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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:48:32 -0600, Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   >wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:   
   >>> Almost all supermarkets require a deposit to unlock their carts.   
   >>   
   >>Are you talking about the United States?  Because if you are, I have   
   >>to at this point say "???????"   
   >   
   >I'm in Canada.  I've seen the barricade version in DC, but haven't   
   >done much shopping in the States.  Our Safeway was the first I noticed   
   >to go to coin-unlock carts and that's US-owned (or was until a few   
   >weeks ago), so I thought that the idea came from the States.   
      
   The Overwaitea / PriceSmart / Save-on-Foods chain does this as well.   
      
   In my previous posting I probably came across as extremely annoyed   
   about "homeless" people stealing carts - a lot of this comes from a   
   recent experience where when I was in a McDonalds drive thru one of   
   these guys had a stolen cart and was going through the McDonalds bin   
   for stuff he could get a deposit on. It was a slight downgrade and the   
   cart starting rolling directly towards the drive-through line and was   
   going to nail the car door of the car ahead of me until another person   
   grabbed the cart. Point is that kind of damage TYPICALLY would cost   
   $500+ to repair at the auto body shop and this twit made no attempt to   
   retrieve "his" cart before it damaged the car.   
      
   If scumbags like this feel entitled to be the cause of damage to   
   other's property (which is exactly what making no effort to stop the   
   rolling cart) why should they deserve my respect?   
      
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