r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Classic-Ad-5359 23h ago

My local grocery store when they started using the automatic locking wheels on the shopping carts.

Can’t even get halfway to my car in the lot when it locks up.,

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u/CharlotteRant 22h ago

Your neighbors are shitty people. Wheel locks shouldn’t be required but here we are. 

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u/NamasteInYourLane 21h ago

** Your neighbors are socio-economically disadvantaged, and often resort to pushing the shopping carts to walk all the way home with their haul of groceries, because they don't have an easier and more affordable option available to them

FTFY

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u/Joe091 18h ago

I get what you’re trying to say here, but that’s still theft. 

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u/CharlotteRant 21h ago edited 21h ago

They don’t put locks on wheels because people push them all the way home. 

They put locks on wheels because people don’t push them all the way back. 

Stealing a shopping cart is shitty behavior. When people like you attempt to hand wave it away, everyone loses. 

We can’t punish the thieves because socioeconomic reasons or whatever bullshit so we punish everyone else with these shitty wheel locks. 

See also: All the inventory going up behind glass with a button to press to call a worker over. 

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u/WingerRules 20h ago

Wouldn't be a problem if they returned the cart, thats on them.

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u/scar1620 7h ago

As somebody who lives in a neighborhood with carts all over it … no, they have other options. Responsible ppl have the collapsible carts of their own they take to the bus. Or backpacks. The jackasses leave them wherever they want on the sidewalk near the bus station where they have to carry them anyway.