Home Depot security shopping cart
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Out local Walmart(s) have a unique safety feature on their carts - zero maintenance. It's hard enough to push them around in the store. With those big auto centers, you'd think that they could fix a few of them.
Flat spotted cart wheels are epidemic at my local Costco. The employees that retrieve carts from the parking lot stack dozens together in a long line, then use a motorized pusher to move them. Come time to turn the stack, and the employee sidewise skids the stack, tearing up the wheels.
I thought the homeless also took the carts to use as BBQ grills.
GON
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Going IN TO the store with a cart by the entrance to buy the following to remove what I think is a salt bridge in daughter’s water softener.
The local Dollar Tree and Ollie's Bargain discount stores have a low tech version of those geotagged shopping carts with the electronically braking system. The 8 foot tall attached pole prevents the carts from exiting the store. Go figure!
It used to be a thing way back. Saw it in the 70s. It was the upright folding metal wheeled baskets that were pulled behind. Older folks would walk to the nearby market, go shopping, and walk them home. I don't think they walked the store with them. There must have been a place to park them at the front.
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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They all should just do like ALDI and set up the quarter required to get one.
Yes, but electronic with a NFC reader to charge a credit card would be the new version. But transaction costs would be costly.
You know what's really crazy? On a news segment just a couple of nights ago the reporter was showing how Home Depot has their power tools locked up. Not sure how they developed this but if you still manage to steal a power tool it won't work until activated at the register. When I worked at a VW dealership one of the mechanics said that all vw's are in "transport " mode and won't go over 25 mph until they're re-coded at the dealership.
4wd
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Not that all do but I wonder how many Wal-Mart or other employees were in on "helping" people not pay for stuff? There was a bank in a Wal-Mart near me many years ago that got robbed. Unfortunately one of the bank employees tried to hatch a plan with his friend to "rob" the bank and get away, hoping to split the money. The police weren't born yesterday. They both got caught and faced lengthy jail time.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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No doubt in my mind this woman employee at Walmart is/was in on the theft I saw happen. The best part is. I saw her there this week still working.... Like many things today. It is best for me to keep what I saw to myself. Even thought it could be proven what occurred I am sure on their security tapes. The whole thing likely would come back to bite me if I attempted to inform them what happened. "No good deed goes unpunished!" I have seen that quote come true too often and in fact it has blown back on me several times. YET , at times I still can not stop myself from trying to help someone if they are in need.
If you were an 85+ year old woman.
Both of my grandmothers had these things in NYC to bring home groceries. My mom had one here in Texas that she sometimes used to move groceries from her car to her apartment rather than making multiple trips. But sticking to the main topic, there is a subsidized apartment complex near me and I see abandoned carts along the main road running past it on a regular basis. My contact in city code enforcement often gets assigned to retrieve them. Time for the auto locking wheels that I've seen on the carts at HEB!
Owen Lucas
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Inside look at an older generation of locking shopping cart wheels:
