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.
Stores are not picking up carts so city’s solution is to charge them to pick up carts?
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.
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.
That darn Bubbles.
Returning and refurbishing carts would be a suitable project for those penalized with community service. Coordinate and perform as often as needed.
You outlined multiple ways the businesses can police this issue. In the end the carts are their property, and they need to handle it.
Government should require stores to offer free home delivery so the shoplifters are not forced to steal carts.
/leftthink
I’ve actually given this some thought. Sell the carts to the customers, return the cost when it is returned to the store.
“Some stores use the pay a quarter to get a cart.”
It does not cost a quarter to use a cart. You insert a quarter into a slot which releases your cart from a chained together series of carts. When you bring your cart back and link up with the other carts in the corral, after you load your car, you get your own quarter returned.
If someone leaves a cart somewhere in the parking lot an enterprising person would probably either use it and take that quarter when they were finished or push it back and take the quarter.
It’s such a simple solution. There are no carts all over the parking lot at grocery stores that use this strategy. Some ShopRites and Aldis use it.
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there primarily one race that uses the bus... not only grocery carts, but most likely a shit load of trash all around that bus stop as well...
When I lived in Berlin you had to put a Euro coin to release the cart and when you returned it you got your coin back from the latch. Quite effective. There would be some enterprising bums or kids who would politely ask to return the cart for you to keep the Euro. BUT of course ANYTHING done to secure carts will be called “THATS RAYCISS”