Agreed. Just drawing the line between the link to Chinese Exxon page and (likely) its intended target customer (Chinese owned Volvo).
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GON
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SO,That’s a pet peeve of mine as well. Unfortunately, I have a physical impairment that highly restricts my mobility. It may sound rather biased, but I’m one of the few people that can actually justify leaving the cart where it is. Conversely, I like how they handle this in Europe, especially Italy. Each cart has a coin slot were you put in a one euro piece in order to unlock it from the rack like airport carts. When you’re finished loading your groceries in your car, you have to take the cart back to the queue where you interlock the cart into the other carts to retrieve your euro coin. That’s the incentive and it works very well. There are absolutely no empty carts laying around in the parking lot. This also reduces theft. They handle all the grocery bags in a similar fashion. Everyone brings their own cloth bags from home or pay the price for bags as you’re checked out. They’ve been doing this for decades, and this is one thing that I think would be helpful here in the states.
Very sorry about your physical impairment. I dated a beautiful young lady in the last century. She was drop dead gorgeous and had "points on her own" as described in a Bob Segar song "Night Moves". The young lady was born with a heart defect. She was under strict orders not to do anything physical strenuous, ever. If you saw this woman today, who would be in her late 50's, you would see a scar from her neck to her belly where she had her torso opened up to replace her defective heart valves with pig valves.
The carts in the parking lot were not from people with physical impairments (macro basis). It was from customers who have no standards or discpline. And a missed opportunity for parents with children walking into walmart, to teach them to all grab a cart and bring it to the store or cart corral.
Maybe I am just getting more than a bit concerned on how things appear to be going.
I can't remember where the store is located (Manteca or Pleasanton?) where they do this. It was a Dollar Tree of all places.That’s a pet peeve of mine as well. Unfortunately, I have a physical impairment that highly restricts my mobility. It may sound rather biased, but I’m one of the few people that can actually justify leaving the cart where it is. Conversely, I like how they handle this in Europe, especially Italy. Each cart has a coin slot were you put in a one euro piece in order to unlock it from the rack like airport carts. When you’re finished loading your groceries in your car, you have to take the cart back to the queue where you interlock the cart into the other carts to retrieve your euro coin. That’s the incentive and it works very well. There are absolutely no empty carts laying around in the parking lot. This also reduces theft. They handle all the grocery bags in a similar fashion. Everyone brings their own cloth bags from home or pay the price for bags as you’re checked out. They’ve been doing this for decades, and this is one thing that I think would be helpful here in the states.
There was another place that had carts that had some kind of brake mechanism that would lock up as soon as you took the cart out the door.
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
My WalMart has all new carts along with a remodel. Take care of them plz
Our local Aldys does this and it does work. On our first visit there a gentleman walks up to me with a quarter and offers to take my cart which I obliged.That’s a pet peeve of mine as well. Unfortunately, I have a physical impairment that highly restricts my mobility. It may sound rather biased, but I’m one of the few people that can actually justify leaving the cart where it is. Conversely, I like how they handle this in Europe, especially Italy. Each cart has a coin slot were you put in a one euro piece in order to unlock it from the rack like airport carts. When you’re finished loading your groceries in your car, you have to take the cart back to the queue where you interlock the cart into the other carts to retrieve your euro coin. That’s the incentive and it works very well. There are absolutely no empty carts laying around in the parking lot. This also reduces theft. They handle all the grocery bags in a similar fashion. Everyone brings their own cloth bags from home or pay the price for bags as you’re checked out. They’ve been doing this for decades, and this is one thing that I think would be helpful here in the states.
Everywhere needs to take Aldi's example and carts would then be returned almost 100% of the time.
GON
$150 Site Donor 2025
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
That's how Aldi does it, with a quarter.That’s a pet peeve of mine as well. Unfortunately, I have a physical impairment that highly restricts my mobility. It may sound rather biased, but I’m one of the few people that can actually justify leaving the cart where it is. Conversely, I like how they handle this in Europe, especially Italy. Each cart has a coin slot were you put in a one euro piece in order to unlock it from the rack like airport carts. When you’re finished loading your groceries in your car, you have to take the cart back to the queue where you interlock the cart into the other carts to retrieve your euro coin. That’s the incentive and it works very well. There are absolutely no empty carts laying around in the parking lot. This also reduces theft. They handle all the grocery bags in a similar fashion. Everyone brings their own cloth bags from home or pay the price for bags as you’re checked out. They’ve been doing this for decades, and this is one thing that I think would be helpful here in the states.
AutoMechanic
Site Donor 2025
Next time I’m in Arkansas I would love to sit down with you if you got that kind of stuff in your fridge lol
. I turn 21 this month haha. I’ve never tried any of those beers yet. Only tried the cheap stuff you can get at the store because that’s what my friends drink haha.
