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Aldi trolleys accept only €2 coin

  • 16-12-2014 1:54am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 27


    Why don't they accept €1 or 20c coins rather than the less common €2 coins? Always find myself without and end up with overloaded basket, this annoy anyone else?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    That's your own bad planning, really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    €2 coin is less common than the €1 coin?? Christ times really are tough, are you sure it's a trolly you need?
    Please tell me you're trolling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,704 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Maybe it's because €2 is closer to the replacement cost of the trolley than €1.

    More likely it's because the locking mechanism can't distinguish between a €1 coin and 50c.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    If you get hold of any 2p (sterling) coins, these will also work.:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,562 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    You're less likely not to bother to put the trolley back when you're done with it with €2 than €1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    dobsdave wrote: »
    If you get hold of any 2p (sterling) coins, these will also work.:)

    The OP has an issue with having a €2 coin. I'd imagine finding, having and keeping a 2p might be akin to asking for unicorn poop.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    The OP has an issue with having a €2 coin. I'd imagine finding, having and keeping a 2p might be akin to asking for unicorn poop.

    I have a few I'll send on.
    The 2 euro coin can be spent easily, funnily enough, I cant seem to spend the 2p coin anywhere in Ireland, and so I seem to be stuck with it.
    I'm sure the OP appreciates your input though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Androma1984


    Senna wrote: »
    €2 coin is less common than the €1 coin?? Christ times really are tough, are you sure it's a trolly you need?
    Please tell me you're trolling.

    Yes, yes and no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭Detached Retina


    dobsdave wrote: »
    If you get hold of any 2p (sterling) coins, these will also work.:)

    Really? have a bunch of those rattling around in my junk drawer underneath the cutlery :) must try them!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    Really? have a bunch of those rattling around in my junk drawer underneath the cutlery :) must try them!

    Yes really.
    You dont happen to have any unicorns in that drawer aswell do you?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭Detached Retina


    dobsdave wrote: »
    Yes really.
    You dont happen to have any unicorns in that drawer aswell do you?:D

    Funnily enough :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    Why don't they accept €1 or 20c coins rather than the less common €2 coins? Always find myself without and end up with overloaded basket, this annoy anyone else?


    Aldi have been using €2 coins for their trolly since they arrived on our shores many years ago, why is this issue being raised now? Have you just started shopping there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Androma1984


    bluemartin wrote: »
    Aldi have been using €2 coins for their trolly since they arrived on our shores many years ago, why is this issue being raised now? Have you just started shopping there?

    Yes, been a Tesco/Dunnes person prior to this. Do you think they might have changed the policy if I had raised it back then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    Yes, been a Tesco/Dunnes person prior to this. Do you think they might have changed the policy if I had raised it back then?


    No they provide us with reasonable priced food, why quibble over a two euro coin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    bluemartin wrote: »
    No they provide us with reasonable priced food, why quibble over a two euro coin.

    WHICH YOU GET BACK ANYWAY!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Androma1984


    bluemartin wrote: »
    No they provide us with reasonable priced food, why quibble over a two euro coin.

    I agree about the prices of the food. However, you and others seem to be misunderstanding my point. I am questioning the decision/policy to use €2 coins and the original reasoning for this, not the value difference between €1/20c and €2. (A millionaire might run into the same problem, except that they wouldn't be shopping in Aldi!) Tesco facilitate both 20c and €1 coins, and therefore make it easier for their customers to access trolleys and hence spend more. That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

    And yes I realise you get it back. But that doesn't help me when I don't have it handy in the first place and end up using a basket!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    I agree about the prices of the food. However, you and others seem to be misunderstanding my point. I am questioning the decision/policy to use €2 coins and the original reasoning for this, not the value difference between €1/20c and €2. (A millionaire might run into the same problem, except that they wouldn't be shopping in Aldi!) Tesco facilitate both 20c and €1 coins, and therefore make it easier for their customers to access trolleys and hence spend more. That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

    And yes I realise you get it back. But that doesn't help me when I don't have it handy in the first place and end up using a basket!

