Supermarket trolley deposits

zodiac

I tend to use Euros in trollys (most will take them), when asked to change the trolly for a £1 and ive refused, ive got some nasty looks before ive had the chance to explain. The funniest one was an older woman who jacked the trolly just as I took the last bag out (I had my head in the boot) thrusted two 50ps at me walked off with it, she got half way across the car park before she looked and came powerwalking back with the trolly and wanted her cash back. I was just looking at her and bursted into laughter after she walked off again (with her cash back) :rotfl:

The only trouble is that Euros can be spent as they look like a pound and in the dark corner of my purse everything looks the same.
I'll keep an eye out for the tokens

IvanOpinion

Bogof_Babe wrote:

I don't object to refundable deposits, but why on earth don't they fix their trolleys to accept tokens? I'm hardly likely to abscond with a trolley and lose a £1.50 token - if I wanted one then it would be cheaper to lose a £1 coin!

I was informed, several years ago, that the reason they started making trolleys payable was because of the amount of claims people were raising after some ignorant sod shoved a trolley into the side of someone elses car because they were too lazy to take it back to the trolley park.

Many years agi I remember seeing a woman shove her trolley out of the way that ultimately hit my pride and joy (a battered up old mini) cracking one of the headlights (although I hadn't noticed this at the time), I took great pleasure in shoving her trolley into the side of her Mercedes as she reversed out - did quite a bit of damage - I pleaded ignorance and told her that she had reversed into her own trolley (I know I shouldn't have .. but I was a hormonally challenged teemager at the time).

Given the mechanism on the trolleys I am surprised that they don't all work ... there is nothing fancy a correctly sized washer should work. As others have said sometimes you have to put the token INTO the trolley versus other places were it sticks out.

Ivan

Katgoddess

Just keep a screwdriver in your handbag. It's what the trolley men use.

Push the slot in, as if there is a coin in it. Then wiggle the screwdriver through the hole on the side.

Sorted.

zappomatic

Our local Tesco has stopped needing a coin for trolleys, as the car park used to be prowled by beggars/drug addicts asking people for their pound or offering to take the trolley back! They've all disappeared now (the beggars that is, not thte trolleys!)

Zippy123

Erm all you need is a jobs worth manager and you could be done for "obtaining goods or services by deception" if you use anything other than the stated payment for the trolley deposit. This includes the charity tokens unless the shop has agreed to us them.

Wig

My local Tescos has no coinage in the trolleys, I wish they did because daft people leave the trolleys all over the place, some end up in the river. Tesco has been fined for polluting rivers with their trolleys because they were found not to have exercised enough care to ensure the trolleys were not stolen.

before_hollywood

in the town i work in, the local supermarkets trolleys end up all over the place.
have even heard of them turning up at the end of a street halfway across town!!!

november

kingfisher1961 wrote:

These tokens do work in Morrisons trolleys as they are sold in there to support the charity of the year. If you don't have a pound handy ask one of the trolley men and they will release one for you no problem.

They don't work in our Morrisons either. I had a token - cost £1 for charity which I used for ages in a Tescos trolley.

Then I started shopping at Morrisons and the token didn't work. Actually after trying for weeks on end I haven't a clue what I've done with it now. I'd forgotton all about it :eek: bad money saver

Asking the trolley men doesn't work either, thats if you can find one. Neither will our Morrisons change notes etc for customers who have no coin for the trolleys.

In fact if you haven't got a £1 its a nightmare involving going in and buying something to get a £1 coin for the trolleys

eta I forgot - I've never seen them sell the tokens in our Morrisons either

Maybe the rules are on a store by store basis!

trisontana

Waitrose have a different system for their trolleys, which are fitted with special grooved wheels. At all the exits to the car park you will find something like a cattle-grid. If you try to push the trolley over this grid the wheels just stop turning. So very, very few get taken off site.

before_hollywood

my local asda has a line drawn around the car park, or so it appears, but through a bunch of sensors it locks the wheels.
if someone wants a trolley enough they will just take it though