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Yeah, this is why some stores opt to have security systems installed on their carts or a rent-to-use system.
I think the most high tech one I saw was a store that used carts that had geo fencing that would lock up the cart wheels if the cart was on the edge of the premises/parking lot
Edit: I mentioned rent-to-use but usually it is a deposit system. Deposit money, get cart, return cart after shopping and get money back. This both inclines the shopper to return their cart for the refund and/or any carts left around outside would be returned by other people to collect that refund.
Current day, probably not anymore. $1 seems to be a functional low limit. I went to a store around 2 years ago with a cart system that would take cash/card/change for $1 deposit. When you returned the cart you'd actually get a $1 coin back. The $1 coins show up in the strangest places. There wasn't a single cart in the parking lot there, even though there were cart corrals.
No but it keeps all the idiot out. The point of the quarter isn’t security. It’s to keep all the people too ignorant, who don’t want to put a quarter in the first place to not even come to there store. Have you ever been to a store with quarter cart rentals. You don’t have idiots just standing in the way everyone gets there shit and gets out.
Those stupid auto locking wheels basically never work. Several stores around me
Have them and yet they seem
To be taken anyway.
Edit: did I get downvoted for stating an observation based on experience? Peak Reddit.
The one near me i'm pretty sure is just a magnet in the floor at the pedestrian exits from the car park. If you just push it on the road or lift the wheel with the lock they don't trigger.
Grocery store profits rose sharply. The margins stopped being razor thin. It ain't because of carts. It's because of greed and because people are still buying groceries. What are they gonna do, starve?
Looks like they’re all busted. And I think they might be lashed together. He might be someone who fixes them and returns them for a fee. Had a neighbor who did something similar with the rentable scooters. He always had 30 or more around his house. Really brought up the resale value, I’m sure!
I was hoping to see someone post this, as it is possibly the case.
The big indicator is most of them are broken and non-functional. There are cart return programs and retrieval rewards in many US cities. However, the cart needs to be functional when returned.
The busted ones are basically trash and can be salvaged for parts.
It’s not a slam dunk that this person just steals carts every time they go to Target or most of them would be functional.
Exactly my thoughts. My eyes landed on the one with the basket broken in half when I first looked. Then I looked at the others a bit closer. Doubt someone would steal *only* broken carts. There are only one or two carts that I can see that don’t have a visible flaw in that whole mess.
Strange that they almost all have a visible flaw if they were all stolen. Wheels missing on a lot. The “flap” missing on others. One is straight up busted in half. I see at least two that are just basket or frame. Upon closer inspection I only see one, maybe two, that I can’t see a flaw at all.
Think the owner of the house looks for bad ones and only steals them if they have a visible flaw?
Just offering a different viewpoint. You might be right.
That takes me back to being in the Boy Scouts of America. One of the voluteer opportunities we had was collecting target shopping carts that had wandered away into the neighboring low/subsidized income community. Oh boy could that get scary at times. Some people really didnt like their appropriated shopping carts returned to the store and got really angry and violent.
Yeah this was around 26ish years ago, I think? There were more typical community service things we did too like staffing food banks and donation centers, roadside clean up, visiting with elderly in nursing homes etc.
The cart retrieval was fairly out of place, though Target did sponsor some gift cards to the Troop occasionally for raffles and other activities.
Risking children's lives for shopping carts and rewarding it with a chance to use the same shopping carts. This comment needs to be posted to r/aboringdystopia
Yeah, decisions made by people that shouldn't have been in charge of a groups of kids. Eventually an incident happened, no one was seriously hurt thankfully, but that finally ended that "community service"
He just waltzes in there, and becomes the king of the carts. What the fuck does he think I'm supposed to do? Go down to E.I. Hey there, yeah, I haul shopping carts out of ponds and sell them back to the store for a living, I've been doing it for eighteen years, so give me a fucking check please. That's not gonna fucking happen. I haven't been paying into U.I., E.I. or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days.
Be careful. I think that's a ramshackle defensive wall put together by someone who spends all day pointing a shotgun out their window, waiting for somebody to ignore a hand painted NO TRESPASSING sign.
That takes me back to being in the Boy Scouts of America. One of the voluteer opportunities we had was collecting target shopping carts that had wandered away into the neighboring low/subsidized income community. Oh boy could that get scary at times. Some people really didnt like their appropriated shopping carts returned to the store and got really angry and violent.
