Do you pay a deposit to use a shopping cart

Hi,

In the UK it normally cost a £1 to put in the trolley (shopping cart) coin slot to be able to remove the chain and use the trolley. In Japan how much is it to do the same thing? I'm guessing it is a single coin currency.

Let's say a scenario where in the UK a person wants to use a trolley but has no change, only a £10 note, he goes into the supermarket to get change but then stumbles across a comic he likes which is £9.99, he buys the comic, he comes out and realises that he hasn't got enough to pay for the trolley. In Japan what would be the realistic cost for the same scenario? This is for a script I am writing.

Is there a few stores in Japan where you may have to pay a deposit even if it may be uncommon? A big supermarket for example?

Mayur

A very simple answer is "NO", even in a very big hypermarket. :)

Yes, the simple answer is indeed "no," but in the 40 something years of living in Japan as a Japanese, I've been to one big supermarket where the cart is NOT free of charge. It's OK Store in Itabashi-ohara.

So I guess we can say that if you can take the cart just like that, it's free, and if you need money, the money won't come back. At least that's how a local would think.

Slightly off topic but is the script you're writing anything to do with a heavy weed smoker?

I can't imagine anyone else who could arrive at a supermarket with a ��10 note, go in for some change for a trolley, then 'stumble across' a comic for ��9.99 then go out and think "oh.. now I haven't got enough for a trolley... or any of the other shopping I arrived here to do..."

;-)

I've never seen a market in japan do this, and to be honest it's not that common in the UK either now.

That's insane... charging for tha cars, i've never saw that before, not in South america or Japan or any place.