Shopping trolleys

[Gumby]

What kind of person are you ?

One who takes the trolley out from Bunnings or Safeway, unloads the goodies and leaves it sitting in a car space in the middle of the carpark. Or do you take it to the trolley bay ? r back to the store even.

I get really off when people can't be buggered taking them back. Especially when they just park them iun the middle of nowhere.

Selfish lazy pricks. It's a sad statement on society I reckon. :mad:

[dazzler]

I always put mine in the handicapped spot. That way they dont have to look for one to go shopping.

[ozwinner]

I usually push em down hill until they hit a car.
Is that fun or what??

Al

[DPB]

Why don't you say what you mean, Gumby, come-on, don't hold back!

Shopping carts are the only cultural peeve that remains after living in Oz for the better part of twenty years. Who ever invented the Aussie Shopping cart with both front and rear wheels that steer? I may be wrong, but is this the only place in the world that hasn't found out how much easier it is to steer a cart with only the front set of wheels that steer? Fill a shopping cart with any weight at all and they become almost uncontrollable on even the slightest incline.

I think I know why they make them the way they do - they are easier to man-handle (should that be person-handle?) when ganged up in a train. I get it now - easier for the retailer - the customer be damned!:mad:

Gumby, the reason I don't return them is I'm afraid, since they are so difficult to control, that I might run into someone's nice black Beamer.

[Greg Q]

I usually push em down hill until they hit a car.
Is that fun or what??

Al

Yes it IS fun. But what a shame leaving all that good bush welding rod behind

[Gumby]

Gumby, the reason I don't return them is I'm afraid, since they are so difficult to control, that I might run into someone's nice black Beamer.

Just stay away from the Mountain Gate carpark then

[Glenn_M]

You mean I'm supposed to leave them at the store?
Jeez, that's gonna free up some room in the shed.......

[oges]

The little shopping centre near us has locking mechanisms on the trolley wheels that lock if you try to take it outside the perimeter fence, this is to combat the high cost of missing trolleys.

I wonder how long it will be before they have a payment method where you get a refund on returning the trolley like at the airport. I think Aldi may already have something similar to this.

[Pat]

Aldi, NSW charges $2 for a cart, returnable when you place the cart back in its proper location. I am wondering if the larger supermarkets are still paying the "Finders Fee" for MIA trolleys?

[Greg Q]

The airport charges $3.00 for a cart, only they keep all of it.

[Auld Bassoon]

I wonder how long it will be before they have a payment method where you get a refund on returning the trolley like at the airport. I think Aldi may already have something similar to this.

Been in place in Melbourne (in the places where I shop anyway) for several years - 1 or 2 dollar coin into the trolley to release it - and get it back when the trolley is reconnected back onto a chain of others).

In South Africa, youngsters would make a Rand or two, by following shoppers to their cars and offer to take the trolley back, based on the same idea, except that they got to keep the coin.

As to Al's comment (hopefully meant in jest ), I'd one morning just picked up a sparky new BMW 535 in Johannesburg, and went to a supermarket. Just coming back out and watched as some dozy, mentally feeble, and clearly deranged auld bastrad just left the trolley go scooting down the slope after he'd emptied it - right in to the left front passenger door - of my NEW car! Cor! Venting steam from all possible orifices (and even a few improbable ones) went over to challenge the bugger. He just grins, shrugs and says "who cares - I don't"... Mega gyp sets in at about that time so I gently (not! :eek: ) apply foot to his car's door and just walk away...

It didn't fix my car, but it did make me feel a whole lot better....

[echnidna]

I believe in creating more employment for aussies.
If I took me trolley back the management wouldn't hire trolley collectors.

So do yer bit to increase employment.
Leave yer trolleys in the carpark.

[DanP]

I'm disappointed Gumby.

You've missed a perfectly good opportunity for a poll...

[Gumby]

I'm disappointed Gumby.

You've missed a perfectly good opportunity for a poll...

I actually thought about a poll but I think they are over done. I just wanted to vent.

[Schtoo]

Who ever invented the Aussie Shopping cart with both front and rear wheels that steer? I may be wrong, but is this the only place in the world that hasn't found out how much easier it is to steer a cart with only the front set of wheels that steer?

Wrong. Same trolleys here, except they are half the size and you need to throw a basket into them or all your stuff falls out the bottom.

Come to think of it, I think that maybe they were the same at the supermarkets in San Francisco too.

That's all I know though. Not very well travelled am I.

Most people take them back here, but still occasionally you will find an escapee around the carpark but because they are so small, usually not a big problem.

The baskets however. I am sure they lose plenty of them. Not guilty myself.

Yet...


(Tell ya what though, if I find the &^%^&% that hit our car, not with a trolley though, I'll need to find out how easy/difficult it is to hide a body...)