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| Chuck in E. TN:
Ah, yes. Like the luggage trollys in the airports. So you get a trolly without paying the £, and get a £ back when you return it? And the shop lad gets the dole? Chuck |
| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: Chuck in E. TN on December 28, 2012, 06:56:29 AM ---Ah, yes. Like the luggage trollys in the airports. So you get a trolly without paying the £, and get a £ back when you return it? And the shop lad gets the dole? Chuck --- End quote --- No Chuck. You put your coin into your trolley to release it, and when you dock your trolley after shopping you get your own coin (or token) back. The reason folk like a token on the key ring is that it's frustrating to go shopping and realise you can't get a trolley because you emptied all the coins out of your pockets last night .... |
| andyf:
I parked at Aldi when shopping in the town centre today, and on returning to the car found one of their trollies abandoned nearby with a pound coin still in it. So I returned it to the trolley park and plugged it in to extract the coin :ddb: :ddb: Chuck, many folk over here arrive on the bus or have parked elsewhere, so the local bus stops, car parks etc get cluttered with orphaned trolleys if you don't have to pay a refundable deposit to use them. Andy |
| Chuck in E. TN:
I see, said the blind man! Thanks for the explanation... Good idea, actually. Here in the US, we'd probably get mugged for the cart! Chuck |
| andyf:
On the handle of each trolley or cart is a slide to entrap the coin, and dangling below that is a chain carrying a key affair of fairly simple profile. When you collect your trolley, it will be locked to the rank by having the key of the one behind plugged into it. Inserting your coin releases that key, so you can pull your trolley away. When you are done, you return it to the rank and plug in the key of the one behind it, which releases your coin. The chain is too short to allow the key hanging from your trolley to release your coin. It did once occur to me that if one were to reproduce the key (or snip the chain holding an original one), he could wander round the store with it, pocketing the coins from those trolleys whose users were distractedly wondering which tin of baked beans to buy. A false beard would be needed, because of the CCTV. Andy |
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