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Default OT Supermarket Trolleys

On 24 Mar, 20:49, "mark" wrote:
The warning says *something like: *Will come to a Sudden Stop at the Red
Line.


The big new Tesco in [[Bradley Stoke|Sadly Broke]], Bristol has the
trollies outside, shop inside and a sufficiently magnetic device in
the floor near the doors that it locks the wheel on every trolley you
try and use. The brake is a rubber block on a swinging plastic arm.
The only trollies that remain usable are those where someone has
wrenched the plastic arm sideways and wedged it out of the way on top
of the castor. Ghastly shop, and the "customer service" people are so
unhelpful they blame the poor shopper for being unable to work the
trollies.

Mind you, the guy that had working in the petrol station there a few
weeks ago surpassed even that. Probably the Angriest Man in Retail, he
got so irate with one driver that he ended up banging the card reader
on the glass window in front of him and screaming. Very funny to
watch, but I can't imagine Tesco really intend their staff to behave
like that.