It's not like it's actually costing you money though. And it's not a new thing nor is it restricted to Woolies - my Coles had this 20 years ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeanoH
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It's not like it's actually costing you money though. And it's not a new thing nor is it restricted to Woolies - my Coles had this 20 years ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeanoH
Go and buy one of their keyring tokens, you'll have it for life.Quote:
Originally Posted by stevo68
I don't shop with them as their range is too small and they usually have only one checkout working.
Hear, hear Ron. The irresponsible cretins then return a few days later to repeat the cycle. I've seen scum stripping the wheels from a trolly, on the footpath. The coin thing can be a bit inconvenient, but I follow the practicalities of it from Woolies' point ov view. I've often thought that that if all trollyable(:D) access points were fitted with groove, as on escalators, the low lives would not have the energy to remove trollies.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
on a lighter note.i thought i would give my trolley to a kid the other day so he could push the trolley back and claim the dollar.He quickley wipped out a piece of wipper snipper cord removed the dollar and left the trolley in the carpark.:eek:
The local trolly boy must love you Stevo, it's not a donation, you get your $1/$2 back when you return the trolly.:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by stevo68
Can you come up with a better soloution?:confused:
Do they work at Woolies?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
Like a cattle grid for trolleys?Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
No, a grid would just go bumpety bumpety bumpety bump, because the rails run the wrong way.:D:p Escalators are ribbed, in the direction of travel, stopping the wheels rotating.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoadie72
Havent they been making alot of the plastic bags biodegradeable anyway? They are made of polymers, so why not use biopolymers made from glucose then when they go to the tip or into landfil, where they are often resused as a garbage back as Dobbo said they can just break down over time. The whole gripe was that they just lasted forever in landfil, but if they break down whats the issue with using them?
As for the trolleys at Aldi, i personally dont care if they ask for a $2 coin to unlock them, you get it back as Ron said, but each to their own, its just aldi's way of lowering prices even more, the money they save on not having to pay trolley pushers to run around the country side collecting them is put back into the store to lower running costs and lower the prices of the stuff we purchase.
But back to the original point of the post i think the issue for the larger supermarkets and the cardboard box idea is the logistics of having the boxes where they are easy to access. In the small towns where the checkouts where not as busy someone could duck out the back and get one, but given the distance to the back of a wollies of a Coles from the front of house ducking out the back for a box would prove time consuming, not to mention the space that lots of unflattened boxes takes up.
Ahhh....learnt something else new today...won't be passing that onto the missus...she already holds certain views in regards to myself :o.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Look I can understand the why....and would probably be more prevalent in some area's as opposed to others. My view has changed slightly as I.....ummm....errrr....haven't got the gold coin back....but having lent a few $$$ here and there...mainly to older folk when other supermarkets in the area don't have that in place. I can understand in city area's but not good old Mudgeeraba :),
Regards
Stevo