I also have no idea what your first paragraph means, though I must say Giant has no resemblance whatsoever to any market I ever saw in Holland. I'd venture the Dutch might own it, but it's the Yanks and their penchant for excess, even beyond their ability to maintain it for its shear obesity, who have created the "Giant experience".

As far as a deposit on the trolley, I suspect it's more to keep them from being stolen than to avoid hiring a kid to police them up. If you need to do the latter, that says something about the lazy cows that can't be bothered to put them away when they are done with them and leave them out in the parking lot to roll into my car, the same ones who throw the stock around and can't be asked to put things back where they were when they change their (tiny) minds. That and you get your quarter back when you lock the cart back up, so it doesn't cost you a dam thing so Wot's yer Beef? GRIN!

As far as hiring, I defy you to find a kid in America who'd take that job anyway, any more than they'd deliver papers on their bicycle. I find the Aldi cart thing far less "off-putting" than Giant or any other chain with twelve self-checkout lanes and one cashier.

As far as being a "sprout eater" store, if that means they have food that isn't rotten, mouldy, or spoilt if it isn't packaged to survive nuclear war, guilty as charged I suppose. It certainly doesn't strike me as trying to be Whole Foods or being cavalier with the free-range ethically sourced organic farm-to-table labelling. I found ours to be cheaper than Giant, too.

A store that has a house-brand of Pringles, a respectable variety of sausages, and not a block of tofu in sight doesn't strike me as the habitat of the hairy-legged sprout-eater. GRIN!