"l not -l" > wrote in message
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> On 18-May-2013, George Leppla > wrote:
>
>> On 5/17/2013 6:17 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>> > The cart thing is asinine. I recall when a grocery store in Avon, CT
>> > tried that (Big Y?) and damned near went out of business as a result
>> > and
>> > quickly removed the offending devices.
>>
>>
>> IN PA, a local town made using those 25 cent deposit shopping carts a
>> law. They wanted to keep the carts on the property, not in the
>> street.
>>
>> Where we used to live in Shreveport, there was a bus stop about 1/4
>> mile
>> from the local Walmart. Every morning you would see 10 to 20 Walmart
>> carts at that bus stop... and every morning Walmart had to send people
>>
>> to bring them back.
>>
>> George L
> Last summer I went to Portland OR for a week. There was a Safeway a
> couple of blocks from my hotel and I shopped there on a couple of
> occasions. They solved the wandering cart problem with wheels that
> locked at the property line; you could push the cart anywhere on the
> parking lot, but if you tried to go further the cart would not roll.
>
> The quarter cart at Aldi is no problem for the regular shopper who
> thinks ahead. After the first trip, I knew I needed to keep a quarter
> in my wallet; it's no problem to take it out to get the cart and put
> back as soon as I remove it from the cart.

Just what I do Most of our supermarkets operate in the same way so we are
used to it.

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