Abandoned Shopping Trolleys

[Electrochem]

I wish more councils would do this!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-59745453

I have seen a few supermarkets where the wheels on the trolley lock if someone tries to take them outside the perimeter of the shop. I would imagine that there is something like an induction loop that activates the lock on the wheels.

[emmie]

i wasn't the one suggesting that the tramp be prosecuted.

[Ken4155]

And i'm not suggesting you were, Emmie.

[Spicerack]

Great to see our middle class ABers being so judgemental and punching down.
While you may put your shopping in the boot of the car and drive it to your front door, not everyone has a car.
You may order on line and have it delivered to your door, not everyone has access to or the ability to do so.
You may even be a hero of the Green Revolution (like me) and carry your shopping bags home, unfortunately not everyone can be a fine physical specimen untouched by illness and/or human frailties.
So while I understand your perfectly rational anger at the sight of escaped shopping trollies strewn around the poorer parts of town that you're forced to drive through, spare a thought for the poor/enfeebled folk who 'steal' trollies to get their meagre morsels home. After all, it is Christmas. sob

[emmie]

good...

[emmie]

i order mine on line, simply because i can't manage shopping in store now.

[davebro]

I very much doubt that it's poor enfeebled shoppers who can't carry home their tiny bag of shopping that take the trollies - it's more likely yobs having a laugh, cos that's what they do!

[Spicerack]

Around here, trolley parking areas have been established around the town and a big box van (presumably paid for by the owners of the town centre) trundles around picking them up and presumably returning them from whence they came.
You may call it pandering to the criminal underclass, sigh. I'd call it common sense and compromise.

[Smowball]

Funnily enough I’ve just walked home and there is an abandoned huge LIDL shopping trolley at the very end of my road - the actual LIDL store is only around the corner!

[Spicerack]

Did you push it back, Smow?

[DTCwordfan]

Yet another shopping trolley with ropy old wheels
It won't go straight, it suddenly brakes and squeals
With such rusty crap, I always get lumbered?
Shopping trolley away with you and off
to the canal, the garden or a trough
In my book, your days are really numbered.

[maggiebee]

My dad, who lived until he was 95, lived within walking distance of his local Asda. His problem was carrying the shopping so he used one of their trolleys which he took to his home. Took it back the next time he was going shopping and repeated the process. The manager and all the staff knew him well and it became a family standing joke of Grandad and his trolley. He must have used the same trolley for 15 years. When he died we took the trolley back for the last time.

[jennyjoan]

I know Tesco's in town had that locking mechanism, cos a friend of mine tried to push it towards a taxi but it locked after a distance

[fourteen85]

I always wondered why the stores removed the pound coin slot

[Gromit]

The council in this instance are twits and their stance makes no sense.
Asda do not want their trolleys stolen, and the thieving gits that steal them are the problem. If the coucil enforced fines for tipping the trollies that would at least be targeting the right people.
Instead the are holding the trollies to ransom until the store pays an extortion fee.
They moan that it is a cost to the council of storing them, which could easily be solved by returning the stolen property to its obvious owner.
Just another money making scam.

[davebro]

//I always wondered why the stores removed the pound coin slot//

Quite a few still have them. But losing a pound may not be much of a deterrent.

[Ken4155]

I've just donated to a 'Go Fund Me' page for abandoned trolleys. I find it heartbreaking that so many are abandoned at this time of year. Remember, a trolley is for life. Not just for Christmas.

[jno]

I wouldn't worry about a tramp using a trolley, at least it's serving a purpose and in all likelihood he didn't take if from the shop, but from a street, a field or a canal. It's the ones just dumped that are the eyesore.

Asda supplies trolleys because it attracts customers, so they're good for business. So it's on them to pay for recovering them out of the profits they've made.

[Ken4155]

Jno, perhaps it is the supermarkets themselves who are surreptitiously planting trolleys in and around our cities and towns. Sort of 'free advertising'? :-)

[jno]

on the contrary, most of the ones around here are anonymous, possibly sent out by MI5 to mingle with the public. Only the supermarkts can identify which are theirs.

[maggiebee]

Ken4155 you're a caring soul. Might pop a quid or two in myself.