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From: robban@clubtelco.com
On 19/08/13 2:17 PM, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Robert Bannister
> wrote:
>> On 19/08/13 2:27 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:57:08 -0600, Greg Goss wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Supermarkets in really rich communities still don't need deposits.
>>>> Medium-rich supermarkets want a quarter to unlock the cart. Poor to
>>>> middle-class supermarkets want (in my country) a dollar coin.
>>>> Supermarkets in really poor areas have the carts barricaded to the
>>>> area next to the entrance, and you have to bring your vehicle to the
>>>> cart.
>>>
>>> Hmmm my suburb is not considered poor but our carts are typically
>>> $1.00. For the record, when you return your cart you get your coin
>>> back so it's not really a rental but a deposit.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The WalMart about six miles from me is in a poorer neighborhood than
>>>> where I live. It has electronic wheel locks that provide a similar
>>>> effect to that barricade. But I was surprised that the wheels lock up
>>>> if you take the cart into the rest of the mall instead of to your car.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be cheaper and equally effective for Walmart if instead of
>>> using a radio device to lock the wheels they simply used a timer that
>>> locked after 2-3 hours?
>>
>> Someone can walk an awful long way in 2-3 hours. They'd have to extend
>> the radius of their usual search.
>
> The kids will be well bored of riding the trolley down steep hills and
> dumped it in a river / lake long before 2-3 hours is up. :-\
>
True, but it's not usually children who steal them. It's grown-ups who
wheel them home, sometimes quite a long way, with no attempt at stealth
as if it were a perfectly normal thing to do. Just as the three or four
rusting trolleys in their front garden are normal.
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Robert Bannister
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