    You not the only one that doesn't have a €2 coin handy, most of us don't have one. I just pop into the store and ask one of the cashiers for change.

    If you feel that strongly about it, write to ALDI, send in a complaint and maybe just maybe they may change all the coin mechanism in their trollies to accommodate you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    oops I spelt trolleys wrong, I thought it was my version :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Androma1984


    bluemartin wrote: »
    You not the only one that doesn't have a €2 coin handy, most of us don't have one. I just pop into the store and ask one of the cashiers for change.

    If you feel that strongly about it, write to ALDI, send in a complaint and maybe just maybe they may change all the coin mechanism in their trollies to accommodate you.

    As to go into the store, skip past ten disgruntled people each time in narrow queues and wait for the till to open requires effort which is the whole point of my rant, can't you see? I find it funny that you admit that "most of us don't have one", so you are concurring that there is a problem now? If they did change the policy, it sounds like it would be accommodating you also then...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭bluemartin


    As to go into the store, skip past ten disgruntled people each time in narrow queues and wait for the till to open requires effort which is the whole point of my rant, can't you see? I find it funny that you admit that "most of us don't have one", so you are concurring that there is a problem now? If they did change the policy, it sounds like it would be accommodating you also then...


    I never said there was a problem,in fact whenever I go to Dunnes I also never have a €1 coin, in fact I rarely have any coins in my pocket. I have been shopping in AlDI for years and each time I go, I say damn I must pop in and get a €2 coin and I get it no problem. You go into ALDI just one time, one lousy time, and you have a problem maybe you need to go back to tesco :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭AirBiscuit


    Get a 2P, drill a hole on it and put it on a keychain. Problem solved


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Androma1984


    bluemartin wrote: »
    I never said there was a problem,in fact whenever I go to Dunnes I also never have a €1 coin, in fact I rarely have any coins in my pocket. I have been shopping in AlDI for years and each time I go, I say damn I must pop in and get a €2 coin and I get it no problem. You go into ALDI just one time, one lousy time, and you have a problem maybe you need to go back to tesco :D

    Figured you might say that! But it's too damn cheap to go back now. I have been there many times over the years in fact and each time it gets me. Never happened in Dunnes, as always have a euro handy.

    Surely there is a problem if the system never works for you though?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Use a key.

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Stroke Politics


    For a small donation, the Irish Cancer Society gave me a key fob that I attach to my keys which has both a €1 and €2 trolley token. I can go shopping anywhere now, safe in the knowledge that my arms won't break. I don't have to carry cash now either! Which is nice...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭clint_silver


    If Im going to the swimming pool, I know the lockers take a euro coin, when I'm packing my bag, I make sure I have my shorts, hat, towel, goggles and euro coin.

    Its not the cost.

    This isn't a consumer issue for me. Actually, 10 second google led me to this.... theres your answer.

    http://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/aldi-and-the-two-euro-trolley-27130950.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,313 ✭✭✭Ankhyu


    Ffs, get a trolley token keyring with both sizes on it. Problem solved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,617 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    OP is troll(ey)ing. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I agree about the prices of the food. However, you and others seem to be misunderstanding my point. I am questioning the decision/policy to use €2 coins and the original reasoning for this, not the value difference between €1/20c and €2. (A millionaire might run into the same problem, except that they wouldn't be shopping in Aldi!) Tesco facilitate both 20c and €1 coins, and therefore make it easier for their customers to access trolleys and hence spend more. That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

    And yes I realise you get it back. But that doesn't help me when I don't have it handy in the first place and end up using a basket!

    This has to be the most mundane consumer issue in years. I always have €2 coins and very few €1 coins. How can you say €2 are less common.
    Plus, do as the rest of us do. Make sure you hold on to a coin in the car/purse/pocket to use when shopping or get a token keyring. You take bags with you when shopping I'm sure, so just keep one of those rare €2 coins specially for shopping too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭alanhiggyno1


    what a stupid thread this person made up..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    @alanhiggyno1 - if you have a problem with a thread, please use the Report Post function. Do not comment off-topic on the thread.

    dudara


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Nono Toure


    I used a 50c coin recently in a Lidl trolley and it worked. I'd imagine the same would work for an Aldi trolley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭blindsider


    Well there's 2 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

    Get a token.

