Posted on 06/12/2022 8:10:47 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Township board passed ordinance requiring stores to either get their carts or pay $25 per three-pack
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A drive down Gratiot Avenue in Chesterfield Township means a lot of traffic. Still, lately, it is an unusual eyesore because the smart bus runs on that corridor where there are many shopping centers, and shopping carts find their way into large and unsightly piles.
The township is saying enough is enough.
Local 4 Business Editor Rod Meloni sat in a smart bus stop kiosk at 23 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue. While there, he said many people’s only concern was whether the busses were running on time, but in the township, the plethora of empty shopping carts is concerning, which the township board decided it needed to handle.
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So the Government is putting the blame on the businesses instead of the culprits, typical. I think the local GVT should suck it up and return the carts to the businesses as I believe a large portion of the local tax base is from those businesses.
Maybe the carts want to go someplace
The progressive nanny state has made many Americans increasingly incapable of living in civil society
The solution is that the businesses should have chauffeur driven limousines to drive the locals to the bus stop with their groceries—gotta treat the royalty with respect!
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“I’ve been in store that has sensors to lock cart wheels when they’re taken beyond store limits. Some stores use the pay a quarter to get a cart.”
Probably all of the big stores in our area have sensors which stop the wheels from turning when someone tries to leave the parking lot and sometimes the area by the store.
Target may not do this. We see Target carts driven by the kings/bums of the street, all over town.
The answer is simple, if they don’t have the sensors to keep their carts close by, put a $5 bounty on them.
Around here they just neuter them.
Arrest the cart thieves when they leave the lot.
They have cart locking systems in cities in Florida where you can’t get the cart out of the lot. The store pays for it, but it’s cheaper than recovering or replacing their carts.
If you're going to put a bounty on cart thieves at least make it worth the time and ammunition.
“The answer is simple, if they don’t have the sensors to keep their carts close by, put a $5 bounty on them.”
Won’t work IMHO as scammers will take the carts and then return it for the bounty.
Stores are not picking up carts so city’s solution is to charge them to pick up carts?
(Maybe the carts want to go someplace)
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Yeah. Some of the carts have quarters so if they pool their money, there’s bus 🚌 fare right there.
The township is taking the Democrat way out. Putting the onus on stores whose carts have been taken off their lots and not arresting the bus-stop absconders or driving them out of town.
All this solution does is to put the cost ultimately to the consumer while Democrat government is free to piss taxpayer money away of better forms of vote-buying.
Nope..the consumer pays for it...you just don't see it on your bill..Its called overhead...
With the ban on plastic bags it’s harder to carry those big paper bags so they wheel it as far as they can ,LOL
I always return my cart to the cart thingy, even back into the store if the weather is nice.
On a rainy day I tried to return my cart and someone had their car parked in the thingy ,LOL
Cart corral?
me too
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