81399672
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Re: [Rant] store shopping carts
said by sivran  :Think invisible fence, only instead of dogs, it's for carts, and instead of electric shocks, it's a wheel lock. I have on purpose take them out by lifting the front wheels up and rolling on two back wheels.
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Thinkdiff
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Re: [Rant] store shopping carts
said by lew_b :said by Mr Neutron :said by lew_b :Woe to anyone who dare go shopping without a quarter !  I'm not familiar with those. Do you get your quarter back at the end? I wonder if the hassle of having to produce a quarter before you get to use a cart drives away business? Yeah, plugging the end of the cable from the cart in front of you into your cart releases the quarter. I really hate these carts. They have them at most pathmark's in the Bronx. All it does is attract the local bums who wait for you to unload your items and then take the cart so they can get the quarter. They always get pissed when I bring my own cart back and get my quarter. I've stopped shopping at any store that uses this ridiculous system.
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Toadman
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Re: [Rant] store shopping carts
said by quatrix :I use those straps to attach the seat back to the front of the cart and make it harder for the next overbreeder to fold it out. Hold your applause. So you are the SOB that does this when I am trying to juggle my 2 year old and get out the cart.
Hope that you are not flying back my way next time I am on vacation in Florida. I will more than gladly let my kids kick the back of your seat for 3 hrs! |
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Maccawolf
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said by 81399672 :]I have on purpose take them out by lifting the front wheels up and rolling on two back wheels. Now why does that not surprise me?
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thedragonmas
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Albany, GA
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said by patcat88 :said by Mr Neutron :Most of the stores that use this system have a yellow line painted around the parking lot, with signs (like the one pictured above) that warn shoppers not to push carts beyond that line. The Walmart near me has that system. That yellow line looks like the above pic by the end of the day because of dead shopping carts. Fun game for the kids, take a working shopping cart, run as fast as you can with it, let it go right before the yellow line, cart will go over line, then somersault once or a couple times. if some one ever gets the nerv to do this, im sure those of us on the internets would very much apreciate a youtube of it  just sayin. (whistles and looks the other way) |
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fireflier
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fireflier
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I've used those in England. I actually kinda like them. They're more maneuverable. I think it just takes a little practice to "drive" them properly.
It would make moving a cart sideways out of the aisle a lot easier for passing shoppers if we had them here.
Plus they're a lot more fun if you've been out at the pubs on a saturday night and you want to go for a spin in a shopping cart (literally).
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fireflier
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I do that too, but I do it with a bit of aggravation toward the lazy pricks who don't think it's their job to put things back where they belong. It's actually gotten BETTER where I live because so many people were complaining about it and the people who didn't put them back were being villified.
Years ago, some a-hole left a cart in a lot (instead of getting off their lazy ass and rolling it to a cart corral) and the wind blew it into my car leaving a nice dent.
Sometimes as I walk back to my car in a lot and see someone do that, I'm inclined to grab the cart and roll it right behind their vehicle so they hit it as they back out. I've never done it, but I've been tempted. 
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fireflier
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Having been to your wonderful part of the world, I'm surprised they don't call them somthing like "wiakekekalaluouous".
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Sweet Witch
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How about a compromise? New carts that you can kick a tab and have the front wheels lock straight or go anywhere.
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Combat Chuck
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said by fireflier :I've never done it, but I've been tempted. I have. They're usually on a cell so there's no chance they'll notice.
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wilbilt
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| reply to lew_b
If I had to put a quarter in a cart for the privilege of shopping at a certain store, I would go elsewhere.
I almost never carry any cash - quarters included - so such a scheme would insure the loss of my business.
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dvd536
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| reply to Mele20
said by Mele20 :They are not "carts". They are WAGONS. Never call one a cart in Hawaii. some of the older set call them "buggies" and they call the city buses a "wagon"
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dvd536
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said by Mr Neutron :said by lew_b :A local law forces stores to put a device on the cart that chains the cart to the one in front of it. When you say "local," is this a town/city thing? Honestly, I'm having a hard time understanding what all the fuss is about. Most of the stores I go to have the carts that stop at the yellow line. Provided the carts never leave the lot, is it really so hard to deal with them in parking lot? Those are easy to defeat, a piece of metallic tape on the sensors renders em useless.
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dvd536
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said by Mr Neutron :Apparently, there are people selling "shopping cart tokens" that allow you to get the use of such shopping carts, but without having to use actual money to do so. Let me get this straight. they PURCHASE the tokens so they don't have to use money, isn't that using money?
sounds like a good scheme to keep the undesirables off the property.
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dvd536
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Cart anti tip n' roll feature |
said by 81399672 :said by sivran :Think invisible fence, only instead of dogs, it's for carts, and instead of electric shocks, it's a wheel lock. I have on purpose take them out by lifting the front wheels up and rolling on two back wheels. Doesn't work on the ones here. they have things welded to the back that won't allow them to roll while tilted back like this one.
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dvd536
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| reply to patcat88
said by patcat88 :said by Mr Neutron :Most of the stores that use this system have a yellow line painted around the parking lot, with signs (like the one pictured above) that warn shoppers not to push carts beyond that line. The Walmart near me has that system. That yellow line looks like the above pic by the end of the day because of dead shopping carts. Fun game for the kids, take a working shopping cart, run as fast as you can with it, let it go right before the yellow line, cart will go over line, then somersault once or a couple times. Wouldn't do that. the carts that use the gatekeeper system just roll harder when activated so the cart doesn't come to an abrupt stop and the ones that use the carttronics system it'd just grind the plastic off the bottom until the cart rolled freely again.
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