Shopping trolley crackdown

liability said :

Your basic shopping trolley cost the larger retailers around $160. The ones with children’s seats, etc cost up to $300.

I am still surprised that others don’t follow the Aldi line and require a $1 or $2 deposit for the trolley. Aldi has no need to employ trolley finders as all of its trolleys (or very close to it) get returned. Places like Woolies lose about 5% of their trolleys each year, according to the most recent figures. Not only do woolies have to pay people to collect their trollies they are also up for the cost of replacing the 5% that go missing each year.

Woolies at Kippax already does.

Deref said :

Inbuilt tasers, activated when taken out of the parking lot.

Good idea, but how about something less harmful, like one of those scorpion type things that go off when people steal money, so that if the trolley travels more than 100m from the supermarket it goes off andcovers the person in purple dye…..

liability said :

Your basic shopping trolley cost the larger retailers around $160. The ones with children’s seats, etc cost up to $300.

I am still surprised that others don’t follow the Aldi line and require a $1 or $2 deposit for the trolley. Aldi has no need to employ trolley finders as all of its trolleys (or very close to it) get returned. Places like Woolies lose about 5% of their trolleys each year, according to the most recent figures. Not only do woolies have to pay people to collect their trollies they are also up for the cost of replacing the 5% that go missing each year.

At my nearest Aldi, a hundred metres from a Woolworths, the chains are sometimes snipped off so someone can steal $2. The must be very annoyed when they sometimes get an Aldi trolley token.

And I often see idiots (usually dressed like well-off public servants) pushing a Woolworths trolley around inside the Aldi.

IP

Call the store and tell them if it isn’t gone by the end of the day you will stick it on eBay. Shortly afterwards someone came in a people mover, loaded the trolley in and returned to the store

magiccar9 said :

Felix the Cat said :

I’m sure too that the Govt has more important things to do than collect trollies anyway so it wouldn’t be too high on the priority list.

I did realise this, but then they shouldn’t offer the service through ‘Fix My Street’ if they aren’t willing to provide it. Hence the reason I refused their attempt to pass the buck.

To pass the buck to the persons ultimately responsible, you mean? Fair enough, I’m lazy too, but if a trolley were bothering me enough that I’d hassle TAMS over it then I would at least take the extra 60 seconds or whatever and ring Woollies. Points for obstinance though, so well done.

Felix the Cat said :

I’m sure too that the Govt has more important things to do than collect trollies anyway so it wouldn’t be too high on the priority list.

I did realise this, but then they shouldn’t offer the service through ‘Fix My Street’ if they aren’t willing to provide it. Hence the reason I refused their attempt to pass the buck.

Your basic shopping trolley cost the larger retailers around $160. The ones with children’s seats, etc cost up to $300.

I am still surprised that others don’t follow the Aldi line and require a $1 or $2 deposit for the trolley. Aldi has no need to employ trolley finders as all of its trolleys (or very close to it) get returned. Places like Woolies lose about 5% of their trolleys each year, according to the most recent figures. Not only do woolies have to pay people to collect their trollies they are also up for the cost of replacing the 5% that go missing each year.

ScienceRules said :

steveu said :

I would think that by now Coles and Wollies would have woken up to using a deposit based system the likes of which used by Aldi.

This!

Surely it’s in their interests as well as that of the community.

Yep. I suspect the legislation could be partially aimed at encouraging them to take the hint. It’s not as if these two couldn’t afford it, they control most of the food and petrol supply chains in this country.

poetix said :

Deref said :

Inbuilt tasers, activated when taken out of the parking lot.

Deref! You forgot your Garema Place stocks fantasy for once. Surely that could incorporate trolleys?

😀 Good point Poetix! Hmmm – I wonder what uses we could find for shopping trolleys…

steveu said :

I would think that by now Coles and Wollies would have woken up to using a deposit based system the likes of which used by Aldi.

This!

Surely it’s in their interests as well as that of the community.