Better be sure to have aquarter in your pocket. Shoppers are set to experience a change in a matter of days as retailers are being forced to take action under a new January law. Failure to comply with the new rule will see fines of up to $1,000 handed out, officials have warned.
It comes as city leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, aim to crackdown on a huge retail issue that is seeing city streets littered with abandoned shopping carts. From January 15, all retailers in the city will have to fit locking devices to their shopping carts. Or, they will have to hire a cart-retrieval company and register online to confirm they are complying with the new law.
City officials were forced to take action after increased complaints about eyesores and the rising cost of having to collect dumped shopping carts...
They should call in the Trailer Park Bpys.
ReplyDeleteHere's a suggestion....how about going for the source of the problem...the dirtbags who steal carts. Cops see you pushing a cart down the street you better have PROOF you own it. If not BIG fine and possible jail time. Cart theft is a symptom of the bigger issue.... homeless people.
ReplyDeleteAldis has that around here. You put a quarter in the lease while you are in the store. Works pretty good. But it is only Aldis.
ReplyDelete35 years ago this concept was witnessed all over the New Orleans area. Competitive youngsters lurked about in the grocery store parking lots, competing with each other no snag a shopping cart from someone too damned lazy to return their cart. Three years ago, Aldi's, in the Phoenix area, introduced the deposit system. Pretty sure all the opponents I argued with were on welfare. They expected the fools who paid for their food to return their carts.
ReplyDeleteFor many years we visited a Wallgreen's in Mesa AZ. They had a sysem (to our amazement) that let you leave the store with the cart, but at a given distance the wheels would lock up. Must have had a wire in the pavement /concrete that acted like an invisible fence. Sure stopped the theft of carts.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this suddenly "new' for you people? Europeans have had this for decades. We just use a little plastic chip the size of a Euro. No drama. Everyone knows how it works. Geeze...
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