Pound in the trolley?

[DingleyDel]

Having a slightly drunken argument with dh. We are both early 30s. He swears that a staple memory of his childhood was putting a pound in the supermarket trolley, IN ALL SUPERMARKETS!! I swear this was never a thing until Aldi and Lidl arrived in the U.K. I swear I remember news articles about how great they were but you had to have a pound for the trolley, it was so notable. I don’t remember ever putting a £ in the trolley in my childhood. I grew upon the SE, Dh in the SW. was it really a common thing in the 90s?

YABU pound in the trolley was completely normal

YANB pound in the trolley was introduced by Lidl/ Aldi

South east use to have to do it for somerfields

Kwik save definitely needed a pound!

@sirfredfredgeorge

and then give the trolley back to the kids on the estate to take back and collect the pound

But in the early 90's the system always worked with 1p and a matchstick didn't it?

Anyway, as others have said it was long before aldi and lidl, but very much dependent on area.

Did it?

We wuz robbed!

It was never a thing in country areas. I think it's an urban issue.

Oh yes, I did this well before Lidl and Aldi were even a thing.

Now...does anyone remember taking the empty glass bottles back to the pop man in his van to get 20p?? I think that's a better marker of what kind of area you grew up in🤣

YABU.

It was a thing long before Lidl and Aldi arrived.

There were few available baskets in a local Morrison’s yesterday. When I asked, I was told that people had taken them.
I notice that in Aldi an alarm goes off if you try to take a basket out of the shop. Now I know why.

Yes, I remember saving a pound in my bag for shopping at Sainsbury’s (90s). I wouldn’t say the area was rough.

Depends where you live. Locally super posh place - no coins required even at Aldi or ASDA, more normal town (especially central) coins required at all supermarkets (we don't have a Waitrose).

When we moved last year we discovered our closest sainsburys trolleys don't need a pound. Told DH we live in a posh area now.
Always needed a coin anywhere I've lived before!

I grew up in SE and always tagged along for the weekly shop with DF, we always needed a £ coin to the supermarkets we went to pre Aldi/Lidl.

Born in the 80s, I remember every trolley needed £1

They all had it. I loved getting the trolley as a kid. Felt very grown up going over with the £1.
And my mum never shopped in lidl or aldi because none of the towns anywhere near us got them until I went off to uni.

Always morrisons or asda (or Safeway when it was around) for us.

Ps must have been why there was so many trolleys in the canal on our estate. We were giving them to the local kids to earn a few bob by taking them back to Tesco, and they eere using a matchstick to get the pound out before dumping them in the canal!

Very late 80s, maybe early 90s Safeway needed the pound. I remember giving an old relative a token that you could use instead of money. Thought it was a great present for him!

I'm sure SavaCentre did it in the early 1990s, maybe as far back as the 80s

Coins in a trolley were a thing long before Aldi/Lidl. I love Aldi but the coin trolley protocol has caught me out several times and I’ve shifted to Morrisons near me as they have completely free no coin trollies.

Locally, only Lidl and Aldi have coin deposit trolleys. But this is the rural SW; we still have honesty boxes for buying home grown veggies. Most people pay everything they should.

@Bluebluemoon

Oh yes, I did this well before Lidl and Aldi were even a thing.

Now...does anyone remember taking the empty glass bottles back to the pop man in his van to get 20p?? I think that's a better marker of what kind of area you grew up in🤣

Yes. I'm old.

They should bring that back, both for the sake of the environment and as a way of earning pocket money!

Growing up in NI in the 1980s, it was common in my area. I think it might have been 20p though.

Definitely!! I remember hoarding a couple of quid a week from putting the trolley back and collecting peoples forgotten pounds and I'm talking at least 30+ years ago.

I definitely remember it from my childhood. We used to go to Kwik Save and my dad let me keep the £1 for taking the trolley back

I remember it clearly being a thing in the 90s, definitely not an Aldi, Lidl thing!

Morrison's definitely needed a pound in the late 80's

Not in U.K. but Tesco, and it's forerunner in my local town, Crazy Prices had the pound for a trolley long before Aldi and Lidl arrived.