Sainsbury's Trolley Park Moan

forgotmyname

Is it just my local store?

The trolley bays take 2 on one side and 2 on the other seperated by a steel bar with how many chains...

ONE.... So when you return the trolley, Nobody the otherside can return one. And the trolleys on your side are restricted to the same size trolley i just put there.

Except it doesnt quite work like that. Some clever sparks have found out if you rotate the trolley backwards and wedge it partially under the bar you can get the chain from the trolley on the other side to reach across. Wedge the next trolley under the side rail and you can get 3 in there now.

You need a 3foot bar to get them out though and a couple of £ coins.

Annoyed me more than usual this morning.

Gothicfairy

The local Tesco's here has 3 kinds of trolleys and each has a different coin thingy. They all take quids but they have different shaped return things.
No problem you would think but they have put these different kinds of bays around the car park and yet in some moment of wisdom didn't think to mark them so you walk around like a zombie trying to find the right kind of bay to return the trolley you ended up with and even if you try to work it out based on what is already in the bay ( if anything at all) it does not mean that is the right trolley and that the owner managed to get their money back. Some just seem to give up and dump them, guess all those quids are helping with the profits though.

Pure genius that one.

DCFC79

Theres always some dim witted bright spark who decides not to apply common sense but do what they want. No i dont think its just your store OP, luckily where i work we dont have the trolley locks but there is always someone who decides to just shove the trolley into the bay.

sarahg1969

DCFC79 wrote: »

Theres always some dim witted bright spark who decides not to apply common sense but do what they want. No i dont think its just your store OP, luckily where i work we dont have the trolley locks but there is always someone who decides to just shove the trolley into the bay.

That's a bugbear of mine. Why can't people just stack them neatly, instead of giving them a push from 8 feet outside the bay, and hoping it goes in?

globalds

Blame all the chavs who see trolleys as a free gift from the store.
If they didn't keep walking off with them they wouldn't need to be chained up.

texranger

well our local Asda have these trolly bays around their carpark, but for some reason they dont like trollies kept in them as they have staff running around removing the trollys from these bays to place alongside the store so you cannot use the footpath outside the store for all the trollys asda staff have placed their.

anmarj

its even worse when somebody just shoves the trolley into a car parking space and it bounces off your car and just walk away as if nothing has happened.....

forgotmyname

anmarj wrote: »

its even worse when somebody just shoves the trolley into a car parking space and it bounces off your car and just walk away as if nothing has happened.....

Few years back i spotted a lone trolley making its way down the asda carpark, Took the rear light out of a lexus.

Whoever released it to freedom must be proud, Like all the people who released mink into the wild, Which killed most of the wildlife.

Its not big and its not clever, Trolleys are meant to be caged. :beer:


Anyway, I am tempted to start bringing the Sainsbury's trolly home after each shop. They have a bit in the paper every now and then saying how many go missing and how much it costs them.

To me it appears they are selling them for £1, No means of returning them. Remember to return the bottles 10p? back, Or am i that old?

Maybe its long term hire £1 for as long as you like?

charlie-chan

I am very wary of using trollies or even moving trollies left on the high street.

I had finished my shift (around 8.30-9pm) in my previous job and as I was leaving, I saw two trollies (for my store) chained together in an odd way. I thought I would be a good samaritan, put a £1 in and take the trollies back. As soon as I did that, some scum of the earth started harassing me for the money etc as "they were his trollies" and all that! I had to have the store's security guard escort me to the bus stop after as the scum had been quite mean.

I don't understand why people can't put trollies back in the right place but after my bad experience, I would rather just leave them where they are in the trolley bays.

DCFC79

sarahg1969 wrote: »

That's a bugbear of mine. Why can't people just stack them neatly, instead of giving them a push from 8 feet outside the bay, and hoping it goes in?

The mind boggles when i see it,

NBLondon

charlie-chan wrote: »

I am very wary of using trollies or even moving trollies left on the high street.

I had finished my shift (around 8.30-9pm) in my previous job and as I was leaving, I saw two trollies (for my store) chained together in an odd way.

Well, I have a Sainsbury's up the road from me and after discovering a trolley-shaped ding in my tailgate where some bright spark had brought the trolley home and tried skateboarding with it, I made a habit of grabbing any I saw floating around the road/pavement and taking them back. If there happened to be a pound coin still in it - well that's my fee for doing a public service. (Made about 8 or 9 pounds so far).

The chained together in an odd way usually indicates there's no coin to be had. Presumably because some lazy git has taken the shopping home in a trolley and can't be arsed to walk the 250 yards back with it. There is one family who keep a trolley or two parked in their front garden until such time as a Sainsbury trolley-wrangler repossesses it.