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To get really annoyed at supermarkets

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LordBrightside · 10/01/2016 10:15

who still require a coin to get a trolley? I mean, who steals trolleys nowadays?

Does my nut in. Many supermarkets don't have this outdated practice anymore and so often I don't have any coins on me.

OP posts:

SuburbanRhonda · 10/01/2016 10:54

Our Sainsburys is in the middle of a large student town, if they didn't charge £1 i doubt they would have any left!!!

All students are thieves, are they, hopping?

Fourarmsv2 · 10/01/2016 10:55

Our Tesco has a charity box to buy a token for £1.

Aldi will lend you £1 if you ask.

Farmfoods staff will wiggle their staff badge in the lock and open them.

I regularly don't have a £1.

Some take €1. That works better because I don't spend it!

WeAllHaveWings · 10/01/2016 10:56

Its not a big deal and certainly not worth getting annoyed over. Buy a cheap fake trolley coin and put it on your key ring.

YouTheCat · 10/01/2016 10:56

I have a Comic Relief pound for life thing. It cost a pound. Lots of charity shops sell them too. I use mine for the lockers at the gym because if it was an actual pound the chances are I'd spend it.

Trills · 10/01/2016 10:57

What's going to happen to all of those trolleys when the new £1 coin comes in?

reallybadidea · 10/01/2016 10:57

The little yellow top from a bottle of IV flucloxacillin works instead of a pound coin. And I'm not tempted to spend it

ilovesooty · 10/01/2016 10:58

I have a token on my keyring too along with my supermarket loyalty card. It's not exactly difficult to manage.

Feeches · 10/01/2016 11:01

I used to find it annoying but now I have an abundance of those coin sized key ring things. There certainly used to be a huge problem with trolley thefts when metal prices were so high. You would be amazed at how much a trolley costs in terms of metal.

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 10/01/2016 11:01

The road my DH grew up in has a specific trolley collection twice a week! His Mum & my Dad were were banned from playing in or near that road as children. It's not that bad these days bar the trolleys

WorraLiberty · 10/01/2016 11:02

If people can't manage a keyring, or remember to keep a £1 coin in a separate pocket/in the car, how do you manage to remember your carrier bags?

TheSpectreOfMorningtonCrescent · 10/01/2016 11:02

In my town I know of several people who wheel their shopping home in a trolley, keep it in their yard, then take it back the next day and do the same. I think they believe the pound has purchased them their very own trolley.

Iloveonionchutney · 10/01/2016 11:02

Surely anyone with a fob can steal a trolley then. So what's the point?

The point is you have to use the end of the chain on another trolley to get the coin/fob out therefore making you take the trolley back to where you got it!

whatdoIget · 10/01/2016 11:02

I've seen the trolleys being hauled from the canal that runs alongside my nearest supermarket. They were forced to change to trolleys that need £1 to get them, quite rightly imo

captaincake · 10/01/2016 11:02

I have a keyring that you put in, it releases the trolley and then you pull it back out again. It would cause me hassle to not have that.

ilovesooty · 10/01/2016 11:03

I'm wondering if the OP actually returns his trolley to the dedicated places after use.

LagunaBubbles · 10/01/2016 11:03

Of course trolleys still get stolen! You see them abandoned all over the place. I've got quite a few trolley tokens that I've collected when places give them away or they cost £1 in shops, they clip onto your keys. It's no big deal. Seems a bit of an over reaction to boycott supermarkets that don't want their trolleys lying all over the car park mind you!

captaincake · 10/01/2016 11:03

The point is you have to use the end of the chain on another trolley to get the coin/fob out therefore making you take the trolley back to where you got it!

You don't with the fob I have you just pull it back out when it's released the trolley.

ppeatfruit · 10/01/2016 11:03

AAh lordBrightside but going the supermarket to get a fob would mean WALKING into it and then out of it. No one actually walks anymore if they can help it do they?

Iloveonionchutney · 10/01/2016 11:05

Ahh didn't realise you could get ones like that Captain

WorraLiberty · 10/01/2016 11:09

Actually, there's a huge housing estate next to my local supermarket carpark.

The blocks of flats are about 20 odd stories high, so lots of people take their trollies up in the lifts, which I don't blame them for. It's the same when some tenants are moving in. They'll load the trollies up from the back of the van to save themselves endless trips with their belongings.

The local kids often hang around at the bottom of the lifts, and offer to return the trollies if they can keep the £1

SelfLoathing · 10/01/2016 11:11

The key ring fob doesn't help on its own because you still need to take it back to the trolleys, plug it in and get it back.

What you need is a key ring fob and a sawn off bit of the trolley chain to plug in to get it back.

As people said, it's not about stealing the trolley it's to cut down on labour costs for trolley retrieval around the car park.

SuburbanRhonda · 10/01/2016 11:12

And they say young people aren't enterprising enough these days

WorraLiberty · 10/01/2016 11:15

Exactly Rhonda!

sodabreadjam · 10/01/2016 11:16

We have a big problem in our area with stolen trolleys ending up all over the place including in a wildlife pond. We are actually urging our local Asda (it is their trolleys) to introduce the pound coin mechanism but they won't do it. They have something on the trolleys that's supposed to prevent them being taken out of the car park but it doesn't work - determined people lift them over the boundary line.

If you live in an area where no trolleys are stolen and dumped you are lucky.

Junosmum · 10/01/2016 11:17

I get annoyed when I've forgotten my pound but not as annoyed as when I try to drive in to a parking space and a trolley is in there!

Plus since the bag charge there has been an increase in trolley thefts.

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