The shopping carts at a store nearby have an anti-theft device, a lock on one of the wheels that kicks in when the cart is taken out of the parking lot.Trouble is, sometimes it engages while I’m still in the store.
Some supermarkets and liquor stores require a gold coin ($1 or $2) to let you use the shopping trolleys. It’s a good idea to deter people from wheeling them home and then just dumping them. It’s a pet hate of mine when you see a person pushing them down the street with just one or two plastic bags of groceries in the trolley.
Most shopping carts are fine and I know stores try to keep theirs in good order. They are expensive but I’m not going to pay to use one. Only encountered that in one store and we just left and never went back. The comic is funny, though.
I’ve always thought the carts were beat up from heavy use. Wally World processes umpteen folks per hour. Other stores I use have better carts and fewer customers. How much does a new cart cost?
Re: 4. I’d be willing to bet yu’re not too fond of them either – as in, you’d rather not need one? I don’t hate the powered chairs. What I hate is the people in scooters who drive ’em like pickup trucks.
Where I now live, a vast majority of people apparently have some kind of superstition that it’s bad luck to push a cart into a line of stacked carts. They will leave the cart immediately next to the line of stacked carts.
LOL! I wondered why that was, now I know!
You are correct about Aldi’s. I like their system. In order to get your quarter back, you have to lock it into the next cart, or someone comes along at the right time and just gives you a quarter. Then they get theirs back when they lock the cart up. Good system Aldi’s has.
I don’t understand the 25 cent deposit – if somebody wanted to steal the cart, that’s not much of a deterrant to return it, and it is just a hassle for the rest of us.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 11 years ago
The shopping carts at a store nearby have an anti-theft device, a lock on one of the wheels that kicks in when the cart is taken out of the parking lot.Trouble is, sometimes it engages while I’m still in the store.
Aussie Down Under almost 11 years ago
Some supermarkets and liquor stores require a gold coin ($1 or $2) to let you use the shopping trolleys. It’s a good idea to deter people from wheeling them home and then just dumping them. It’s a pet hate of mine when you see a person pushing them down the street with just one or two plastic bags of groceries in the trolley.
pierreandnicole almost 11 years ago
No problem….I didn’t interpret it that way…I thought you meant it swerved toward the left.
Perkycat almost 11 years ago
Most shopping carts are fine and I know stores try to keep theirs in good order. They are expensive but I’m not going to pay to use one. Only encountered that in one store and we just left and never went back. The comic is funny, though.
dzw3030 almost 11 years ago
I’ve always thought the carts were beat up from heavy use. Wally World processes umpteen folks per hour. Other stores I use have better carts and fewer customers. How much does a new cart cost?
gosfreikempe almost 11 years ago
Re: 4. I’d be willing to bet yu’re not too fond of them either – as in, you’d rather not need one? I don’t hate the powered chairs. What I hate is the people in scooters who drive ’em like pickup trucks.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 11 years ago
AshburnStadium said:
Where I now live, a vast majority of people apparently have some kind of superstition that it’s bad luck to push a cart into a line of stacked carts. They will leave the cart immediately next to the line of stacked carts.
LOL! I wondered why that was, now I know!
You are correct about Aldi’s. I like their system. In order to get your quarter back, you have to lock it into the next cart, or someone comes along at the right time and just gives you a quarter. Then they get theirs back when they lock the cart up. Good system Aldi’s has.
Squirrelchaser almost 11 years ago
I don’t understand the 25 cent deposit – if somebody wanted to steal the cart, that’s not much of a deterrant to return it, and it is just a hassle for the rest of us.