Darn Safeway cart peddlars

[Ice]

Ok, but do you simply put in a quarter and then you can take the cart? I don't see how a quarter prevents theft.

[Two Fivenagame]

I always thought the quarter was a reward for sticking the metal-thingy into the right hole....

[Knut]

Losing one cart for a quarter is not a big deal... Makes it expensive to take more. I think superstore will lock them up outside at night... saves them from hauling them i and out every day.

Likely the extra few seconds it takes to get a cart will likely prevent thefts as well.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Ice

I don't understand the cart charging thing at all really. But, if it only costs a quarter to get your hands on a cart, does that really eliminate stealing them? Almost anyone can come up with a quarter, right? What's the real point of this?

It probably has less to do with theft and more to do with getting lazy a-holes to put their carts away instead of just leaving them in the parking lot to roll around and hit parked cars.
I can't believe how lazy some people are.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Ice

Ok, but do you simply put in a quarter and then you can take the cart? I don't see how a quarter prevents theft.

It prevents theft of a bunch of them. Yeah you could throw in a quarter and steal one, but it makes taking any more than that kind of useless.

[worth]

If a cart is just left in a parking lot and a bunch of kids come by or a bum walks by, they are going to take it (sterotypically and generally speaking). If the carts are in the corral, and they actually make you look in your pockets for 25 cents and insert the money and undo the chain, i'm guessing there's a lot less of a chance of someone taking one.

That and because the cart has your (omg) 25 cents in it, you're gonna take it to the corral to get your money back, which prevents people driving into them.

I can remember before they had them. I don't think Wal Mart does, do they? Look at their parking lot. Carts everywhere.

[ken0042]

Plus when I was a kid I would sometimes head behind the "projects" and round up a few random carts and bring them back to the store. A few times the manager would see us doing this, asked what we were doing, and would give us free stuff from the bakery. The trick was to come on Saturday just before closing time. I'd make a buck and come home with a bag of goodies that were destined to become "day olds."

[Ro]

When I lived in Red Deer, I heard stories about someone who used to go around the Port-O-Call Safeway parking lot and even inside the store, and use a "cart master key" that he had procured somehow to unlock carts so he could take the quarters.

Could be how the carts the OP mentioned lost their quarters?

[Reggie Dunlop]

"... @%&$* ing machine took my quarter!"

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Ro

When I lived in Red Deer, I heard stories about someone who used to go around the Port-O-Call Safeway parking lot and even inside the store, and use a "cart master key" that he had procured somehow to unlock carts so he could take the quarters.

Could be how the carts the OP mentioned lost their quarters?

Carts don't just start with quarters in them at all times. Only once unlocked is there a quarter in them.

Only way to make money with that is to unlock a whole bunchand dupe unsuspecting people into the swaparoo

[Doctordestiny]

Originally Posted by Papi34

LOL i love how upset the op is about a quarter. Ill tell ya what PM me and ill give you a WHOLE loonie!

If you think it's the quarter, you misunderstood. I'm wondering how someone could get the cart out without the quarter and then would have the gall to sell it to somene else knowing the person can't get their money out. It's unethical abd ballsey.

[Byrns]

When I used to work there long ago we used a paper clip. (They had different locks on them back then)

Probably these people are grabbing a cart that the staff had been using inside the store.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

What peeve's me off is when people leave the carts in the accessable parking stall! It's only 10 more feet to the corral!! Lazy SOB's! Damn all you bipedals!

[Huntingwhale]

Last time l went to SupraStore, l lost TWO quarter!! Check out how upset l was!!



Just wanna let you guys know that hundreds of children die everyday, and for only a quarter a day, most could be fed.

[SixtySix]

I agree with the OP

[REDVAN]

What's a Safeway cart?

I only know about Safeway buggies.

For way too much info... wikipedia!

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Ice

I don't understand the cart charging thing at all really. But, if it only costs a quarter to get your hands on a cart, does that really eliminate stealing them? Almost anyone can come up with a quarter, right? What's the real point of this?

Its easy, it gives people a reason to put the carts back in a centralized location instead of having carts all around the parking lot making the buisness look more like a professional operation and less like a dollar store.

I have no problem putting in a loonie or quarter, I hate the panhandlers in those lots.

[Byrns]

It's a trolley not a buggy.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Byrns

It's a trolley not a buggy.

Why dont we just toss another shrimp on the barbie while were at it mate?

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

#1 Peeve: The Woman in front of me didn't put the "stick" behind her stuff, I had to do it.

Not a personal attack on you but this I will never understand. I never put the stick behind my items. Why? Are people afraid my wrapped goods may touch theirs? I leave a few cms of space behind the person and put my items down. What is the need to create a barrier? The cashiers see the space and never have taken my items and placed them with the person in front of me. I hate that "don't touch my stuff, breath my air or how dare you be in my vicinity" attitude.