To get really annoyed at supermarkets

[LordBrightside]

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 Many supermarkets don't have this outdated practice anymore and so often I don't have any coins on me.

My daughter gave me a pretty disc to use for trolleys. Great choice for a gift from a child - she loves seeing her present still regularly used years later.

all the supermarkets here have wheels that jam if you try to push them out of the car park. no coins needed.

I've got a keyring like this, it releases the trolley and you can remove the keyring straightaway so technically I don't need to take my trolley back (but I do).
I've tried the small round ones but I occasionally have problems with my fingers/ hands and sometimes couldn't get a grip on the side of the disc to pull it out, I have seen other people struggling with this too, especially elderly people.
I also use it at the local hospital where you have to put a coin in to borrow one of their wheelchairs.

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This is the price for 1 trolley.

If I owned a shop I would want to protect my investment.

Each trolley costs hundreds of pounds, and they are stolen regulatory!

Seems a particularly ridiculous reason to choose which supermarket to go to, but knock yourself out.

I can see the point, as it stops trolleys being blown all over the place and rolling into cars, but it is one more thing in the obstacle race that has become shopping.

Remember to pay for the privilege of parking;
find a space that isn't disabled (fair), parent and children (not);
Find a trolley and insert coin;
Do shopping, finding all items;
process through self-service;
pack in bags provided by self;
Pay (another whole issue)
wheel back to car and unload;
return trolley to claim back coin;
queue to leave carpark!
Not worth having shopping delivered now, small family.

Plus, asked 3 times yesterday to pay for IKEA bag (my own).
Bought cushion in John Lewis, stuffed into too small bag, (my own), arrived back home with the top soaked by torrential rain.

I shall be most interested to learn precisely how much of the 5p charged for plastic bags actually reaches charities.

Euros fit most trolleys, I keep one in my purse for them. when i was at uni i 'borrowed a trolley to move house in down the road

I bought a trolley token a while ago. It doesn't work!

Good grief LordBrightSide what a ridiculous reason for not using a particular supermarket!

Most supermarkets round here have the £1deposit thing. It's not just the taking them away from the shop altogether thing - which has been reduced MASSIVELY since it was introduced, so clearly it is a deterrent for a lot of people, but it's more the 'putting them away in the car park' issue, so they don't just roll into peoples cars and damage them, or block spaces in a busy car park because people cba to wheel them into a trolley store. When they have a £1 of their own money in there, they are much more likely to return them than abandon them.

It does annoy me too but we have 2 supermarkets in our town, one with coin-release and one without. The trolleys from the "without coin-release" supermarket are frequently to be seen loitering on street corners, often in small gangs. I am reminded of Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where the shopping carts are actually mobile and the "nymph" form of shopping malls...

So I can entirely see why the other supermarket still has coin-release trolleys, because theirs almost never go wandering around.

We also have really cool baskets-on-wheels with long handles - the coin-release trolley supermarket has loads of these, and they're excellent for not wearing out your arms when you don't want too much and don't have a coin handy; the other supermarket brought in a few to trial it and guess what - they all got nicked as well! Much to my disgust, I might add, as they were bloody useful when I had a pushchair to manhandle around too.

I live in Scotland. Ayrshire. I haven't seen a supermarket trolley in a canal since the 90s.

I have several trolley tokens. At one point they were hard to buy anywhere. It bugged me when a supermarket has trolleys which require £1 but don't sell tokens.

I have a key fob that I use in trollies.

That said I get the vast majority of my shopping delivered. Its a student town and no doubt taking a trolley with 10 bags in it you could not otherwise carry is still very tempting. I mean how else do you get 10 bags home if you don't have a car? A taxi is expensive and if you are on low income I can understand why people do it.

Is that Garstang Shockers?

I've been caught out once too often in my local Aldi as the Sainsburys and Waitrose don't need them.

I've now got a €1 coin in my jacket pocket as DH was always nicking my 'Aldi pound' that I keep in the car. I've yet to try it but I believe they fit.

Ooh I wouldn't move to Dublin if I were you then. I don't think I know one supermarket near me that doesn't require coins for trolley release. Some require a €1 coin and others a €2 coin. It'd be a total minefield for you. Plus there'd be no where you could shop with your promise never to return.

I had a £1 coin trolley substituted for a non-coin trolley in B&Q about 3 months ago. I was over at some particular shelves (and away from it slightly) and they must have switched my existing shopping to the new trolley. I didn't notice until I went to put it back and get my coin.

Someone needed the pound I guess.

You get get a token you attach to your key ring (usually they are £1 for a charity)

sainsbury's is the only one that still does it near us, but they share a carpark with a massive retail park, so i can understand it.

i just use a trolley token.

My local Iceland has poles on the trolleys which mean you cant even get them out of the door.

Asda doesnt charge for the trolleys which is good because I never have change on me.

Somebody leaves a trolley just across the road from my house on a regular basis. It really annoys me as it could easily roll into the road and cause an accident. I have never seen the person who does it though.

It is a good 5 - 10 minute walk from the supermarket and it is always left in the same place.

Many people are lazy and irresponsible. I completely understand why supermarkets use the token/£ system.

I got a free euro token when I bought a Reisenthel shopping bag. It lives in the car ashtray pen pot. I agree, the system is more to keep the carparks tidy than to temporarily charge you.

I'm glad when my local supermarket finally brought in the £1 for a trolley. Not so much because they were stolen (though some were) but to put an end to the lazy selfish shoppers who can't be arsed to put one foot in front of the other to return their trolley to the trolley bay.

Funnily enough the thought of losing their pound concentrates their minds wonderfully.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes - I have a ton of those keyring thongs with the token onthat I have gathered at events and stuff for free, we also have them at work for promo events, I fasten one round the handle of all my shopping bags so I am never without also one on my purse zip. I am never caught short

I SO want to see you shopping with your keyring 'thong' fastened around the handles of your shopping bags!!!