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  • NBLondon
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    SuzeQStan said:
    There was a downpour whilst we were shopping for food and heading back to the car with our shopping we found an abandoned trolley with £1 in the locking mechanism. Saw a fair few abandoned carts so made £5 (and a trolley coin) returning them to the trolley store.

    That's impressive - I've never had more than 2 on the same trip. Coinstar gave me 22p today though
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    It was bucketing it down @NBLondon - luckily we don’t mind a bit of rain and it all counts towards our daily steps 😂
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    SuzeQStan said:
    There was a downpour whilst we were shopping for food and heading back to the car with our shopping we found an abandoned trolley with £1 in the locking mechanism. Saw a fair few abandoned carts so made £5 (and a trolley coin) returning them to the trolley store.
    I reported a distant trolley at a store once and was told that if someone didn't bring it in it would be collected by the local council and would charge the shop £20 to return it.  And that was about 30 years back!!
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    £1 which had been left in an Asda trolley. 
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    edited 16 October at 10:54PM
    NBLondon said:
    SuzeQStan said:
    There was a downpour whilst we were shopping for food and heading back to the car with our shopping we found an abandoned trolley with £1 in the locking mechanism. Saw a fair few abandoned carts so made £5 (and a trolley coin) returning them to the trolley store.

    That's impressive - I've never had more than 2 on the same trip. Coinstar gave me 22p today though
    Sorry, what do you mean that coinstar gave you 22p? Do you just rummage in the machine to see if there are any leftover coins?  All wins are good wins! 
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