| ▲ | mikepurvis 6 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Supermarkets that make you put in a quarter to take a shopping cart are really just paying the homeless $0.25 each to return them from the parking lot. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | technothrasher 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It seems more like the customers are paying the homeless, and the supermarkets are just acting as brokers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | permo-w 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
it's the same for bottle deposits in parts of Europe. anything in a plastic bottle costs an extra ~10c which you can retrieve by depositing the empty in a machine at the supermarket | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | permo-w 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
in the UK, trolley deposits are much more expensive, at £1. people are more likely to retrieve a £1 than a quarter, but the atomic payout is ~5x higher, so I wonder which scenario yields better pay for the homeless | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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