Here's a photo from their website. This must be a scary vandal stealing a cart from a supermarket.
Info from their site:
Every year in the UK over 300,000 shopping trolleys are removed from stores and retail car parks and abandoned in the local community.
Quite apart from the loss of the asset, trolleys are often left in roads, on walkways and in parks where they are an unsightly hazard to the general public.
Trolleywise also works to provide trolley retention solutions to minimise the root cause of trolley loss - the unauthorised removal of the trolley from their lawful premises.
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Most U.S. grocery stores, Target, etc. now use shopping carts that lock their wheels if pushed outside a yellow line around the store's parking lot. The British "trolley" pitcured doesn't look as if it would hold my shopping, it's not very deep, is it?
I haven't actually seen any interesting business concepts, but I do love the amusing names for businesses here.
The Codfather and Codswallop chippies being a good example.
Trollywise needs to come to my neighborhood in North London.
Drew, we're starting to see some of the grocery stores use the same system of trolley wheels locking at the edge of the car park.
Also, the shopping trolleys are small because everything is small here. I shop much more frequently because of my small fridge and little storage space in my kitchen.
I don't know about an amusing business, but we do have one with an amuzing name. "1066 William the Concreter" (http://www.williamtheconcreter.co.uk/) located in Battle, which is where the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066 with William the Conqueror winning.
William the Concreter is hysterical. Love the Codfather too.
Theresa, I had to have an American fridge. Couldn't deal with those teeny fridges when I worked full time and had kids. I hate going to the supermarket anyway so couldn't face doing it frequently...(love American supermarkets though as they are uncrowded and you can park easily, etc.)
Theresa said: we're starting to see some of the grocery stores use the same system of trolley wheels locking at the edge of the car park.
Eliz: Poor Trolleywise!! The demise of their business won't be too far off if this new technology is adopted here.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THE TROLLY IS THE SHALLOW ONE RATHER THATN THE STANDARD DEEP ONE. I LOVE THE AUSSIE WORD, TRUNDLERS! AND I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT WHY DO YOU NEED SUCH HUGE FRIDGES. WE SHOP ONCE A WEEK AND EVEN THAT DOESN'T FILL IT UP. MY FAVE NAME, IS A LOCAL FISH AND CHIP SHOP, "THE CODPIECE".I THINK THATS COVERED IT!
Anonymous, YES, The Codpiece truly takes the cake!!
William The Concreter is fabby too - I love the pervasive sense of humour here in England.
Eliz, our first house here had three of the small fridges, now we only have two: one small, and one medium. When I was back in the US between UK residences, I found the one large fridge a little less satisfactory because I had everything organised into separate fridges which meant I was never wading through a fridge looking for things. And somehow the three fridges felt like a lot more space than the fridge in the last US house, but maybe that's my imagination.
But fresh food here does not last as long as the US, and so you don't buy as much at one time, I find.
I wonder why that is. More preservatives in American food, perhaps.
That would make sense, as food would have to be trucked longer distances.
Mel,
I have wondered about this too, thinking there must be more preservatives in US foods, but at the same time I have the idea that the use-by dates are longer in the US even for things like fresh chicken meat, and I'm baffled as to why that would be. Of course I've never carefully examined the dates in both countries, I have the impression that this is how it is, and so that could be wrong. Eliz, Theresa, what do you think about that?
Food doesn't necessarily spend longer times in transport in the US. Produce shipped to England has to spend 10 to 14 days in transit so that uses up a lot of the time it is good for. In the US that ocean transit time and wharf time isn't needed since most of it is trucked within 3 or 4 days.
Lisa, I'm not sure, I don't buy any meat, other than fish, which I buy the day I want to cook it and now that Vince has his allotments up and going and we can get local fruit, I think the only things I buy fresh at the store is bananas, citrus, a few tomatoes and mushrooms.
Yes, good point Marty. Fruit, for example, is kept in an inert atmosphere and refrigerted for long journeys and possibly deteriorates more quickly thereafter.
It probably varies a lot, in fact. Some stuff is produced and consumed locally in both countries - maybe we should be looking at that and comparing dates.
Rachella, can you pin point the area where you have an issue with abandoned shopping tolleys and with store they belong to. I maybe able to get the area cleared.
Andy Stubbs.
Trolleywise.
Mr Trolleywise himself in my humble blog! I am so honoured, thanks. Will send Rachella your msg in case she missed it.
Hi Mr. Trollywise. I live in Noel Park, Wood green, North London (N22). The trollys are from Morrisons and the small grocers such as TFC on Lordship Lane. I have to say, though there are still a few trollies around, since resident only parking has been implemented the problem isn't as bad anymore.
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