call the given number and then the groceries are delivered to your car.
Honestly I’ve never seen a return deposit feature for shopping carts, but then again I’m in a deep red area far from democrat cities where it far more likely people steal shopping carts.
The bagging table thing was weird the first time I went to an Aldi. I’ll buy whole chickens there because they’re cheap and don’t smell like bleach like the cheap Walmart chickens.
Does Walmart charge for this pickup service? I figure they almost have to, considering how many employees are filling up carts for the shoppers who pick up.
Keeps out the riff-raff I suppose.
America has had Aldi for many years, but Aldi is the largest supermarket chain in the world.
And it’s just a method to get the carts returned so they hire less employees. Interesting but not exactly a genius breakthrough.
Tucker comes from money, lives in an exclusive neighborhood, Hunter Biden used to be his neighbor and friend.
Is Aldi’s pushing for self-checkout? I don’t think the chain is in Idaho, but our grocery stores, at least those local to me, are pushing self-checkout in a big way.
Aldi is the largest chain in Europe. Same family ownership as Trader Joe’s.
Therefore a common feature in Europe. All this coin feature does is they don’t need an employee to collect the carts.
If you go to the home page of Aldi there is some 500 stores in the UK alone where the story is from let alone the other countries where they have stores, so yes they are rather common in areas that are not in the USA.
What is noticeable is that they never have a shopping cart mess like other stores, there is only one strip mall in our smaller city in MI that have a couple big boxes and a few other national stores. However some of these stores have pig shoppers who leave their carts in the next spot (often in snow) which you cannot use and are too lazy to put the cart in a caddy 20’ away. At Aldi’s it is just a 25¢ refundable deposit for a short time. We go to their store about once a month just to avoid lazy slobs LOL. One wouldn’t know this unless you have been to one, I stand with Tucker on this!
No, I don’t think so.
Like Amazon Prime, there is a charge for being a member. That is about $14 per month. That allows you to purchase things including groceries on line. I dropped Amazon and now go to Walmart that has vendors that so far can provide what ever I need.
I inadvertently learned that for many items we need, Walmart delivers to my house for no charge. “free delivery” . I generally make one order a week putting stuff in my shopping cart as I think of it. Some items are delivered and some come by mail/Fedex at no charge. If I were to place the order in the morning, the item from the store would be delivered the same day.
The closest Aldi is in Concord, NH, 2-3 hours over bad roads.
I have been to the Aldi store once, 2 hours south of me, soon after it opened maybe 5-10 years ago.
The closest real grocery store of any kind to his place is maybe 15-20 miles away.
Good to know about Walmart. We’ve had Amazon Prime for years, but never have taken advantage of grocery shopping except for things like pet food.
That’s interesting about Tucker and Aldi in Maine, however Moscow is in Europe and Aldi is common in Europe. Tucker didn’t bother to do any research.
Yes,Aldi (a German Supermarket brand) started this.
My husband wouldn’t know either - so the f what.
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