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The British and shopping cart technology
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I've seen these locks in a couple of places in Canada too, Moncton and
Vancouver. The only type I've seen up here is the type with two fixed wheels and two casters. chem Peter Albrecht wrote: [snip] The French have solved this problem. There's a shopping cart manufacturer named "Caddy" near Strasbourg. Their carts are clever -- they stack and lock together. To unlock your cart and go shopping, you have to insert a coin. As I recall it was 10 Francs, a good amount of change (think Kennedy half or Susan B. Anthony dollar). You get your coin back when you return the cart and stack it with the others. There's a "key" on a chain just long enough to reach the next cart in the stack. Once you put the key from your cart in the lock of the next cart, your coin comes back out. Other than that, they steer just like 'murikan carts. Pete who used to go across the border to France to shop because they have American-style supermarkets, malls, and longer hours than the Germans. |
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 04:02:07 GMT, "ATP"
wrote something .......and in reply I say!: I reckon that human anture is such that any desposit that guarantees the return of something will be too large for people to willingly pay in the first place. Somebody gets $20.00/hour as pay. They "think" to themselves "it takes 3 minutes to return the cart. That's got to be one dollar deposit to be just worth it". I reckon some enterprising soul would make a fortune at $1 per cart, just picking them up. Or better still "return your cart for 50c" G With a cart, at least there is the fact that you _have_ to have the acrt, so a large deposit may be possible. Sam's Club tried them for a while but gave up on the system, I'm not sure why. I think it was more to try and get people to return the carts to the proper place than to keep people from taking them off the premises. ************************************************** **************************************** I could never _see_ myself as anything! Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music Please remove ns from my header address to reply via email !! ") _/ ) ( ) _//- \__/ |
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'round here, they just put them back to back, lock them together and
recover both coins. I strongly suspect that they bring two carts at a time so's they can do this. Before the Germans visiting France figured out that you're supposed to get money back, I would regularly grab an abandoned cart, return it to the stack, and get some free money... Pete |