Thread: Another "yuppie hippy" based profiteering con

Originally Posted by stevo68

I had to use a basket the other day as I didnt have any gold coins.

Go and buy one of their keyring tokens, you'll have it for life.

I don't shop with them as their range is too small and they usually have only one checkout working.

Originally Posted by p38arover

And the problem is?

You get the money back when you return the trolley.

I've seen people steal trolleys and put them onto trains to take their shopping home. I see them take them home, empty them out, then push the trolley out into the street, a long way from the shop. I see them dumped in the local creek. I don't blame the supermarkets for wanting a token.

Aldi offer a key ring token which can be used instead of a gold coin.

(No, I don't shop at Aldi.)

I'd like to see more of the trolleys that lock their wheels when people try to take them out of the shopping centre car park.

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() access points were fitted with groove, as on escalators, the low lives would not have the energy to remove trollies.

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.

Originally Posted by stevo68

I wonder if same chain that one now has to make sure you have a gold coin donation to use their freakin shopping trolleys.
Regards

Stevo

The local trolly boy must love you Stevo, it's not a donation, you get your $1/$2 back when you return the trolly.
Can you come up with a better soloution?

Originally Posted by p38arover

Go and buy one of their keyring tokens, you'll have it for life.

I don't shop with them as their range is too small and they usually have only one checkout working.

Do they work at Woolies?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

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() access points were fitted with groove, as on escalators, the low lives would not have the energy to remove trollies.

Like a cattle grid for trolleys?

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Like a cattle grid for trolleys?

No, a grid would just go bumpety bumpety bumpety bump, because the rails run the wrong way. Escalators are ribbed, in the direction of travel, stopping the wheels rotating.

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.