    (I'm going to invent a 'Worthy of a Thread' test!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,187 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Nono Toure wrote: »
    I used a 50c coin recently in a Lidl trolley and it worked. I'd imagine the same would work for an Aldi trolley.

    Lidl trolleys are set to take a euro though.


    There are more €1 coins than €2 in circulation across the Eurozone* but its not a drastic difference at all and nowhere near sufficient to act as if the €2 is some rare creature never seen.

    *https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/euro/circulation/html/index.en.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,182 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Im going to assume they thought it would stop plebs walking off with the trolley if they new it was double the cost to them to take it from the carpark.

    Fair enough i say, The trolleys cost about 70-100Euro each.


    To the OP, it really is beyond a minor thing to be concerned about.


    First world problems and all that jazz... wha...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭bladespin


    In fairness it is a pain in the butt, everytime we pull up there was a mad scrummage for that elusive coin, more often than not we had one but more than once ended up trying to squeeze down the line to get change from the cashier, until I discovered the key trick - btw if the key's a little oblong you can take it out after you disengage the trolley allowing you to leave it in the carpark (which I don't) :p

    If they're going to be awkward you would imagine they would have a change machine somewhere close to the exit to make it easier.

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,669 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Never have coins in my wallet. always get cleaned out parking so bought a trolkey great device.
    http://www.trolkey.com/buynow.html

    My weather

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,519 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    The one euro trolleys can be opened with a 20 cent coin, and people being the lazy arses that they are they will just leave the trolley in the car park rather than walk back with it for 20 cent. 2 yoyo, however, is a large sum of money which can buy many many nice things, so people don't throw it away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭firestarter51


    i have a token its great, my local aldi also give out blue tokens


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    Its not as if this is a sudden new policy - they've ALWAYS used €2 coins.

    As someone else said, get a 2p coin, even better, drill a hole in it and put it on your key ring.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Melendez


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    Melendez wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    definitely the best answer to this thread! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,187 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Never have coins in my wallet. always get cleaned out parking so bought a trolkey great device.
    http://www.trolkey.com/buynow.html

    Is the single type of trolley they show as not usable in their list not an Aldi one?

    http://www.trolkey.com/howitworks.html

    I've used one of those recently so its either Aldi or Tesco...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Nono Toure wrote: »
    I used a 50c coin recently in a Lidl trolley and it worked. I'd imagine the same would work for an Aldi trolley.

    You could just push the Lidl trolley across to Aldi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭jay-me


    Surprised at the responses here... Whinging about someone whinging.. The ironing.. Delicious.. Anyway I too had this same problem recently and it was a pain in the hole.. I thought it would be a euro like everywhere else and I had a euro with this in mind.. No cash other than that and when I realised it was two I was pretty pissed off.. <SNIP> Aldi Somehow I don't seem to see all the trollies lying around the place in Dunnes or Tesco's..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    You could just push the Lidl trolley across to Aldi.

    Nope - they have electronic devices that lock the wheels if you leave the carpark.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭brennarr


    The Aldi trollies can be easily jimmied to use a 50c or euro coin.

    Never had a problem doing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭gabsdot40


    First world problem I know but OP this does annoy me too. I have a €1 sized trolley token on my keyring so I'm always prepared at Lidl or dunnes.
    I've been known to drive back out of the Aldi car park and go to Lidl instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭soc


    Never have coins in my wallet. always get cleaned out parking so bought a trolkey great device.
    http://www.trolkey.com/buynow.html

    I have one of these myself on the keyring. Sorts out both €1 and €2 trolleys


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Why don't they accept €1 or 20c coins rather than the less common €2 coins? Always find myself without and end up with overloaded basket, this annoy anyone else?

    I have a superquinn token thing that works in both €1 & €2 slots in trolleys:-P


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