no,
Aldi you put a quarter in a cart lock to release it and when you put the cart back you put the key back in the lock and you get your quarter back
yeah you get it back.
it keeps the need for employees to gather carts when the customer returns it by the door to get the quarter back.
I loved it when I lived near an ALDI-
back in the day (like 20 years ago) when bread was a quarter and bologna was 89 cents. Kek
our one homless guy in town would take no money but would bus the cart for the quarter