[Ads-l] corral

[Bill Mullins]

> This sense is not in MW:
>
> 2025
> https://www.tastingtable.com/1842199/reason-aldi-charges-shopping-cart/
> : Aldi requires shoppers to insert a quarter before taking a cart
> becauseit's
> an incentive for customers to return their carts to the corral after
> shopping."
>

Earlier:

1960 Elmira Advertiser 11 Sep 3/2

Some supermarkets have set boundaries beyond which shoppers may not take cards; and many have done it with inoffensive gimmicks like the Keystone Kop and "cart corral" at a Philadelphia market.

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