Somebody keeps leaving uattended Home Depot shopping carts all over my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the grocery store this morning, and a woman was wheeling around a TjMaxx cart. We were in Giant. Cart stealers are everywhere.

In the UK they make you deposit a pound coin in order to get a cart. You only get it back upon return. No stolen carts.

I hear Aldi's does that, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This drives me crazy. I think it should be illegal to take a shopping cart out of the store's lot. I saw a grocery store one in my parents' nice townhouse community this week. This is just pure laziness.

Not to mention theft!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This drives me crazy. I think it should be illegal to take a shopping cart out of the store's lot. I saw a grocery store one in my parents' nice townhouse community this week. This is just pure laziness.

Not to mention theft!

DUN! Dun! Dunnn!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These carts cost stores hundreds of dollars. It's terrible that people are stealing them. And even worse if the county takes it to the dump.

I agree with this. They are very expensive for the store to buy and maintain. I'm surprised they don't want them back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the grocery store this morning, and a woman was wheeling around a TjMaxx cart. We were in Giant. Cart stealers are everywhere.

In the UK they make you deposit a pound coin in order to get a cart. You only get it back upon return. No stolen carts.

Yeah Aldi does that here. Problem is that 90% of the time I don't have a quarter on me and so I only buy what I can carry in my hands. Their policy actually makes me buy less.

And their parking lot is clearer but they also don't have to hire the person to collect the carts, so that is also a cost savings for them (and no job for someone).

[Anonymous]

Urban horrors abound!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a target cart in my hood for a while. I called Target and they did not care. They said they don't pick up carts outside of their parking lot. So, I called the County (MOCO) and they came and picked it up and took it to the dump.

Why should she care?
She is getting paid $15 an hour right out of high school.

[Anonymous]

OP do you happen to live in Eckington or close?

[Anonymous]

Would it be better if these carts were attended?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supermarket carts are rigged so the wheels lock if they are pushed outside the parking lot. Homie D and the rest need to get with the program.

The Harris Teeter near my house has this too. I also like the idea of making people pay a deposit to use a cart. That's the best way. It could stop the lazy losers from leaving carts all over the damned parking lots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would it be better if these carts were attended?

YES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a target cart in my hood for a while. I called Target and they did not care. They said they don't pick up carts outside of their parking lot. So, I called the County (MOCO) and they came and picked it up and took it to the dump.

Why should she care?
She is getting paid $15 an hour right out of high school.

The store probably does not have a way to transport it back. You'd need at least a pick up truck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a target cart in my hood for a while. I called Target and they did not care. They said they don't pick up carts outside of their parking lot. So, I called the County (MOCO) and they came and picked it up and took it to the dump.

Why should she care?
She is getting paid $15 an hour right out of high school.

The store probably does not have a way to transport it back. You'd need at least a pick up truck.

I use to live in California and there was actually a company that would go around and collect all the carts and return them to the store (for a fee.)

I like the idea of the wheels locking to not leave the parking lot, instead of paying the deposit to use a cart...like a PP said, I don't always have the right change on me to put in the machine.

[Anonymous]

PP at 15:45 here

This company picks up the shopping carts
http://www.cartretrieval.net/

[Anonymous]

Put a zucchini wearing a hat and mustache in it.