It's surprising to me US carts don't have to be unlocked by a coin (which you get back when you lock your cart again), it's like that in every supermarket I know in France and Germany and probably many other European countries.

You can misbehave but it costs you a little bit, and if you do someone has the opportunity to make a buck off you by cleaning after you.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

In fairness, that's been phased out in many places.

I suspect less out of faith in humanity and more out of the reality that many people don't carry cash, much less change, anymore and they kept annoying the cashiers.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yeah it's hard to justify carrying coins around, they're not worth much, whereas euro coins still carry some value (1€/2€).

When I arrived in NYC a few years ago, I got cash from the ATM and then tried to take a bus to our airbnb in Brooklyn, it was $2.75 per ticket, only payable in coins... like we'd have 44 quarters in our pockets :-)

[–] glomag@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The busses don't take metro card? I've only ever ridden the subway in NYC.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

They do now, that whole OMNY system

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

They probably do (it was 10 years ago) but we had just arrived from the airport and had no idea how it all worked

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