Home Depot security shopping cart

[GON]

Went into home Depot to pick up some buckets near my Daughter's home in Castle Rock, CO.

Next to the door was a cart, I grabbed the cart and went to shop. Ten seconds later the cart became super hard to push

Discovered this Home Depot has security carts, that will lock one wheel if it senses a crime.

First for me seeing this.

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[Hirev]

Had that issue at a walmart recently.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

They don't let you go far enough! They stop before the end of the lot, in the middle of one of the last spaces

 

[Vercingetorix]

Load it up with cement, when it locks push/pull it until the tire gets a flat spot. Leave cart there. Teach them a lesson.

 

[daves87rs]

Kroger has them too

 

[Big E]

Load it up with cement, when it locks push/pull it until the tire gets a flat spot. Leave cart there. Teach them a lesson.

Yes...**** them for trying to stop thieves.

 

[AZjeff]

Load it up with cement, when it locks push/pull it until the tire gets a flat spot. Leave cart there. Teach them a lesson.

Why?? They're trying to prevent theft. That just stinks for the next guy who gets the cart.

Maybe it's a smart cart and knows you don't need a cart for a couple buckets?

 

[Vercingetorix]

Yes...**** them for trying to stop thieves.

Maybe you missed it. The cart stopped in the store. **** them for crappy equipment.

 

[Big E]

Point taken.

If it wasn't for the dirt bag thieves, we wouldn't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Our Walmart recently (duh) discovered exactly how massive the shoplifting losses they were experiencing and closed every "self check" register down. Now that was frustrating but at the same time they get what they deserve. This store must have 20 maybe even a few more regular register set ups that they never hardly ever had workers to operate them. When they do it is not more than 3-4 at any time. I always self check anyway. When covid hit, I just got in a habit of self checking my stuff. I loved it because I can go so much faster then the poor attitude workers.

Any way. I know they were getting robbed big time. I stood in line at "self check" one day and with a Walmart worker standing there _ supposed to be watching... saw a woman bag an entire full basket of food and all sorts of things I know had to be worth near $500. She did not check one item. She stood there and bagged it all while I watch the Walmart woman looking every where but at this theft in progress. Then the kicker was once she was done, she just walked right past the Walmart woman who was supposed to be watching for exactly what she just did. This woman looked aside , did not ask for her receipt YET she made sure to ask me for mine. Angered me to no end. A few weeks later they shut the whole "self check" areas down. Now they have re-opened but at each one there is a Walmart "loss control" employee watching very close. I am sure that type of theft is going on everywhere. Burns me up that many simple items have to be under lock and key , like razors, cologne, deodorant etc.... Pathetic.

 

[CleanSump]

Shopping cart distance brakes became law in my MD county this year. Theft is already illegal. But oh well. A company will be fined if their carts are found beyond their parking lots. People have been walking them away and leaving them in neighborhoods and they are used by homeless to transport their belongings. You see them abandoned all over near the subsidized apartment complexes.
The State has a law making cart theft specifically illegal. To me that's like making murder a hate crime. What? - is the person more dead because it was a hate murder? Is the cart more stolen because it is a shopping cart?
The Aldi budget chain groceries require a quarter deposit to unlock a cart. You get your quarter back if you return the cart and insert the lock chain tab.

 

[Chris142]

We have had those at every store here at least 5 years. Sux cause I like to park far away and the wheel locks at the imaginary boundary before I get to my car.

 

[xspeedy]

Almost better to bring your own folding wagon to go shopping.

 

[loneryder]

Walmarts in Fl have that so they can’t be taken out of their parking lots.

 

[Wolfshead]

Kroger has them too

Oh Yes they do. I see many carts "Upside Down " in their area due to problems. On a good day you might get a cart to drag around the store and do you own Self-Checkout. "F" Kroger and their Corporate Greed !

 

[Lubener]

My lawn mower does the same thing when it senses someone incompetent at the controls.

 

[97prizm]

Went into home Depot to pick up some buckets near my Daughter's home in Castle Rock, CO.

Next to the door was a cart, I grabbed the cart and went to shop. Ten seconds later the cart became super hard to push

Discovered this Home Depot has security carts, that will lock one wheel if it senses a crime.

First for me seeing this.

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They've had them in Boulder County for a while. I think Home Depot and others were tired of the homeless population stealing them. I've read that shopping carts can cost as little as $80 for cheap plastic ones to as much as $300 each for the type with the sensors. I'm sure they get a bulk discount.

 

[97prizm]

Almost better to bring your own folding wagon to go shopping.

I'm seeing that more often with the elderly and retired population.

 

[Donald]

Went into home Depot to pick up some buckets near my Daughter's home in Castle Rock, CO.

Next to the door was a cart, I grabbed the cart and went to shop. Ten seconds later the cart became super hard to push

Discovered this Home Depot has security carts, that will lock one wheel if it senses a crime.

First for me seeing this.

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What crime were you committing?

 

[Donald]

As if locking up half the good stuff in the store was not enough