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In Washington, D.C. the grocery stores have little barricades set up by the doors so you can't move the shopping carts off the porch. You have to go get your car and drive up to the door to collect your groceries, that is, if some idiot hasn't decided to park in the pickup lane. But even that wasn't enough for the Safeway on Capitol Hill, fondly referred to as the Soviet Safeway because they're always out of things such as milk. Anyway, that store bought a bunch of shopping carts equipped with a special wheel that would freeze up, making it impossible to move if it passed over a specially painted yellow line at the perimeters of the parking lot. For a while the yellow line was littered with disabled carts. It looked like someone had set up a cordon of shopping carts to keep pedestrians out of the parking lot. Then our clever street people/parasites figured out how to disable the anti-theft wheels and now, once again, it is almost impossible to obtain a shopping cart there on some days. Capitol Hill remains decorated with random shopping carts abandoned by thieves, while entire armies of fragrant street people push around other pilfered carts. It is disgusting.