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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 28/08/13 3:47 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote:   
   > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:33:01 +0800, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 19/08/13 2:33 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >>> 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?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> It doesn't require a scumbag. Quite ordinary shoppers and, in   
   >> particular, their children will allow shopping trolleys to roll away.   
   >> Mostly they don't even bother to watch the crash. I expect a new scratch   
   >> or dent every time I go shopping.   
   >   
   > I have often wished that shopping carts had parking brakes.  If the   
   > parking lot has much of a slope to it, you end up having to place the   
   > cart on the uphill side of the car to keep it from rolling away, even if   
   > the car door you wanted to place the merchandise into was on the downhill   
   > side of the car.   
   >   
      
   In those stores that have steeply sloping travellators, the trolleys do   
   have brakes that come on automatically on a slope.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
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