In today's Telegraph.
I see that one I know personally, a supermarket car park in Carmarthen, gets top marks in the rogue shopping trolley category.
The reason is they have built the car park on a slight slope. The technology does not yet exist to fit parking brakes to trolleys, so they slowly drift across the car park when left unattended.
(Am I allowed to name and shame? Or should I say "a leading supermarket chain" in "a dreary west Wales town"? Don't really see the harm but removed the name anyway as it also adds no value... smokie, BR Moderator)
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Surely "a dreary supermarket chain" in "a leading west Wales town"? Poor Carmarthen...
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" The technology does not yet exist to fit parking brakes to trolleys, so they slowly drift across the car park when left unattended"
I'm sorry but most trolleys have brakes which work quite well. At least here in the Midlands. Maybe the technologically challenged South of the Country has not seen them yet:-)
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Sorry- but not seen trolley brakes in Derbyshire either.
Got a thriving garage repair trade to look after.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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I'm sorry but most trolleys have brakes which work quite well.
Not in any supermarket I've ever been to, North, South or Midlands. Airport trolleys have them though.
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All trolleys I've seen have at least one wheel that can be locked with one of those little step on clip things.
It's just that people don't use them, or simply can't be bothered to walk a whole 10m to the trolly park.
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Tescos and Sainsburys in Yorkshire,Surrey and Oxfordshire where i have lived certainly dont have them.
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You can step on them?
In my experience they're acticated automatically if you try to remove the trolley from the car park. Very irritating if one activates automatically when you're half-way around the store.
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I'm not talking about the automatic ones, but the manual ones.
Like I say, people are just too lazy to put them in the allocated bays.
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I'm not talking about the automatic ones, but the manual ones. Like I say, people are just too lazy to put them in the allocated bays.
Me thinks the same people will be equally as lazy in not operating the brake.
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The only auto brakes are the ones that stop the trolley leaving the site, they are free to hunt in packs within the site.
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All trolleys I've seen have at least one wheel that can be locked with one of those little step on clip things.
Ive never seen a trolley with a step on brake. Tried to use one once with an automatic brake, but it was jammed on and the trolley was un-useable.
The best ones are the ones where you put £1 in the slot to undo the chain. People are always desperate to park them properly to get their quid back.
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We have double fun.
A Surbiton supermarket has its main shopping floor significantly sloping so that the trolleys, no brakes, easily dift down hill but at least the car park on top is flat.
A Sunbury supermarket has installed a travelator to the mezzanie floor but no brakes on the trolleys. I am waiting for a significant accident to occur as the gradient involved is quite steep.
I watched someone reverse parking, with several shuffles, in a local supermarket carpark yesterday. Cark park was about 5 percent full so there were lots of drive throgh slots.
Their logic eludes me.
However you design a carpark you still have to beware of some of the driver antics.
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I can't remember ever seeing a trolley without a stepon brake on one or both rear wheels.
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I can't remember ever seeing a trolley without a stepon brake on one or both rear wheels.
I never look at the wheels, so I wouldn't know! I'm usually more interested in the dynamic characteristics of the trolley.
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I can't remember ever seeing a trolley without a stepon brake on one or both rear wheels.
How do you disengage it? I have genuinely never seen one. Only the automatic type.
Or the £1 ones, which as already mentioned, are by far the best solution.
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A Sunbury supermarket has installed a travelator to the mezzanie floor but no brakes on the trolleys. I am waiting for a significant accident to occur as the gradient involved is quite steep.
They should have new trolleys with wheels which lock in to the grooves on the travelator - that's how our local Asda ones work (and Les Corte Ingles in Valencia!!).
Never seen a trolley with a brake either, only those which lock up when you try and take them off site, but this was in the US.
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The simple matter of fact is that if people were not so lazy/is not my problem and walk the 10/15 yards to most trolly car parks(what ever they may be called) then this would not be a problem.
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-(and Les Corte Ingles in Valencia!!).-
Being pedantic - surely its El Corte Ingles Davey.?
My favourite car park comment is by Bill Bryson about his local multi storey car being opened recently by the Lord Mayor not cutting a tape but instead taking a ceremonial leak in the lift ....
It seems to me that most car parks are built down to a price and not up a standard.
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It seems to me that most car parks are built down to a price and not up a standard.
Spot on! they add relatively little value, but take up quite a bit of land. What standards there are for car parks are fairly low: as long you achieve spaces 4.8m x 2.4m, and 6m aisles, adequate ventilation and keep the storey height below 3m (to avoid sprinklers), you squeeze as many spaces in as you can.
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I'm sorry but most trolleys have brakes which work quite well. At least here in the Midlands. Maybe the technologically challenged South of the Country has not seen them yet:-)
I'm pretty sure most supermarkets around Bath has brakes. Maybe some don't, but i don't notice because i don't let them run away, i park the trolley next to and resting on the car.
the brakes are normally on the right hand rear wheel and function by pressing down to brake and pressing forward to disengage.
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Sorry, most trollies have brakes not supermarkets.....
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I'll have a look next time I'm at the supermarket. Though I'm sure mine (which cropped up in Top Gear the other week) only has trollies with the auto-brakes. And flat-spots on all the right rear wheels from people trying to push them with the brakes on.
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I now always take the trolley back to the store but I wonder if I'm doing the trolley gatherers out of the job by not leaving it at one of the collecting points!
What amazes me is that I've seen people push their trolley to one of these collecting points even when it's a shorter walk to take it back to the shop! Duuuuurh!
Cheers, SS
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Problem is holding them off the car while lifting out the shopping.I hate having to put £1 in the slot.Often have no change on me.I know in France they will give you a plastic token if you ask.
Definitely never seen brakes on a supermarche trolley.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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Leave a pound coin permanently in the car so it's always available for a trolley.
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Leave a pound coin permanently in the car so it's always available for a trolley.
If you leave it on display on the dashboard, you'll always be able to find it. ;-)
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Leave a pound coin permanently in the car so it's always available for a trolley.
Or better still get one of these
www.trolley-tokens.com/
Some people do them for char-it-dee too
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