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by zaarn 2589 days ago
It only defeats it partly. It's still your plastic coin. If you left the cart, you'd be handing someone else your stuff for free.
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Absolutely. Mine is so worn that it barely works, but you'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. The store would give me a new one for free just for asking if they can change a bill so I have coins to unlock a cart.

The best thing ever was that in the beginning, the plastic ones sold for the same price as the face value of an equivalent coin. People would by a plastic 1 DM-sized piece for 1 DM.