Unfortunately, all of those small carts ( 32 of them ) were stolen from my local chain grocery store, mainly from the low income high rise across the street. The manager says they use them for walkers, for laundry carts, to tote their stuff up and down the halls,for their kids to play with , and for a myriad of other uses. So, I have to go to the adjoining suburb store to use their carts :-(
Ducky
If he knows where they are, why doesn't he pay somebody $20.00 to go and round them up? Carts from grocery stores and Walmart, are scattered all over our city. They simply go around with a truck and get them. BTW, it isn't just those "low income" people who take them.
ROMOS
Our local council collect them and charge the supermarkets etc a fee to bring them back or else they melt them down as scrap,you see the occasional one or two around the streets but they're not there for long, seems to be a good policy, one of the joys of living in Scotland now, I won't start to tell you about our new neighbours though, give me a few weeks of diary entries before I start.
jhharlan
My complex is on the “other side of the tracks” from my store and residents have been bring home the carts. I called the store to tell them and they said not to worry, they have someone who goes from complex to complex to gather the carts. NOT HERE THEY DON’T. IT’S TWO MILES OUT OF THE WAY BY CAR. I tried to explain this to them and they didn’t have the time to talk to me…….
mycatsmom
Ducky, b/c people hide them in their apartment. So, someone from the store can't go in there like gang busters. And the people in the apt would deny that they have a cart anyhow.
pythonlover
In Australia if you prefer the smaller shopping trolley to do your grocery shopping in there is a charge of a $2.00 coin that you put in a slot on the handle of the trolley that then releases a chain from the adjoining trolley/s.When your finished shopping you return it to the trolley bay and insert a key on a chain that is attached to the previous trolley in the bay, once you insert the key your $2.00 pops out.Just another way of deterring theft or abandonment.Some shops have the hand held shopping baskets fitted with a disc that is attached to the handle and if you leave the store with one an alarm will sound.
jhharlan
Pyth! What a grand idea! I will suggest it to my HEB store manager. Then he can claim it as his own idea and get a big raise!
pythonlover
I hope my explanation of the procedure was easy to follow.Lol
Ducky
We had the carts with the coin slots about ten years ago and the stores got rid of them due to so many customers complaints. They actually started going to grocery stores that did not use that system. Apparently, we hated them. :)