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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. For a lot of people a quarter is nothing and worth tossing for the convenience of not being a decent person.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah for me the real value here is where the hell am I going to get another quarter. I use my phone to pay and don’t carry cash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Whenever I go to Aldi (US) there's usually at least a couple carts with quarters left in the parking lot so I just put them back. The quarters pile up in my car until I eventually bring them inside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Fine, they can subsidize the cart retrieval employee cost.

Also I discussed this with someone in the UK once and they pay an entire pound for a cart… we do quarters because it’s the largest denomination common coin in the US.