To push super market trolley home

[ghostspirit]

I was thinking about going shopping and then pushing the supermarket trolley back to my house. It would be easyer than over loading the pram. But thenot now I have written it it seems it feels I am bu. I am aren't I?

Notso I've been browsing them on Amazon and am torn between a purple one with white polka dots and a zebra print one. Nothing like the brown leatherette of my childhood!!

shelagh the technology is described here...

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2179891.stm

It was state of the art fifteen years ago!

YABU because I'm sick of seeing abandoned trolleys everywhere.

Why not ask the supermarket if they're OK with it - as you would normally ask someone before removing their property temporarily from their premises? That will give you the definitive answer to your question.

I wouldn't do it sorry. Not because I'm particularly precious about people who nick supermarket trolleys, just I'd be embarrassed to walk down the street with my nicked super market trolley. And would be horrified to be stopped for nicking a super market trolley by a member of staff or be reported to the police for it. I'd do two trips, get a taxi, over load the pram, whatever, before I walked off with the trolley.😂

It's theft

Not if she intends to return it

Waitrose in Greenwich has the anti-theft thingy in their trollies. I wasn't even trying to steal one when I got caught out - there was a rare Pokemon just outside of the store and I wanted to nab it.

Buy your own shopper or get an o line delivery.

You're only allowed to take the trolley home if you've been shopping in your pyjamas.

How on earth would the trollies lock as soon as you reached a certain

They have magnets and radio controls in the trolley wheel
System and when you pass the magnetic Line at the car park exit it airomatically locks the wheels. They have them at the supermarket near my mums house as she lives in an area with lots of students who used to take the trolleys home.

It's theft

Not if she intends to return it

I seriously don't think that's a defence if the shop stops you as you're walking away with their property.

a rare Pokemon just outside of the store and I wanted to nab it

EssentialHummus

I wish people wouldn't say things like "that's theft" when it's clearly not theft as a pretty crucial part of theft is having no intention to give it back.

I use a shopping trolley here it is all loaded up ready for me to get the bus home. My teens will even be seen out with me with it as long as I don't make them pull it!

I used to overload the pram and put a massive rucksack on my back. I probably looked worse than pushing a shopping trolley tbh, but I lost loads of weight getting it all up the hill to our village!

How far is your house from the supermarket?

Doesn't mean you can necessarily use something belonging to someone else in way that you haven't been expressly permitted to though (e.g. borrowing something to briefly use elsewhere rather than on the premises such as this trolley).

I wish people wouldn't say things like "that's theft" when it's clearly not theft as a pretty crucial part of theft is having no intention to give it back.

So shops are happy for you to take their property as long at you return it afterwards?

Waitrose here will disable the anti-theft lock for their members who live within walking distance. Or will send a member of staff with elderly customers. You should ask first.

I do that... but I always return it or get one of the kids to return it.
I'm not in a position to pay for a new pushchair if this one gets broken and I don't have the money to spend on taxis.

YANBU provided that you dump it in the canal afterwards

From this legal site

The following elements need to be established in order for an individual to be guilty of the criminal offence of theft:

1. Appropriation
2. Of property
3. Property belonging to another
4. Dishonesty
5. Intention to permanently deprive

The OP is not guilty based on point 5) and probably point 4)!

I wish people wouldn't say things like "that's theft" when it's clearly not theft as a pretty crucial part of theft is having no intention to give it back.

So shops are happy for you to take their property as long at you return it afterwards?

See my second post.

I've done it once, it was too mortifying to ever repeat.

Our local Sainsbury's have locking technology on all their trolleys

I thought this was normal now

I would go for online delivery

I'd be too embarrassed to do it though