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Roland Perry · January 25th 12, 06:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 13:02:52
on Tue, 24 Jan 2012, remarked:
FWIW one doesn't get pay-to-use trolleys at Waitrose. You must shop at
some right chavvy places

Oddly enough, the first place I ever encountered them was at the
Waitrose in Wokingham! Although it was a Safeway at the time.

ASDA complained to me that they had been made to add coin ops to their
trolleys by the council. More likely so many were being taken off site that
it was the only way they could stop the council fining them for recovery.

The problem in Wokingham (iirc, it was the late 70's) was people leaving
their supermarket trolleys scattered round the nearby car park. In some
towns the council would allow there to be collection pens in the car
parks, and the store would go and round up the errant trolleys. This is
one of the ways that out-of-town supermarkets have an advantage because
it's their own car park and those pens are the default.
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Roland Perry