Morrisons Scraps The £1 Deposit For A Trolley.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686626/Morrisons-scraps-1-deposit-trolley-Supermarket-set-leave-unchained-bid-make-shopping-easier.html

/// Dalton Philips, the Chief executive, said: ‘Our nation is getting busier. We have less free time than previous generations and customers have told us that they want a quicker shop. ///

In this age of shorter working hours, more holidays and possessing more and more labour saving devices and products, are we really too busy to place a pound coin in a supermarket trolley?

[rockyracoon]

I find it's more of a pain checking to see if I have a £1, our local Tesco doesn't do it thankfully.

[hc4361]

I keep coins in the ashtray of my car specifically for trolleys and parking. Not a problem at all.
As it happens I'm just back from Morrison's. It was very quiet with manned, empty checkouts. Good for me, not so good for them

[julia-mag]

Now you'll find the trolleys left all over the car park instead of in one place!

[hc4361]

They used to employ people to keep the trollies in order. I hope they resume the practice.

[Mamyalynne]

Before the introduction of £1 Trolley locks we used to have them left in our residential courtyard car parks and thrown into the fishing lodge.

I have a trolley token on a chain in every handbag and every coat pocket.

[ummmm]

Labour saving devices and more women have to go out to work to pay the mortgage.

[grasscarp]

big mistake. car parking spaces quickly become littered with abandoned trollies. bet they bring it back when they realise. Like mamya I have my trusty token for when no pound coin to hand.

[naomi24]

Tesco, Sainsbury, and Waitrose seem to manage okay without the £1 for the trolleys.

[Old_Geezer]

It's a pain in the rear. Everyone inconvenienced because a few bad apples can't behave, and the supermarket can't think of a decent system. (A bit like all retailers these days. Blow the good customers, they'll put up with whatever suits us.) And we all risk forgetting to recollect the coin on leaving. Bad system, worth taking one's custom to a different supermarket because of. It's good if they have seen the light, now one just needs to ask why they thought it a good thing to inflict on folk in the first place. And it has nowt to do with time taken. That's a 'red herring'.

[Butterbun]

Our local Tesco started it then quickly abandoned it. Result? Trolleys left on streets, drunks use them to cart each other home, in play parks, residential areas. When we inform the desk where they are, they send a van out to collect them. More trouble IMO.

[Old_Geezer]

Like they can't set up an alarm or wheel lock when it leaves the area, or chain them up at nights.

[Mamyalynne]

Most do chain them up at night - the locking wheels have been tried, great expense and people hated it.

Alarms would be costly too, and who pays? We do.

[Gill1941]

Most annoying thing is our local M&S (Truro). Trollies all inside the store at the back but still need £1 coins. Why?!

[rockyracoon]

Never had a problem with trolleys at our Tesco, but then they do have a couple of chaps that collect them and bring them to the front of the store. No one could pinch them as all the exits to the car park have them locking things on them, and I don't see any trolleys about the town where they shouldn't be.

[Mamyalynne]

Think it also depends whether the Supermarket is in a residential area as ours is - less problems in the larger slightly out of town ones.

[rockyracoon]

Ours is residential, we obviously don't get the trolley problems that some areas do though. The trouble they do have is boy racers in the car park at night, I don't live near enough but I know there have been a good few complaints about it.

[mikey4444]

If this means that the car park is going to be filled with discarded trolleys, than its a bad move.

Anyway, I agree with aog here (!) is it really too much trouble to put a £1 coin in a flipping trolley ?

[Captain2]

Yes 'my' morrisons does it again. They've just cut all our hours, across the board, to 'pay for' all the price reductions that they are promoting, so what do they do? spend thousands on having little tokens made to put in the trolleys. Wouldn't mind if it cost the customer but they got their £1 back.
And yes our trolley collection point now looks like a bomb's gone off at times - and who has to round up the trollies? - yep the poor staff.

[WILLWONKER]

Use a basket and you won't spend so much. :)