Gerald Miller wrote:

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:29:03 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


"Steve W." wrote:

Must be a strange place. I just picked some up from Wal-Mart and have
seen it in the Hannafords, Price Chopper and Save-A-Lot stores around here.


Have your Save-A-Lot stores switch to the coin operated shopping cart
that needs a quarter to unlock it from the other carts?
Been using them here for years. Residents of the apartment complex
across the park, bring them home from the grocery stores (four within
1/2 mile) and abandon them in the parking lot or on the street. They
get their quarters back by lying them on their sides, top to top and
coupling them together in pairs, which means that the guy with the
large flatbed trailer who makes a good living returning carts to the
stores has to have a few quarters on hand. Another trick is to clip
the chain and release the quarter. One local store has installed locks
requiring a $2 coin.


The Save-A-Lot stores around here had the electronic wheel locks that
prevented them from rolling out of the parking lot. They are missing on
the new carts, but the buried loop is still in place for the older
carts.


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