They’re on a mission from God.
Colby Cosh- CBC finds its purpose — exposing the national shopping cart crisis
Some of the CBC’s other local snapshots of the shopping-cart crisis reject this daring theory outright: in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2021, an abandoned shopping-cart problem was attributed pretty directly to sociopathic cart-abandoning customers rather than thieves. (Side question: is the word “thief” gradually becoming taboo?)
Thanks to Ghee Beaux and Trudeau… shopping carts in Canada are the most expensive to operate.
The solution is simple. Just remove the wheels from the shopping carts.
What’s that you say?
Well of course you put Teflon glides on the posts so they will slide easily on the linoleum floors in the store. Beyond the doors, they’d be pretty hard to push along.
That would make them EASIER to push around in the winter time.
No thanks.
Sounds like an episode of “Yes Minister” that I saw long long ago, where Jim Hacker (the politician) was trying to come up with a platform that everyone could get behind, and he finally hit on shopping trolleys being abandoned and causing problems. Is CBC plagiarizing?
Better contact Bubbles for advice. He’s the shopping cart expert.
I saw a news story a while ago about a grocery store that had stopped providing hand baskets. They were constantly being stolen because the grocery store can’t give out shopping bags anymore. This could easily be related.
So the street person (aka homeless in old speak) that one sees with two or three shopping carts worth of crap haven’t stolen them they have simply redistributed them? /s
Some parking lots look like wagon train encampments. Property owners get no help from the police to move the squatters
A fellow I worked with, in Thunder Bay, had a great sideline of collecting and returning shopping carts. I gather it paid pretty well. I used to kid him that he hired people to take the carts out of the store parking lots so he could go get them. He never denied it.
Also forgotten are all those widowed seniors that hoard shopping carts and wheel their overflowing purchases back to their retirement homes and don’t return them to the grocery store. This is another problem for which MAiD is a solution /s
The Feds are on it!
There’s no need for shopping carts. People should be shopping daily, and just get one cloth bag of groceries. That’s much easier to carry on public transit.
Sarcasm? or a Lieberal position paper?
Shopping daily? What atmosphere do you live in? Who has time for that, or energy?
When you’re unemployed, on UBI and live in that wonderous 15 minute city, you’ll have all the time in the world to line up for your daily bread ration.
daily moldy bread ration
how big of cart to carry bugs??
What about e-scooters, e-bikes, e-cars, abandoned outside of authorized use zones , or totally dead GPS dead like, they don’t exist anymore?
Did stolen catalytic converters stop getting stolen, like luxury vehicles stripped for parts?
The ceebs doing “work” as usual. Useless.
you dont get much anymore for a billion four .
Used to live near a welfare building , every balcony had a shopping cart.
And every fat white Ho had a bi-racial kid or 6!
bi racially dark . never oriental. peens too short???
When I was a kid I used to go grocery shopping for my Great Grandmother. She had her own cart which she would unfold for me before my excursion. It was about a block away, the grocery store. Actually more of a variety store with fresh vegetables and a meat counter. It was called (locally anyway) Chink’s variety. Owned by a very nice Chinese family. I had no idea that Chink was a derogatory name for Chinese people and neither did my Great Granny and she called the place just that. After ringing in my groceries the father of the store would carefully count the change because my Granny had a temper. Ah the good old days when everybody was racist and happy on both sides of the aisle.
funny we had two . one was the chinks and one was the Joos . early version of their pronouns .
The solution to the “cart crisis” is the same as the solution to the much more expensive shoplifting problem.
No more in person shopping.
Order and pay ahead, get your purchase passed through the bullet proof window.
If carts are a social good, I can only imagine a heavily regulated and centralized cart control cartel managed with a bottomless wallet of taxpayer money. A cart for every pronoun! I mean, someone has to do something, as long as I don’t have to do anything.
Odd. The story didn’t mention the carts being cut up and used for grills. That was the fate of stolen grocery carts years ago. Of course, back when, the baggers then pushed your cart out to your car and loaded the groceries in your car for you. They were tipped about 10 cents.
What happened? Free range carts now, unlike the old days when carts were stolen only when you wanted a grill.
l used to call the big chain groc store to report the location of abandoned carts.
not anymore.
l used to memorize burned out street lite walking my canine
not anymore
l used to periodically scout the neighborhood putting spilled blue box stuff in an empty one for next pick up.
not anymore
HELLUVALOT of ‘civic duty’ stuff havent done in a long time.
common thread: treated like crapola by officialdom including politicians, cops, bureaucrats, educators, even so-called ‘caring christians’ anyone with a scintilla of power and this going WAAAAAY back.
the clincher: l yanked my name off the organ donor registry same reason. the ‘authorities’ made this life and death for *someone*. “cant take it with ya” WATCH ME
Stealing is a taboo. You don’t steal a car, you ‘reuse’ it. You don’t steal if you dump the cart into a river. You don’t steal the groceries, you just walk them. And if you drink the beer inside, that’s misusing, not stealing.
It’s all the ‘it’s just property’ folks. It is inbuilt in communism, the more you screw others, the more in need you are and the more you can screw them again.
To everybody according to their needs. Thank August Becker.