Morrisons to remove coin-activated locks from their trollies - as nearly half of customers don't lik
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I went to ASDA and they've installed these breaks on the wheels that initiate when you try to leave the carpark with them.
I felt so shitty when the trolley denied me. :(
[QUOTE=Sableye;45350391]ya they're on their way out though as even cheaper chains like family dollar, dollar general and wallmart's mini walmarts eat into their market, they only make it because you can pretty much buy everything there with EBT cards (food stamps for you foreigners)[/QUOTE]
Umm mate, [url=https://corporate.aldi.us/fileadmin/fm-dam/news_and_awards/Press_Release_2014/POY__ROTY_Press_Release_FINAL.pdf]Aldi are opening around 130 shops a year in the US[/url]. Hardly pulling out.
They are literally dominating the market in the UK to the point that Tesco and Sainsburys are worried, and are spreading healthily in the US.
First time I've ever heard of anyone complain about these.
Like, keep a coin in your car, there's literally nothing more to it.
Well they are possibly changing the pound coin, so it'd cost them a fortune to get all their trolleys nationwide refitted.
[QUOTE=pixskull;45349782]You have Aldi in America?[/QUOTE]
There's literally one three blocks away from where I live.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;45350983]Umm mate, [url=https://corporate.aldi.us/fileadmin/fm-dam/news_and_awards/Press_Release_2014/POY__ROTY_Press_Release_FINAL.pdf]Aldi are opening around 130 shops a year in the US[/url]. Hardly pulling out.
They are literally dominating the market in the UK to the point that Tesco and Sainsburys are worried, and are spreading healthily in the US.[/QUOTE]
Aldi are fucking brilliant, Sainsbury's etc should be worried. I've literally halved the price of my grocery shopping since I started going there.
Aldi may be cheaper, but I still keep buying shit I don't need whenever I go there.
Uh I wish our full-size trolleys had these at our store. In the day it's the service dept's duty to collect the trolleys every few hours because people just leave their trolleys all over the place, but because there are almost never enough people in service at a given moment to do anything other than serve customers and because most of service is young chicks when we work in a dodgy neighbourhood, I have to give up my time in grocery dept to do trolley runs. If it's not me who collects them, then the duty manager or even the store manager has to waste their time collecting them. It's just a waste of valuable time.
All these people saying "I've never seen a trolley astray in X and they don't have these mechanisms"
That's because someone's been employed to round up trolleys all day for the lazy and inconsiderate bastards who leave them wherever they like.
My sister had her car for 4ish days before a trolley rolled into it and made a nice dent in it in Waitrose where there's no coin mech.
Fucking no thanks. Don't give people the option to be lazy pricks cause they wont pass up the chance. Last year some toss bag litterally pushed his trolly away when he was done and my fucking luck would have it hit my car. I had a bad day already so i vented my anger on this twat and got him to pay for the damage, if it was just a scratch id possibly just left it but he fucking dented the bodywork thats how hard it hit my car. And what made it worse was the guy acting as if it didnt matter and he shouldnt have to pay because i' shit happens'.
So no thanks morrisions.
I worked at a grocery store as a bagger/cart retriever for months, you bet your fuckin asses I wanted these at our store. I'd sometimes have to walk all the way to the end of the plaza our store is in, in the parking lot of some subway to get carts people brought all the way down there because they're terrible humans. Every store should have these.
I love these things and the efforts local supermarkets go to avoid them.
Over here supermarkets were required to attach coin-activated locks to all their trolleys because the local creek was breeding trolleys at a rather alarming rate.
They weren't obligated to actually use the locks though, so every trolley had this useless lock on it that did nothing for years.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45349697]Imagine not being intelligent enough to keep a coin in your car at all times for the shopping cart.[/QUOTE]
Lol, yes, go on, call people dumb because they don't have spare change in the center console. Yeah. That's [i]brilliant.[/i] /Sarcasm
Not everyone bothers with coins. It's increasingly common for people to go completely paperless when it comes to money, using debit cards instead of cash, and people who do that don't generally have coinage in their car. The only reason I have some coins in the glove box lid of my truck(Which, <3 Ford for this, actually has slots for nickles, dimes and quarters molded into it) is because when I was going to high school the soda machines which kept me awake and functioning throughout the day didn't take plastic.
[editline]10th July 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Reagy;45349946]Aldi and Lidl are pretty much everywhere, not really surprised they are in the US.
Still back onto the coin lock removal, it's a fucking dumb idea. Both ASDA and a few Tesco's around me dont have them and you [I]always[/I] find the fucking trolleys everywhere but where the stores are. I've found them in housing estates, fucking middle of the road on the main roads, in the middle of the fucking park, in a car park thats a good fucking walk away from where the store is, in the shopping centre that is yet another good fucking walk away from the store and in rivers because you're never complete without a fucking trolley sat in the damn river.
Keep the fucking coin locks.[/QUOTE]
Or get rid of them because they're pointless. People defeat them with keychains, and hey, if you leave it out in the lot someone else will grab it and use it. And they'll probably leave it out in the lot too.
Dear God, keep them, and add them to supermarkets that don't have them.
It pisses me off seeing shopping carts in the middle of a parking lot. Disgusting how people are too lazy to just push it to the area that's, what, a few yards away?
If you leave your cart in the middle of a lot, I'm going to assume you're a lazy scumbag.
I was always fascinated by these at Aldi when I was a kid
"Rummaging for change"?
Don't they have a cash exchange machine next to them?
The local Auchan does, you put in a note and get your equivalent in 10 ruble coins so you can open the lock.
[QUOTE=TestECull;45353846]Or get rid of them because they're pointless. People defeat them with keychains, and hey, if you leave it out in the lot someone else will grab it and use it. And they'll probably leave it out in the lot too.[/QUOTE]
The point isn't to "defeat" them, it's to encourage you to return it because you've put something of value in there. as far as i know it doesnt unlock unless you take it back to the spot where you hook it back in to retrieve your coin / keys. the keychain basically serves the same function as keys to a car.
[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;45355120]The point isn't to "defeat" them, it's to encourage you to return it because you've put something of value in there. as far as i know it doesnt unlock unless you take it back to the spot where you hook it back in to retrieve your coin / keys. the keychain basically serves the same function as keys to a car.[/QUOTE]
Here, you need to take it back to where you took it from and lock it to the trolley infront of it. This causes the lock to release the coin. And it's like that everywhere and there are absolutely zero trollies in places they don't belong, it's great. Almost everyone uses a token instead of coins though, including me.
You do get these outside the UK by the way. I'm on France right now and both Intermarche and Carrefour use 1 Euro coins.
As for this example though, no big deal. I used to be a shareholder. Changing trolley locks doesn't change how incredibly fucked this company is.
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