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[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Here's a better idea: draw the outline of half a 2-euro coin, add a "lollipop stick", cut that shape out of 2mm aluminum from the hardware store, and you'll never need a shopping cart token ever again: stick the half-coin into the cart's lock, unlock, twist sideways and retrieve your little tool.

If you're a nice person, unlock 10, 15 or the whole stack of carts for the next shoppers who need a cart and don't have a coin.

It will work if you print it out of PLA, but it won't be as durable and you can break it inside the lock.

[โ€“] x00z@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where I live you can just go get a free token from inside the store. They are metal and you can keep them.

[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you have to go inside, wait in line and ask for a token - if then even have tokens left.

[โ€“] x00z@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait in line? I just go to any register from the side of the exit and ask it.

[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where I live, they only give tokens at the customer helpdesk.

[โ€“] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh that sucks.

[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah fuck the people who work at the store, amirite

[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Depends on where you live.

Where I live, people bring their cart back whether there's a coin in it or not. But the one thing you can count on is that few people carry coins around anymore. Therefore the locks are more of an inconvenience to everybody than a genuine help for the stores to keep their parking lots tidy.

In fact, the store are totally aware of this: I live way up north, and when it gets really cold, the stores unlock all the carts themselves and keep them loose so people don't have to take their gloves off and manipulate freezing cold metallic disks, so they can grab a cart and get inside as fast as possible.

[โ€“] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago

Some of the newer style locks have a tray that you have to sit the coin in and slide the tray in. A bit like the OG PS2 disc tray. So unfortunately this tool isn't universal.

But for the traditional slot on the front style, yeah, that'd be cool.

[โ€“] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Make the handle wider and longer then give it balls

[โ€“] tetris11@feddit.uk 21 points 4 months ago

The one the left looks pretty convincing. If you print that out a few thousand times, that's money in the bank right there

[โ€“] Wilco@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A housekey works in the shopping carts in our area. Just put it in backwards.

[โ€“] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

SAME, sometimes we swap carts and houses. I live with a Moroccan family now. I'm sort of the father figure.

[โ€“] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What in the hell are these even for? Where I live, we just take a cart and go shopping.