Aldi customers usually know the lay of the land at the discount grocery store, so there is a bit of etiquette involved in returning the buggies. If you're not up to returning your cart, or somebody else arrived just as you finished unloading your groceries into your car, don't be surprised if another customer offers to trade you the cart you're about to return for a quarter (via Reader's Digest). It saves you a trip back up to the corral, and it keeps them from having to insert the quarter and disengage it from the rest of the unused buggies.
Although a quarter doesn't seem like much of an incentive to return carts, most customers tend to do it, which benefits everybody by keeping the parking lot free of possible damage from runaway buggies and prices lower. Bryant University's Michael Roberto explained that typical shoppers at the retailer remain conscious of their spending and like good values, which might be why they're so willing to keep that "Aldi quarter" for the next time they shop at Aldi.
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