Locking or not, at least the American buggies don’t have rotating back wheels. I don’t know what Australia & England were thinking, but these bad ideas got imported where I live nom & they are needlessly difficult to maneuver.
My grocery store just got these and I didn’t know about it. Mine went off as I was going out the door and I was like “wtf is happening here” until the self checkout girl saw and came over to release it.
You ever seen those invisible dog fences? Once it crosses an electrical barrier it triggers an alarm of sorts and in this case I assume it engages some sort of brake mechanism.
Yeah, at least in germany these are all just magnets. And outside of the store there is a long metal line, and when you roll over it, the wheel with the magnet completely locks. This happened to me as a kid, and it was sheer impossible moving the cart back to the store.
Just more proof of how stingy we are here in England. But if I worked at a supermarket and people did this, I’d just put away the carts and pocket the cash everyday.
The cart boy would easily find a solution to that weak level of protection. Couple of furniture dollies under a cart instantly restores the rollability and then he could disassemble the wheels back at the shed
My local store uses these but they lock up if you bring them out to the 2nd row of parking spaces out front. It's enough to get the cart to your car, then you go to return it and it's totally locked, so everyone just shoves them into the planters in a big pile of tipped over carts instead of physically lifting the whole thing and hefting it to the cart returns to return it. The store has signs everywhere now telling people not to throw carts into the planters, and the employees know the problem, and the city has evidently complained multiple times, but district management evidently refuses to believe it's got anything to do with the cart locks and I was told by an exasperated checker that they're apparently considering getting security guards to confront people and make them return carts?? lmaooo
Yup. Never not returned a cart. The day it becomes actively frustrating to do so is the day I place it somewhere really inconvenient out of spite. Maybe figure out the managers car and corral it in.
LOL, I went a little wide of my point. And my point was, this is the kinda crap you see in densely populated environments. Having experienced the city and country, I’ll take the country all day long. Mammals were not meant to live in packed populations.
Found out the hard way breeding rats in college. Long story, but they had 6 litters one Sunday morning. By Tuesday, those babies were all eaten, no trace. tl;dr: You pack people together, you get bad behavior.
And I hadn’t seen it as an anti-homeless thing! That idea has meat on the bones. Yet another case of American’s treating the symptoms and not the disease. Wasn’t it Chruchill who said, “You can count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted every other possibility.”?
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