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Ehm, yes, but in Germany you also put a Euro into the cart to release the chain, and need to return the cart to get it back.
Not so sure this would work here without that...
Real pros carry a thing to unlock the carts without a coin. A small metal piece on your key chain or wallet dies the trick. We still return the cart every time. This is just common sense.
Not everywhere anymore.
Some years ago they had a person going around collecting and storing the trolleys. Then they switched to the coin thing, sparing staff.
Now I experience some already dropping that too. Just take and put it back in.
If I remember correctly, the coin thing was dropped during covid for some reason.
I've seen a lot of supermarkets recently where the mechanism is still there but all the carts are unlocked, so that you don't need to insert a coin anymore. At least where I live this works just as well and people return their carts into the stack. We were probably conditioned to do it during the last years when the coin was still necessary, and now it just sticks.
I remember that a lot of supermarkets did that during the pandemic.
The stores also usually provide you with plastic coins to use instead of euros, so...