You’re going to need a bigger wifi signal.
I have seen this Happen, most recently to a bunch of firemen who had parked their truck out of bounds.
It was mildly amusing, but I know carts are expensive and frequently stolen.
First ran into these locking carts at Kroger grocery stores here in Georgia years ago. I often wonder at the lost productivity of unlocking malfunctioning carts (if they unlock) and what the frustration for customers does to sales. I haven’t noticed them at Publix (where they say shopping is a pleasure). Not thrilled if Target has them now. It’s a bean counter solution to theft that doesn’t work seemlessly.
They should do like Aldi’s and charge a quarter. That would end theft!
Our local Krogers tried that. After about 2 years the wires wore out now it does not matter
How far away are these folk parked?
Shopping center parking appears to be too large, even if they are in the same lot.
Video is too small of frame for scale.
Of course the actual thieves will just slip a skateboard or other wheels under one end if they still want a cart that does not roll well.
A Safeway in my general neighborhood is a large store with a huge parking lot and extra parking on the roof. Good luck finding a shopping cart there these days. There is always a shortage, even in the cart return areas in the lot itself. Best method is to follow a shopper to his/her car and ask if you can have their cart when they’ve emptied it.
Same experience, different store. I never encountered this stupid anti-theft device until a cashier forgot to turn it off. My son’s shin slammed into the cart when it stopped at the door. Cashier said sorry. My son said no big deal. I told the cashier the store is lucky he’s a young man and a nice guy. Suppose that happens to an elderly person? If it does, I hope the store gets sued.
Not so bad. I’ve seen stores that have bollards to keep the carts close to the store.
I’m one of those handicapped folks you see riding electric scooters in Walmart. The new ones have the same feature. So last Thursday the one I was using locked up next to the dairy section. Fortunately shutting off and rebooting cleared the problem.
I suspect typical TikTok users doesn’t even know what “civil society” means. Won’t miss what they never knew.
Had a conversation w/ the manager at a supermarket in northern Virginia who told me that with carts it’s a damned-if-you-do/ damned-if-you-don’t battle for his store: if you control them, you upset the honest shoppers; if you don’t, the dishonest shoppers run off with them. The only thing he can do is to send his people to nearby apartment complexes to gather them now and then.
Aldi’s system works better.
I always seem to get that cart with the flat front wheel that goes clack, clack, clack, clac,......
I used to never need to bring a cart near the car but only have done so recently thanks to commie bag taxes that I try not to participate in.
Prior to bag taxes, I could loop all of those plastic goodies over my forearm and carry them out.
Makes for easy loading to, I could just slip them off into the back.
The quarter thing works great at ALDI. Nobody steals crappy Walmart carts.
they do not allow Salvation Army bell ringers
they are the first national chain to allow men into women's restrooms and changing rooms
first rape of a little girl inside store by a man who identified as a women
and a bunch of other leftist stuff
vote with your dollars
If one of those things locked up on me I would take my stuff out of it and I would throw it in the path of the traffic and then continue on to my car and leave.
And this is not an idle threat. The whole point is the way you get stores to stop doing things like this is when it costs them. You have to make it painful for them or they’ll just keep doing it.
These things have been around for like 25 years. Big problem is the line in the pavement never survives the first chip and seal. Yeah they can suck, especially in the holiday season when the parking lot is full. Just don’t take it out on employees, the clerk in the front probably wasn’t even born when the system went in place, much less had any input.
The two videos were funny.