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Aldi grocery stores are among my favorite places to shop. I think of it as simplistic shopping. One of the things that is a little different is that you need to make sure that you bring a quarter with you for the grocery cart. Aldi has just a handful of employees so they don’t have time to chase carts down in the parking lot. They have an apparatus that links all of them together. That’s where you need to pick one up and bring it back.
Sometimes when my husband and I shop we spy someone in the parking lot that hasn’t taken their cart back and we’ll hand over a quarter so they don’t have to walk back up to the store. And occasionally some will say keep the quarter. How nice is that??? The first time it happened to me I had a huge smile on my face. Then I wanted to pass it on. We didn’t stay in the parking lot to see if that next person did the same.
Now I have a couple of missions when I go to Aldi. Shopping is obvious. I will try to pass off the cart to someone else and tell them to keep the quarter. Or I don’t remove the quarter from the slot when I take the buggy back. It’s especially thrilling to do something that no one sees. You wonder who will be blessed by that simple quarter!
Oh and one more thing…when I am able to pass a cart off to someone else, I make sure and say “Have a nice day!”
Mary Lu Saylor South Office for Grow Real Companies
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