To think using a supermarket trolley to take your shopping a mile home is not ok

[Jigjigjigsaws]

Friend of mine lives in a house which is about a mile away from the nearest big supermarket, although there is a Tesco Express about 10 minutes away. She drives but doesnt own a car. Found out recently that when she does a big shop she pushes it the mile home in a supermarket trolley and then leaves the trolley in the street. Apparently, the trolley always disappears after a few days. Something about this has really lowered my opinion of her. She's not broke and could easily afford an Uber a couple of times a month. Just after some other opinions in case I'm being too judgemental.

Brilliant idea. But I would keep the trolly in the shed and use the same one each time!

Or just buy my own trolly!

A neighbour did this when we lived in London. Hated seeing the shopping trolley just abandoned on our pretty street made it look really scuzzy. We wrote a polite note asking them not to. We then heard the trolley being pushed angrily up,and down the street! We didn’t open shutters to see who it was. But the trolley was never seen again so it did work

Usually it's a no, it feels dishonest and is littering etc.

However, I did do this in one block of flats I lived in, totally guilt free. Technically it wasn't allowed, but I lined about 5 mins walk from the supermarket, along the dockside lined with other flats. It was really common to do it, most people did, and the local custom was that you brought one back with you next time you went that way (supermarket was next to the tube entrance) so people did the journey at least once most days. The supermarket turned a blind eye to it, presumably because the vast majority of trolleys were returned. But that was effectively an informal local custom. Otherwise it's a no. I wouldn't judge someone doing it very occasionally or if they couldn't carry bags, but I would just them if they just discarded the trolley and didn't take it back.

boredinthehouse there was a whole Facebook saga about a lost shopping trolley round my way a few years. It actually got quite hilarious. It wasn't even from a shop we have near by. It appeared to be making its way down hill moving a small distance each night. They local theory was it didn't know it's way back to its shop so was heading downhill towards the Thames so it could live with the other abandoned trollies at the bottom of the river. I wonder now if he made it.
Go trolley go. Return to your family....

@boredinthouse

If someone in our village pushed their shopping home in a trolley and then let the trolley in the street it would be all over the Facebook village page and everyone would know. It's very strange behaviour.

This is why I’d never live in a village. It sounds so dull and stifling.

@Jigjigjigsaws I was about to say YABVU, as not everyone has a car, and there's nothing wrong with wheeling your stuff home in a trolley, as I assumed she took it back afterwards. Quite disgusting to dump it. Not gonna lie, I would report her to the store.

Don’t most trolleys have that locking device thing now so that they stall if you try to leave the car park?

I honestly can’t imagine walking through the streets with a trolley, she must look crazy.

Trolleys are not biodegradable as far as I know.

What exactly does she think happens to it after she dumps it? Does she also leave her rubbish and bulky items in the street waiting for someone to clean up after her?

I really dislike people like her.

There’s an estate in my hometown where people seem to collect shopping trollies in their front garden. I can understand keeping one and pushing it to and from the supermarket. But having two or more seems a bit weird. Oh well, at least they’re not chucking them in the river. I don’t know who used to be responsible for that, but it was a real nuisance.

@boredinthouse

If someone in our village pushed their shopping home in a trolley and then let the trolley in the street it would be all over the Facebook village page and everyone would know. It's very strange behaviour.

@StillCoughingandLaughing

This is why I’d never live in a village. It sounds so dull and stifling.

Yeah because nobody in town and city suburbs, or on big estates, or in the cities and towns EVER judges anyone else, and slags them off. Only in villages does this happen...... 🙄

I thought most of them had security devices that locked the wheels once they left the premises. I know when my DS was on Scout camp they couldn't park the minibus in the supermarket car park so decided to use the trolley to take the shopping to the minibus and the wheels locked half way there. They carried the trolley to the minibus, unloaded it and then carried it back to the supermarket!

StillCoughing my local Facebook group is brilliant. It's hilarious. Full of in jokes about local things and a 'rivalry' with the next area over groups (some people are in more than one group). Definitely not dull.

It would be a bit better if she kept it and used it the next time, rather than stealing a new one each week.

Still not great though.

I think trolleys cost about £100 each so I find it appalling that she just dumps it, whyever doesn't she just buy a wheeled shopping bag? It wouldn't put me off a friend who did this but I'd think she was a little but skanky.

Yeah because nobody in town and city suburbs, or on big estates, or in the cities and towns EVER judges anyone else, and slags them off. Only in villages does this happen...... 🙄

But I only see people from villages actually boasting about this...

I used to live near a Heron store, didn't drive and always done my main food shop there.

The staff we're lovely and allowed us to take the trolley and bring it back. Although i only lived 10 minutes away.

YANBU!

Yanbu she should Bring it back, dishonest and lazy

I thought some trolleys now have devices on them to lock up the wheels

@StillCoughingandLaughing

Yeah because nobody in town and city suburbs, or on big estates, or in the cities and towns EVER judges anyone else, and slags them off. Only in villages does this happen...... 🙄

But I only see people from villages actually boasting about this...

Not sure I was boasting.

Taking shopping home in it, perfectly reasonable. Leaving it in the street, flytipping.

Just get a wheeled shopping trolley ffs its not hard

Take it back, then yes ok

Dump it then no.

I know at one point supermarkets had something in the trolleys that stopped this from happening

Abandoning it in the street is being unreasonable.

It's not taking the trolley back that's the problem.
Why not suggest she keeps it until her next visit and takes it back.