Posted on 01/06/2023 10:56:24 PM PST by grundle
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On a drizzly December day in Olympia, Washington, a woman in a red windbreaker is rolling her Target shopping cart laden with a stack of baskets when she abruptly grinds to a halt.
"Skrrrt! It's done!" A TikToker going by the name Taylor Ann cheerfully narrates in a video of the moment, which has amassed over 4.4 million views on TikTok. The TikToker did not respond to Insider's request for comment.
The red-jacketed customer — one of a half-dozen stymied shoppers in the clip — eventually resorted to what Taylor Ann described as "the bunny trick," doing little wheelies to hop her cart a few feet closer to her vehicle.
All were victims of an unfortunate combination of apparently crowded holiday parking lots and a likely new rollout of a cart-control system from Gatekeeper, the shopping cart loss-prevention provider that says it serves 47 of the 50 largest retailers in the world.
Whether and when a particular store gets Gatekeeper for its carts is determined on an individual store basis, a Target spokesperson told Insider. The company declined to comment on this specific instance.
The system typically depends on an embedded antenna that works as an invisible fence, though some locations have a wireless solution that has a signal range of about 40 feet.
While the hardwired system is supposed to unlock carts that return within the perimeter, the video from Taylor Ann appears to show the wireless system failing to release carts that have ventured a bit too far. A growing herd of abandoned carts can be seen in the foreground as exasperated shoppers struggle to drag empty ones from the spot where they froze.
The same TikToker even returned for a second day to film a Part 2.
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After I stacked ten or twelve of these dead buggies in a pile in the middle of the parking lot thru-lane...they might get the message.
Also...first time a buggy locks up and throws a kid out on the pavement...massive lawsuit.
...or new Air Jordan’s.
Good post—the comments that black people make about other black people are hilarious...
One of my favorites was a black lady I know who saw a city bus go by and said:
“I would never ride a bus on that route. The ^%$#s on that bus are crazy and dangerous.”
Our Kroger just got all new carts that are a hard plastic instead of all metal, the first day I went in the store it was so quiet, not a clack clack to be heard. Everyone was commenting on the quietness of the store. Been about 6 months and carts are still in pretty good shape.
You may not know—but Salvation Army started fighting for the bad guys...
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We had many posts here which included their documents preaching anti-white hate.
Some Beechnut and an old 45 would nicely solve the problem of the cart pirates that inflicted these things on the ordinary shoppers.
It’s amazing that a mere 25 cent fee will stop most cart theft from Aldi. People throw away that much value with household waste, stupid impulse buying or pulling the onions out of their Whopper, without batting an eye.
The small amount of Aldi cart theft that does happen is “shrink” that the accountants figure in.
A full-size metal shopping cart costs around $200 apiece, BEFORE the addition of a store logo or anti-theft device. It’s a real bottom-line issue.
LOL. Most people complain sometimes about other people in their own “group.”
That's what a cashier said once, about the cart-stopping at the door, the only time I encountered this anti-theft device. She said it's to stop people from loading up a cart and running out the door with it.
IMHO, stopping a cart isn't going to stop thieves from stealing or looters from looting. They will always find a way.
I think the time is coming when retail might (or should) change drastically. It's already shifting in a different direction with shop-at-home options and curbside pickup.
Eventually, the only option may be to shop online at home and then pick up the order at the store.
Thinking about store clerks who stand behind bullet-proof glass in some places where crime is rampant. You'd walk in, tell them what you wanted, and they'd get it for you. If the looting continues, maybe suburban stores will start doing the same.
thank you for the reminder...indeed, they went woke
but I will still boycott Target until forever
I also boycott Walmarts since they were the first national chain to issue mandatory training burkas (masks) in 2020
A drunken crew member on a cruise ship told me the exact same when I asked him why everything was bolted down in my cabin.
Apparently they will even steal the TV remote for the hell of it...
Thieves are everywhere. Some ushers have been caught stealing from church collection baskets. Sometimes family members steal from their own families.
So, of course, a thief wouldn’t feel bad about stealing from a store or a cruise ship.
A store detective told me that shoplifters justify their theft by telling themselves it’s the store’s responsibility to catch them.
But, aside from calling the store detectives, I never confronted a shoplifter.
The other day, there was a sad story about a young retail worker who was shot and killed trying to stop a thief.
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