Vandals Attack Shopping Trolleys...

[Katahu]

Idiot Award Nominees!

--- Best slowest thinking numbskull.
--- Best no-life... woops! I guess that's us. But we're not idiots.

[H]

they attacked 83 of them... what a shopping maul!

[USNightStalker]

What the...


What is this - an airport? Are all stores like that in the UK? Dude, that sucks. Here you just walk in, get a cart from the row and go. That would suck to have to drag change to the store just to get a cart.

[Hagar]

What the...


What is this - an airport? Are all stores like that in the UK? Dude, that sucks. Here you just walk in, get a cart from the row and go. That would suck to have to drag change to the store just to get a cart.

That's how it is in my local supermarkets. However, in some places dumped supermarket trolleys are a serious problem. People without cars use them to take their shopping home & then abandon them instead of taking them back, This is not only expensive for the supermarkets that have to continually replace them but also an eyesore. This type of trolley has an automatic brake that is activated by a coin. When you return the trolley to the correct place you get the coin back. It's been very successful in preventing this problem but it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain cell that there are no coins in the trolleys when they're not in use.

PS. Although it gets worse by the day not everyone in the UK has a car or uses it for shopping.

[TSC.]

That would suck to have to drag change to the store just to get a cart.

Well it's only a pound coin - I wouldn't exactly call it 'dragging' - more like, 'putting it in my pocket & to h3ll with the extra weight'.

It just makes people put the trolley back where they got it from to get they're deposit back - instead of leaving the trolley in the middle of car park (or river).

Cheers,

TSC.

[Saitek]

Lidls (a German invader company) is the only shop I know of that uses those type of trollies. They make up less than 1% of British food shops - so it is hardly a representation of our shops.

[Hagar]

Lidls (a German invader company) is the only shop I know of that uses those type of trollies.

Not so. There are many more examples like this if you care to do a search. http://www.salisbury.gov.uk/council/communications/press/2003/display-press-release.htm?id=2003-11-09-a.asp

Warm welcome to trolley agreement
Dated 2003

Three organisations have welcomed the agreement signed between Salisbury District Council, Tesco and Sainsbury's to introduce coin operated trolleys at their city centre stores.

The Environment Agency, City Centre Management and Wiltshire Wildlife Rescue have said it should make great strides into removing the scourge of abandoned trolleys, which have blighted the city

[Alphajet_Enthusiast]

Wow... the things you hear...  ;D

[Hagar]

Now, can someone explain to me why the plural of trolley is trolleys & not trollies.

Answers on a 5 pound note to the usual address.

[Saitek]

I still don't think that Doug.  I have shopped in shops all up and down Britain and I think Lidls is the only one I have ever come across and they make up a tiny proportion of the shopping retailers  ::)

[Woodlouse2002]

[quote]I still don't think that Doug.

[Hagar]

They're quite common in the smaller in town supermarkets. But quite rare at the out of town ones.

There's a very good reason for that. People without cars & most likely to dump these trolleys rarely use out-of-town supermarkets so there is no need for them.

[Woodlouse2002]

There's a very good reason for that. People without cars & most likely to dump these trolleys rarely use out-of-town supermarkets so there is no need for them.

Added the fact that drunks at midnight are unlikely to have a pound coin to get a trolly to dump in a canal.

[Hagar]

Added the fact that drunks at midnight are unlikely to have a pound coin to get a trolly to dump in a canal.

Speaking of which I've seen some very exotic things dumped in some very strange places my time. Some of them are so big & heavy I could never work out how they moved them.

PS. Perhaps that's why they need to pinch those trolleys.

[Foxtrot Sport]

Trolleys?

Shopping Cart?

I thought you were talking about like, a San Franciscan trolley, with the cable and people hanging off and everything.  Oh well.

Yeah, in the less fortunate areas with supermarkets, we're starting to get the sensor-triggered wheel clamp, keeping them from being stolen, but at my nearby one, they're just grab&go.