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Angoose
03 Apr 19 12:36
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It's simply not on to abandon your shopping market trolley in the car park after transferring your groceries in to your car.
Be a good citizen, return the trolley to an appropriate storage space.
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Report SontaranStratagem • April 3, 2019 12:39 PM BST
Its given me an idea

Lets take all the shopping trolleys down to downing streets entrance, and leave them all outside the gate

With the pound taken out of em, thug life
Report Crisp77 • April 3, 2019 12:51 PM BST
We can't allow these shopping trolleys to have a mind of their own
Report Make my hay • April 3, 2019 12:51 PM BST
You can't take the pound out without locking it to another trolly in the carpark unless you've got some special key. If you have got a special key could you tell me where you got it from so I can start leaving my trolly in the middle of Lidls the car park after transferring my groceries into my car.
Report Angoose • April 3, 2019 12:52 PM BST
Where would I put my groceries if all the trolleys are in Downing Street Scared
Report mouse muldoon • April 3, 2019 12:54 PM BST
Middle of the Avon is the favoured place to leave them round 'ere.
Report Angoose • April 3, 2019 1:00 PM BST
A plastic spoon from a tub of ice-cream easily allows you to release the coin Crazy
Report SontaranStratagem • April 3, 2019 1:03 PM BST
Pinch a on its own trolly

Take it home and cut the key chain off

Take it with you on your next supermarket outing

Job done
Report Angoose • April 3, 2019 1:05 PM BST
But you'll miss out on the ice-cream Surprised
Report Make my hay • April 3, 2019 1:07 PM BST
got to go to Lidls this afternoon, going to have a good look at the key maybe take a picture of it and see what I can come up with for next visit.
Report cooperman • April 3, 2019 1:08 PM BST
Not a canal nearby?
Report Make my hay • April 3, 2019 1:08 PM BST
A plastic spoon will just break I would of thought
Report Angoose • April 3, 2019 1:11 PM BST
It's a flat spoon, one of the trolley attendants gave one to my wife one day when she didn't have any change Grin
Report Make my hay • April 3, 2019 1:16 PM BST
OK I shall keep my eyes open for items containing flat plastic spoons, thanks for the tip.
Report SontaranStratagem • April 3, 2019 1:27 PM BST
Just pinch a trolly?

And put it into the back of the car?

You've always got one then
Report SteelCurtain • April 3, 2019 1:31 PM BST
use 2 work 4 M&S we had a special key 2 get the pounds out, then we would just leave the trolleys on the car park lol now i just carry a small pair of pliers 2 pull them out with Grin
Report politicspunter • April 3, 2019 1:33 PM BST
A friend of mine's son got a job in the summer collecting supermarket trollies. Now I know this is not the done thing but he had a running competition with his student workmate pal to see who could collect and pocket the most pound coins. He was winning with thirteen coins (!) with one day to go till the end of their contract when there was a fire alarm inside the store. Everybody out, fire brigade arrives, folks eventually drift away leaving their trolleys (with pounds) inside the store. Cue the manager to tell his pound rival to go and collect the trollies and put them back when emptied. (thirty six of them!).
Report SontaranStratagem • April 3, 2019 1:35 PM BST
Politicspunter

He didn't think to jump in and help?
Report politicspunter • April 3, 2019 1:36 PM BST
He was on a different shift.
Report SontaranStratagem • April 3, 2019 1:37 PM BST
Ah

That must have been a choker

I'd have done the shop windows in for that
Report politicspunter • April 3, 2019 1:39 PM BST
They used to collect the tokens too. They sold them at a car boot sale for a pound each.
Report Make my hay • April 3, 2019 1:44 PM BST
Could pinch one at night time it would save a lot of time walking to-and-fro, I shall bear that in mind if the spoon thing doesn't work out, cheers.

This is a really good thread that Angoose has started about not talking shopping trollys back, he's a top bloke.
Report the old nanny ;-) • April 3, 2019 10:07 PM BST
WAs a Bloke at sainsburys in Wandsworth Used to help people unload Shopping into their Cars, worse way he was on a quid that was if they didnt sling him another couple of quid Plain School Holidays the Son would Join him to Make a bit of Pocket money , I reckon he was on a Right few quid Plain
Report Coachbuster • April 3, 2019 11:01 PM BST

Apr 3, 2019 -- 7:27AM, SontaranStratagem wrote:


Just pinch a trolly? And put it into the back of the car? You've always got one then


was thinking earlier about just having a fold up one in the car  ... like the ones they now use in ALDI   .

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