@hfrazey are they used to "open all hours"-type shops where you tell the shopkeeper what you want and they give it to you or something?

@troubleMoney They are used to "free" bags and "free" carts (and don't think about things deeply enough to realize these things aren't free)

@hfrazey OH! Forgot those hadn't got everywhere yet

In the UK all supermarkets charge for bags and a lot of them have a coin-takey-deposit-thing on the carts

You just take in a bunch of reusable carrier bags and make sure you have a coin with you

@troubleMoney here in America we are behind the rest of the world in a LOT of ways

@hfrazey I suppose the shopping cart thing isn't as much of an issue in the US

Over here people would just walk home with the cart and all their shopping in there then dump them wherever

Cost the supermarkets a lot of money in recovering the carts so they put the deposit things on them

I guess since there isn't as much walking home with shopping going on in the US that isn't as much of a problem

@troubleMoney yeah only in the denser neighborhoods where people don't have (or can't afford) cars. Otherwise it's all zoom zoom all the time