California Big Lots manager fired for trying to retrieve shopping cart from shoplifter

hollydolly said:
We used to have a huge problem with stolen Shopping trolleys, they'd be found everywhere including rivers and streams
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When I lived in Ohio I used to canoe the Olentangy River through Columbus. I called it "urban whitewater" lots of unnatural obstacles to dodge, plenty of shopping carts, but no boulders.
 

Alligatorob said:
When I lived in Ohio I used to canoe the Olentangy River through Columbus. I called it "urban whitewater" lots of unnatural obstacles to dodge, plenty of shopping carts, but no boulders.
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exactly and we had the same so something had to be done...

In inner city canals there are still some blocking the waterways.. but thank fully, it's not the huge undertaking it once was to clear them
 
RadishRose said:
Some stores lock the carts just like this here too, Remy. It's a quarter.
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Aldis Super Market Chain uses that system here. They are the only one I know of, and I've never heard anyone complain. The store doesn't have to pay workers to go collect carts from the parking lot. But whatever Aldis is doing allows them to undercut other grocers prices, including Walmart. Possibly Costco as well, although I haven't done a price comparison with Costco yet. They don't bag your groceries either, so I have to cart my stuff to the car, and return the cart after I place their groceries in a trunk caddy that I bought specifically for Aldis groceries. But I don't mind the inconvenience when a business returns the favor with lower prices, on some items less than half the price. However, Aldis stock is more limited, and sometimes I have to get things from Walmart.
 

JustDave said:
Aldis Super Market Chain uses that system here. They are the only one I know of, and I've never heard anyone complain. The store doesn't have to pay workers to go collect carts from the parking lot. But whatever Aldis is doing allows them to undercut other grocers prices, including Walmart. Possibly Costco as well, although I haven't done a price comparison with Costco yet. They don't bag your groceries either, so I have to cart my stuff to the car, and return the cart after I place their groceries in a trunk caddy that I bought specifically for Aldis groceries. But I don't mind the inconvenience when a business returns the favor with lower prices, on some items less than half the price. However, Aldis stock is more limited, and sometimes I have to get things from Walmart.
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Aldis' uses the system here, but of course being a relatively new chain of Discount supermarkets here compared to our more well known ones they weren't the first...
 
Having to wait for items to be unlocked by an employer would take too much time and be a frustrating experience. At that point I would order online and pick it up. We aren’t having that problem locally.

We are having the shopping cart issue and they are all over town. Most of the homeless have one.
 
I think one of the problems is how we sell products. Stores are nothing but open shelf after open shelf where customers can grab what they want. And if they want to pocket goods instead of buying them, the afterschool 17 year old clerk isn't much of deterrent. I was in a big box store, where you couldn't find a clerk, and a lot of the packages were empty--people had walked off with it. Well, if there's nobody around.... And even if the store catches you, it's more of a hassle legally prosecuting someone, and it's cheaper to toss them out of the store. If you make a store so easy to steal from, people are going to steal. DUH!
 

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