Stores Can't Stop Carts Vanishing
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"Bring our carts back. Phone us and we'll bring them (back). We'll pick them up."
They said the carts used to be chained up and required a $1 deposit, but it still didn't discourage theft. Thieves used a coat hanger to steal the cart, then dig out the loonie, [Husni Zeid] said. Shopping carts with locking wheels once they're beyond supermarket parking lots also don't have 100 per cent anti-theft success, said [Mary Vermeer].His Speedy Cart Services has been around since 1980. Five to eight years ago, [Brian Reid] said, he was worried his company wouldn't survive due to enhanced security on carts like locking brakes. But he said business is as brisk today as it's ever been.See the full content of this document
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Stores Can't Stop Carts Vanishing
Shoppers wheeling thousands away
HAVE you seen this shopping cart?That's the message from Portage Avenue supermarket manager Husni Zeid to shoppers who made off with dozens of his shopping carts, costing his ...See the full content of this document
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