The Only Aldi Quarter Hack You’ll Ever Need [Video]

Aldi’s coin-hungry shopping carts are iconic. Frequent shoppers often have a designated “Aldi quarter” in their car or in a special pocket, because the store requires a quarter to release each cart from the corral. (You get the quarter back when you return the cart.)

So what happens if you show up and don’t have a quarter for the cart? The internet is full of Aldi quarter hacks, which often involve jamming other objects like keys into the quarter slot. But if you’re unlucky, the object may get stuck. Even if everything goes according to plan, there’s also the fact that carts get swapped at the register. If you have to unload all your groceries from one cart into another because your car keys are in the wrong cart now, you’ll just slow down the line and annoy everybody around you.

The reason for the quarter, Aldi explains on their website, is just to get people to return …