Members DieselTech Posted December 27, 2024 Members Report Posted December 27, 2024 I know you said your Keychain is working out OK. But for a flat low profile fastner. Look into Glove Snaps. Quote
AlZilla Posted December 28, 2024 Report Posted December 28, 2024 I'm probably going to feel like a dummy when I get the answer, but ... What is this thing for? Are shopping carts in the rest of the world locked up somehow? Quote “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” - Aristotle
Contributing Member fredk Posted December 28, 2024 Contributing Member Report Posted December 28, 2024 Yes they are. They are fastened to each other with a short chain which is released by inserting a coin, usually a £1 coin here. When you are finished with your shopping you return the cart to the line of the rest, re-insert the locking chain fitting and you get your coin back. Its aim to stop people stealing the carts Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members BlackDragon Posted December 28, 2024 Members Report Posted December 28, 2024 43 minutes ago, AlZilla said: I'm probably going to feel like a dummy when I get the answer, but ... What is this thing for? Are shopping carts in the rest of the world locked up somehow? They had these in NY while I was there. Quote
Members Cumberland Highpower Posted December 28, 2024 Members Report Posted December 28, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, AlZilla said: I'm probably going to feel like a dummy when I get the answer, but ... What is this thing for? Are shopping carts in the rest of the world locked up somehow? I think it's more of a way to get the customer to put the cart back (reducing labor) than to keep the carts from getting stollen. Only place in the USA I've seen this is at ALDI. (A German company). If you've ever been to an ALDI you'll see they have about 1/2 the employees they should at any given time. They use a quarter at Aldis. I'd definitely return the cart if a whole Pound Sterling was at stake :O I went to Lidl a couple times in Romania, there customers buy some plastic poker chip at the counter and then put it in the cart in lieu of a coin. (Or in Lieu of a Leu?)!! At least they did it when I was there last. In NY, hard to say, from what I see on tv they lock pretty much everything up, not just the carts? Edited December 28, 2024 by Cumberland Highpower Quote
Contributing Member fredk Posted December 28, 2024 Contributing Member Report Posted December 28, 2024 2 hours ago, fredk said: Its aim to stop people stealing the carts Here is definitely this Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members Klara Posted December 28, 2024 Author Members Report Posted December 28, 2024 (edited) Can't be that because if you really want or need a cart, you pay the Euro, Pound or whatever. Since they mostly cost over a hundred Euros when bought new. (It's that example that makes me ask in places with a deposit on beakers whether it's ok to keep it. For people in other parts of the world: Germany and France (and probably others, but I stick to what I know) try to reduce plastic waste and at events where you'd have gotten your drink in a disposable plastic cup, you nowadays get a reuseable one which you are supposed to take back to the counter and they'll return the deposit. Except sometimes the cups/beakers/whatever have really nice pictures printed on them and make useful souvenirs and so people keep them. Which at 1 Euro per plastic cup is ok, as far as I've asked... At the soup festival it even was ceramic cups, but for 2 Euros I believe. A potter must have gotten rid of her overstock...) Edited December 28, 2024 by Klara Info added Quote
AlZilla Posted December 28, 2024 Report Posted December 28, 2024 Well, thanks for all that shopping cart and drink cup information. I could see it working. In my part of the world, our politicians outlawed plastic shopping bags and mandated a 5 cent fee for paper bags. Some people go to all sorts of lengths to avoid "paying" for grocery bags. It's become quite a bone of contention. Quote “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” - Aristotle
CFM chuck123wapati Posted December 28, 2024 CFM Report Posted December 28, 2024 11 hours ago, fredk said: Here is definitely this Wouldn't they just put the coin in and steal the thing??? Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Contributing Member fredk Posted December 28, 2024 Contributing Member Report Posted December 28, 2024 (edited) We are hijacking this thread. I'll ask for this discussion to be moved In the mean time; if honest shoppers return their cart to the cart park to get their coin back it stops there being a lot a loose carts in the car park which are easy pickings for the thieves. In the UK scrap metal gets a good high price, so if you can get the metal for nothing, ie steal it, you're 'quids in' as we say I was just reading that in area of England thieves stole £100,000 of electric cable which is part of a railway electric system. The trains can't run until its replaced. I've known thieves to have stolen a 15t bridge! as well as man-hole covers, the plaques on war memorials, a town's metal public artwork and so on Some shops have tried a self-locking wheel on the cart. It locks up when the cart tries to go out of certain area but that didn't stop the thieves, they just lifted the cart away, so they went back to the coin operated chain lock. Of course most regular shoppers keep a 'trolley token' on them because it happens you never have that £1 coin on you when you need it Over here paper shopping bags are rare but free. The plastic bags range from 40p/50c to about £1/$1.25 but plastic bags used by butchers and greengrocers are free. Nearly every one has a 'bag for life', about £2 to £4, that they use all the time for their shopping Edited December 28, 2024 by fredk Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
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