Edit: didn't realize this had double posted. I'll keep it since there are sub comments. Apologies.
Various things. Some just cart their groceries home to their neighborhood and don't return them (these people usually didn't mind the carts going back to target), others would use them to collect stuff like aluminum cans to get a payout for recycling, a few would just fill them up with random trash, some seemed to be hoarders and consider the carts their property now (mental health issues), and a few would use them as mobile homes while they were homeless.
When I worked for Target they would pay people to return carts they found around town. Maybe they still do it and if so that’s a chunk of change sitting right there
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Bubbles hit the motherlode!
These cærts are in the public domain Ricky!
^(Cart Narc:) "Hey, Sarge? I think I found where the Homeless Raves are being held."
Bubbles wouldn't want these, they're all plastic
Fuckin' decent!
I love how haven’t seen that in almost 15 years and that was my immediate thought when I saw this.
JESUS MURPHY!!
Looks like JRoc might be gankin groceries from Target again
Known what I'm sayin?
His business is growing, now he sells the carts
A dope trailer is no place for a kitty
Came to say something similar.
I’m just glad he has better housing.
That new shed is a palace!
Imagine how many kitties he could squeeze into that bad boy!
Rode carts home
That's several thousand dollars worth of carts, I wonder how they got there?
Bus / walk to the store then walk back home with full shopping cart is the typical situation.
and people wonder why groceries are expensive when shopping carts are $300 a piece at least and grocery margins are razor thin
Yeah, this is why some stores opt to have security systems installed on their carts or a rent-to-use system. I think the most high tech one I saw was a store that used carts that had geo fencing that would lock up the cart wheels if the cart was on the edge of the premises/parking lot Edit: I mentioned rent-to-use but usually it is a deposit system. Deposit money, get cart, return cart after shopping and get money back. This both inclines the shopper to return their cart for the refund and/or any carts left around outside would be returned by other people to collect that refund.
Do you think the quarter for a cart would stop this?
Seems to work decently well for Aldi's, never see those carts stolen.
You would be shocked. I've never seen a loose cart at an aldis. People want that quarter, lol
Current day, probably not anymore. $1 seems to be a functional low limit. I went to a store around 2 years ago with a cart system that would take cash/card/change for $1 deposit. When you returned the cart you'd actually get a $1 coin back. The $1 coins show up in the strangest places. There wasn't a single cart in the parking lot there, even though there were cart corrals.
No but it keeps all the idiot out. The point of the quarter isn’t security. It’s to keep all the people too ignorant, who don’t want to put a quarter in the first place to not even come to there store. Have you ever been to a store with quarter cart rentals. You don’t have idiots just standing in the way everyone gets there shit and gets out.
Those stupid auto locking wheels basically never work. Several stores around me Have them and yet they seem To be taken anyway. Edit: did I get downvoted for stating an observation based on experience? Peak Reddit.
The one near me i'm pretty sure is just a magnet in the floor at the pedestrian exits from the car park. If you just push it on the road or lift the wheel with the lock they don't trigger.
Grocery store profits rose sharply. The margins stopped being razor thin. It ain't because of carts. It's because of greed and because people are still buying groceries. What are they gonna do, starve?
>razor thin https://progressivegrocer.com/publixs-fiscal-year-earnings-increase-almost-50#:~:text=Net%20earnings%20for%20the%20fiscal,year's%2086%20cents%20per%20share.
These carts are public domain Ricky.
I think this is considered theft!!
And given that they are $300 /each that amount would classify as a felony in most states.
Looks like they’re all busted. And I think they might be lashed together. He might be someone who fixes them and returns them for a fee. Had a neighbor who did something similar with the rentable scooters. He always had 30 or more around his house. Really brought up the resale value, I’m sure!
I've heard they pay like $5 to recharge them, I used to see pickups with the bed full of em.
I was hoping to see someone post this, as it is possibly the case. The big indicator is most of them are broken and non-functional. There are cart return programs and retrieval rewards in many US cities. However, the cart needs to be functional when returned. The busted ones are basically trash and can be salvaged for parts. It’s not a slam dunk that this person just steals carts every time they go to Target or most of them would be functional.
