AIBU to think this person gets this weeks CF medal!

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So, shopped at Aldi earlier today where you have to insert £1 to get a trolley. I usually drive into a parking space, but reversed in today. While loading the shopping into my car I rested the trolley in front of my bonnet. I had three large bags of shopping, which I took one by one to the boot. Once I finished loading the last bag I realised someone had taken off with my trolley! Had a good look around but couldn't see anyone close by.
I was really hacked off, not just because of the £1 I'd lost, but because I couldn't believe someone would do this!
AIBU to think whoever did it is A CF?

They probably couldn't see you and thought it was a random trolley

What's the relevance of stating they were a traveller?

See I thought about giving them the benefit of the doubt but surely you'd at least say "mind if I take your trolley?" Not just nick it off someone if they were still actively unpacking!

Ummm it was a joke. As in, you can't buy anything for a pound these days. Sorry if it went over your head.

This happened to me!

I love that, a bit like when you give the price of a coffee in Costa so someone gets to benefit from it. I'll keep a few spare £1 coins and start doing that 😊

I bought a set of these from Amazon - they fit on your key ring, and you just put it in, jiggle it about until the trolley releases, then take it out and put your keys back in your pocket. No coin or token required, and very hard to lose!

4 shopping cart keys and 1 key chain, stainless steel cart keys, shopping cart tokens, shopping cart tool accessories amzn.eu/d/fmPz7Of

It didn't "go over my head"; jokes are meant to be funny.

In one supermarket I stopped to look at stuff before I had put anything in my trolley; when I turned round it was gone. Another customer pointed to two old people shuffling out on the shop with my trolley.

More recently, my husband turned round after reaching up for something, to find his walking stick had been nicked from the trolley. Some people are vile.

In the 'good old days' when I used to work on checkouts, to release a trolley you could use the blunt end of the type of key used to open corned beef tins. Degree level educated in a STEM subject but I loved my checkout job.

Yes. One of the lovely reasons why Aldi's and Lidl's is so cheap, is no in-store customer service.

But seriously, this experience has cost you £1.

From now on you'll park so trolley straight to boot, load car, return trolley.

So you won't be victim to any marauding gangs stealing trolleys.

I get it. Humiliation. Victimisation. Feeling shite.

But at some point you need to evaluate and get things into perspective. No one died. You weren't physically assaulted. You can still feed your family - because they didn't steal the groceries.

As much as there are trigger warnings on everything for young people - we don't live in a unicorn world. People backstab. People are rude and nasty. People steal. A dose of road rage in a car park can lead to a £1000 bill.

You need to be able to cope with a financial loss of £1 in a supermarket - if you want to live to a happy old age.

Thank you @noctu ,I wasn't sure. Yes they were lovely and such a great idea. I'll bet my bags were a lot lighter to a strapping young lad than they felt to me, especially after sleeping in a tent for four nights! I have a pass for the minibus down there from the car park because of my back but even the walk to and from it killed me, I was in so much pain I was nearly crying!

Most of the people around me didn't let them help. Said they were worried about them running off with their bags. I was like 'If they feel they want to nick a huge rucksack full of dirty muddy clothes then fair play to them!'

No, I never felt they'd do that. Some people are just uptight. They wanted to help and earn a bit of £. Very good of them .

It didn't "go over my head"; jokes are meant to be funny.

How miserable are you?

We used to do that when we were kids.
Along with offering lots of odd jobs for the neighbours like weeding or sweeping driveways. I keep living in hope someone will call here and offer but kids must have too much these days.
Note to self....must try and rope DS and his friends into doing it ASAP, they'll probably think I'm mad though and it's child cruelty 🙄😂

Not at all

Nicked your pound

Where has OP ever said she CAN'T cope with the loss?
She's clearly posted it as an amusing anecdote, on a social media forum. She hasn't done a sadface local newspaper story or reported the incident to the police.
Why the need for such an extended condescending comment? You've probably spent more time writing that than OP has spent thinking about what happened.

I only said this to my mate last week when he was bemoaning the fact he had to mow the grass. I was like where are all the kids who come round offering to do odd jobs like that for a quick bit of cash like we did!

@easylikeasundaymorn spot on! I posted as an amusing thread, and it has been amusing reading everybody's cf stories.

Good call! I’ve been sad over the state of my garden as I can’t manage the bending / kneeling etc myself, but have an able bodied child I definitely need to bribe to assist!

Have you thought is a worker returning said trolley because it looks like someone had abandoned it in front of a car?!
of course you didn’t, you assumed someone would want the £1 🤔

It’s Aldi, u would u expect any less.

A couple of weeks ago I spent far too long choosing three for two wine, ended up with £18 for 3 Gary Barlow wines. I went to another shop and opened the boot to get a bag - wine fell out, one smashed, along with other things. A couple came to help, with a dog, and I warned them away because of the glass.

The woman was standing very close to me 'helping' and suddenly I realised she had the dog and said to be very careful about the glass. What I hadn't realised was that her husband had passed her the dog lead, while he went to his car with my wine. When I got home I only had one bottle. £27's worth!

It’s the same concept but the largest coin in general circulation is 25c, we have $1 notes so there’s no US equivalent to a £1 coin. Aldi where I am (East Coast US) now have an empty trolley at the till the pop your stuff into, and then swap. I tried pointing out I’d used a 10p coin but they told me most people don’t bother about 25c

Just for info a Yale key will fit in the coin slot (or any key with a round end or a token - I use the token from the gym I go to) so long as it fits in the slot and hits the release mechanism it's fine

I'm just wondering if a teaspoon would work 😂