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To push super market trolley home

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ghostspirit · 07/01/2017 13:36

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?

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TheThingsWeAdmitOnMN · 07/01/2017 15:31

I'd be way too embarrassed.

TheThingsWeAdmitOnMN · 07/01/2017 15:32

Mind you, that applies to Granny Shoppers too 😬

MoonfaceAndSilky · 07/01/2017 15:35

The local kids hang around the entrance to the lifts and offer to take the trolleys back, if they can keep the pound coin

You must live in a better area to me, the little oiks around here just force the pound out and throw the trolley in the river

Bubblysqueak · 07/01/2017 15:37

You would be superseded how many 18 yr old had the granny shopping trollies at a music festival I went to lady summer, they're ideal for carrying booze. They come is some really nice designs now and loads of people in the halls of my uni have them as the supermarket won't deliver and people who live in halls aren't allowed to keep a car at uni.

PurpleNurple69 · 07/01/2017 15:38

Please don't cart your messages home in the shopping trolley - that is beyond awful! If you did that in my home town you'd be classed as a 'gadgie'

19lottie82 · 07/01/2017 15:42

It's theft and chavvy.

BusterGonad · 07/01/2017 15:55

It's just god damn shameful but sometimes necessary!

Bubblysqueak · 07/01/2017 15:56

Surprised stupid phone!

LockedOutOfMN · 07/01/2017 16:05

We did it a few times when we were students and it wasn't that great - the wheels aren't designed to go on outdoor surfaces and you soon notice how uneven the pavements are when trying to push a trolley across it. Loading the pram would probably work better, or can you take an extra pair of hands with you?

PurpleNurple69 · 07/01/2017 16:14

Those trolleys aren't subtle once you get them out the store are they? Particularly if you have a lot of glass bottles rattling around and making a right bloody racket going through the car park!

Sparklingbrook · 07/01/2017 16:14

Are you thinking of' borrowing' a normal trolley or one with a baby seat?

WorraLiberty · 07/01/2017 16:14

It's a bleeding trolley. That the op said she would be returning. Unbunch your panties.

It's at times like this that I love PaulAnkaTheDog

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 07/01/2017 16:23

Ours all lock at our local store markets.

Online shop?

I can barely push the trolley from Aldi across the car park- I'd end up on the news if I tried to get home with it

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ghostspirit · 07/01/2017 16:23

I never done it in the end. I was put of by the comment about the trolley being hard to push.

But if I had I would have defently returned it. As I would not want several trolley hanging round the house.

Can't on line shop for lidl. My local icelands does not home deliver. I can only home deliver for asda which is crap. or sainsbury. Tesco wont accept my card.

Lidl had like a mini size trolley which was good I could still get a reasonable amount. But I could not go ott. Don't think I done buggy much good though

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Meridien · 07/01/2017 16:25

I said I'd never get a shopping trolley, all those tartan beasts and things with giant garish spots on. Now I have this one - www.rolser.com/online/en/shopping-trolley-i-max-castejon.html#/chassis-dos2/castejon-bodegon, four wheeled, the wheels swivel and it folds easily so I can hang it on the supermarket trolley while I shop. It runs well. I'm disabled but can handle it well enough. I do a big monthly shop online at Waitrose, though, the trolley is for in between those. I like Waitrose in particular, I like the product range available online (Tesco and Sainsbury's should take note), if they have to substitute your choice with something more expensive, they only charge you the price you would have paid, spend over £60 and delivery is free, and they deliver in the slot I've booked and phone me if there's a problem. One thing about the trolley is that as a lone shopper I can get through the checkout quicker than I could otherwise, I just dump everything back in the supermarket trolley, supermarkets have enough space for me to then transfer everything to the trolley away from the checkout, and leave the trolley for the staff to return to the trolley park. A reasonable adaptation under the Equality Act 2010. Works well for me.

SoupDragon · 07/01/2017 16:38

£106 for a trolley!!

Meridien · 07/01/2017 16:57

Whoops, it was £72! There are several different prices in that list, I didn't take notice of which individual model I had selected when I copied the URL - apologies. The most expensive are the stair climbers. Mine has four wheels and swivels. It's an investment for me because of quite severe spinal stenosis and arthritis. It's made a big difference to me as I can't carry a reasonably full shopping bag but I can use one of these, if it's a walking day, I average two or three of those a week. I should have bought it sooner. :-)

MrGrumpy01 · 07/01/2017 17:03

Loads of people do it round me, to the extent that the council will heavily charge the supermarkets for any they round up. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I saw someone walking with one near me. Well I might near my house because it means they've pushed it a couple of miles but closer to Tesco and I would barely notice.

fruitbats · 07/01/2017 17:05

Buster your post at 15.31 has had me pmsl

londonrach · 07/01/2017 17:06

Its stealing!

melj1213 · 07/01/2017 17:13

YABU - trolleys are provided for the convenience of the customers in store and from getting things from the store to their cars/transport home. They are not provided for you to drag halfway round town because you don't want to be inconvenienced by planning your shopping trip. Not to mention it's hard keeping enough trolleys in circulation during busy periods as it is, if everyone took their trolley home just because they were walking, and even if 90% of them actually brought them back, we'd still be almost out of trolleys within a few weeks and they aren't cheap to replace.

I have always held this view, but even more so now I work in customer services in a supermarket - we get at least four or five calls a week from annoyed people who have had a trolley dumped in their garden/outside their back gate/in the middle of their street etcetc ...and that's just the ones we get told about by a third party. We then have to either ask them to bring it back if possible which annoys people as they feel like the phone call is their duty done esp if they didn't take it or send someone out to collect it.

It's not too bad if it's just across the road/round the corner since our porters don't mind a quick five minute off site stroll (not so much in wet/winter weather though) but a few weeks ago I had a call from a really pissed off woman who had come out of her house to find someone had dumped a trolley in their street the previous evening and due to the bad weather we'd had the night before the trolley had been blown into her car, causing quite a bit of damage. Not only that but she lived 3 miles from the store and we couldn't send one of our porters to walk the 6 mile round trip to collect it, so we had to send a home shopping driver to collect it, which had a knock on effect to his route. We also had to deal with the hassle of dealing with this irate woman who tried to blame us, since the trolley came from our store she felt it was our responsibility to pay for the damage despite the fact it was a customer who mis-used the trolley by taking it off site.

WeAllHaveWings · 07/01/2017 17:16

It is stealing, whether you intend to return it or not. Would it be okay for me to take my NDN's car to work tomorrow as long as I am intending to return it when I get home? Of course not!

The trolleys are for use in the store and carpark. If everyone took their trolleys home just for a wee while there would be none left in the shop for the customers.

BusterGonad · 07/01/2017 17:19

Fruit bats I pissed myself with embarrassment! Of all the people to see whilst pushed a fucking trolly home! The one and only time I've done it too! At that moment I swore to never again lower my standards, my pride was dented!

Soubriquet · 07/01/2017 17:21

Sainsbury's are pretty good with online delivery

We spend around £50 a week there for a family of 4

BeyondTheStarryNight · 07/01/2017 17:22

Take a wheely suitcase?

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