Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Good Idea?
I’m up in Minnesota spending some time with family, and ran into a situation at a.local Home Depot that I’ve never encountered before. Simply put, the brakes on their shopping carts lock up if you try to push them through an open door without paying for your items. They will also lock up if you try to push an EMPTY cart out of the store, which is how we found out. Apparently it is Home Depot’s latest effort to combat shoplifting, which is especially bad in Minnesota at this time.
Good idea? Any other novel ways by merchants of countering shoplifting that you know of? Any other ideas from folks how to stem the shoplifting craze? |
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I agree. Amazon sells everything that Home Depot does and most items are at a lower cost. I rarely ever go to Home Depot or Lowes. This week, I received some HVAC filters, refrigerator filters, batteries, toilet paper, and a pair of pliers. Saved time and money.
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We use to have a problem with carts disappearing, the store got carts that lock up is you try to remove from the parking lot. It helped keep the carts on the stores property and cut down on the loss of carts. So if this helps all for it. After all we, the honest consumers pay the price for loss and theft.
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No commercial tax base....where do you think that burden shifts to?
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Target up in my old town up north had shopping carts that lock their wheels if you roll them too far from the front of the store. If you bought a lot of stuff and parked further away in the parking lot, it was an inconvenience to drag the thing to the car. But then I realized you could roll it just fine, if you rolled it backward. Just push from the back end or pull it behind you instead, and it'd roll fine.
My area wasn't a high-theft area. Most of the thieves were just mundane shoplifters - people who steal the "loss leaders" put out near the registers on purpose because they expect shoplifters to steal. Candy mostly. Bic lighters, gum, stuff like that. |
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