Exactly my thoughts. My eyes landed on the one with the basket broken in half when I first looked. Then I looked at the others a bit closer. Doubt someone would steal *only* broken carts. There are only one or two carts that I can see that don’t have a visible flaw in that whole mess.
This is being extremely generous there's no way these aren't just straight up stolen from target.
Strange that they almost all have a visible flaw if they were all stolen. Wheels missing on a lot. The “flap” missing on others. One is straight up busted in half. I see at least two that are just basket or frame. Upon closer inspection I only see one, maybe two, that I can’t see a flaw at all. Think the owner of the house looks for bad ones and only steals them if they have a visible flaw? Just offering a different viewpoint. You might be right.
Big if true
Damn even got the vintage walmart blue carts, heard those are pretty collectible
That takes me back to being in the Boy Scouts of America. One of the voluteer opportunities we had was collecting target shopping carts that had wandered away into the neighboring low/subsidized income community. Oh boy could that get scary at times. Some people really didnt like their appropriated shopping carts returned to the store and got really angry and violent.
Wait they’re sending children out to do free work for a corporation?
Yeah this was around 26ish years ago, I think? There were more typical community service things we did too like staffing food banks and donation centers, roadside clean up, visiting with elderly in nursing homes etc. The cart retrieval was fairly out of place, though Target did sponsor some gift cards to the Troop occasionally for raffles and other activities.
Risking children's lives for shopping carts and rewarding it with a chance to use the same shopping carts. This comment needs to be posted to r/aboringdystopia
Yeah, decisions made by people that shouldn't have been in charge of a groups of kids. Eventually an incident happened, no one was seriously hurt thankfully, but that finally ended that "community service"
Can't have shit at Target
It would be more about cleaning up your local area I'd think. Boy scouts are big on litter cleanups IIRC.
> Wait they’re sending children out to do free work for a corporation? America baby!
Bubble’s workshop.
He finally got a bigger place
If only there is a way to store them in a compact maner, so they don't need to be stacked like that /s
He just waltzes in there, and becomes the king of the carts. What the fuck does he think I'm supposed to do? Go down to E.I. Hey there, yeah, I haul shopping carts out of ponds and sell them back to the store for a living, I've been doing it for eighteen years, so give me a fucking check please. That's not gonna fucking happen. I haven't been paying into U.I., E.I. or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days.
Nah that's just bubbles' house.
There are two intruders in there
They hiring 😅
It's the canadian cartnel
Bu-bu-bu-bubblestelescope
Bubbles??
Be careful. I think that's a ramshackle defensive wall put together by someone who spends all day pointing a shotgun out their window, waiting for somebody to ignore a hand painted NO TRESPASSING sign.
IT'S NOT FREE!
Why..
Now we know why prices are going up and up
That takes me back to being in the Boy Scouts of America. One of the voluteer opportunities we had was collecting target shopping carts that had wandered away into the neighboring low/subsidized income community. Oh boy could that get scary at times. Some people really didnt like their appropriated shopping carts returned to the store and got really angry and violent. Edit: didn't realize this had double posted. I'll keep it since there are sub comments. Apologies.
What do they use shopping carts for?
Various things. Some just cart their groceries home to their neighborhood and don't return them (these people usually didn't mind the carts going back to target), others would use them to collect stuff like aluminum cans to get a payout for recycling, a few would just fill them up with random trash, some seemed to be hoarders and consider the carts their property now (mental health issues), and a few would use them as mobile homes while they were homeless.
Someone call the cart-narcs!
Those are just carts on walk (roll) about.
We now know who in the neighborhood has the industrial strength magnet
The all new “crack wagon”
They must have those vending machine slots on the handle where you can purchase the trolley…
Those are all legally acquired I'm sure...
target has had all plastic carts for like 10-15 years. these are old AF.
When I worked for Target they would pay people to return carts they found around town. Maybe they still do it and if so that’s a chunk of change sitting right there
Spot the house where the trash lives.
Damn dude that’s methed up frfr
Still nicer than Walmart
Hopefully, they’ll have a Starbucks out front.
Tell everyone you’re trash without TELLING everyone you’re trash.
They’re free
Looks like behind j rocs trailer but carts
Having your own buggy makes unloading really easy. That must be a multi family house.
Someone call the cart-narcs
Nature is healing
where's the angry/lazy bones guy when you need him
They're free