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None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (5 children)

My local store uses these but they lock up if you bring them out to the 2nd row of parking spaces out front. It's enough to get the cart to your car, then you go to return it and it's totally locked, so everyone just shoves them into the planters in a big pile of tipped over carts instead of physically lifting the whole thing and hefting it to the cart returns to return it. The store has signs everywhere now telling people not to throw carts into the planters, and the employees know the problem, and the city has evidently complained multiple times, but district management evidently refuses to believe it's got anything to do with the cart locks and I was told by an exasperated checker that they're apparently considering getting security guards to confront people and make them return carts?? lmaooo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

They'd be better off getting security guards to help people carry shit to their cars.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

apparently considering getting security guards to confront people and make them return carts?

Oh that's going to go down just great. How long until some rent-a-cop ends up under a car?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

3 minutes. I give it 3 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Oh no, not security guards! What are they gonna do, lecture me?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some Walmart GM must have a brother or something with an anti-theft wheel business because wtf?