Pound coins and shopping trolleys

[subaqua]

My local Morrisons has very strong magnets across the carpark floor to stop people pushing them home.
It doesnt seem to work.

Chuck em in back of van . Make great cooking racks for home made barbecues

 

[classic33]

My local Morrisons has very strong magnets across the carpark floor to stop people pushing them home.
It doesnt seem to work.

Lift the offending wheel by 8 inches, and the magnets aren't that strong.

 

[slowmotion]

Lift the offending wheel by 8 inches, and the magnets aren't that strong.

How wide is the magnet strip, and is it marked? This could be interesting.

 

[classic33]

How wide is the magnet strip, and is it marked? This could be interesting.

They're set into the ground and are less than an inch wide. Clearly marked.

There is another on the wheel of the trolley. The two making near contact, lock the wheel.

 

[oldfatfool]

Old 5p used to make good German dm. In cig and bear machines. Nroken and curled matchsticks make adequate £1 coins for trollies

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Old 5p used to make good German dm. In cig and bear machines. Nroken and curled matchsticks make adequate £1 coins for trollies

I'm trying to give up the grizzlies.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Lidl give you plastic tokens free. You're welcome.

@Speicher. This thread shows you how to get a cheap sieve Free at Lidl

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Is a pound really enough of a deterrent to stop people walking off with a trolley?
When the pound coin was introduced in 1983 it would have bought a pint of lager - about £3 to £4 today.

Funnily enough, it would have bought two loafs of bread in 1983 and you can still get two loafs for a £1 now.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

Is a pound really enough of a deterrent to stop people walking off with a trolley?
When the pound coin was introduced in 1983 it would have bought a pint of lager - about £3 to £4 today.

Is it not to just make people return them to specific places rather then leave them all over the car park... and, looking at most supermarkets I got to, it seems to get the desired result...

 

[classic33]

Get yer old ones spent!

 

[classic33]

How wide is the magnet strip, and is it marked? This could be interesting.

"A new generation of shopping trolley is being unveiled by Asda to stop customers running off with them.

Everyday thousands of trolleys are taken and dumped, causing shortage in stores and blighting the environment.

Supermarkets, which face prosecution for allowing trolleys to be abandoned, have already brought in preventative measures, with Tesco using magnetic wheel locks.

Now Asda is bringing in a £2.4m system of what it calls "techno trolley".

'Invisible wall'

Underground cables around stores transmit radio waves to create an invisible wall.

When a trolley passes through it a signal is sent to a receiver in the wheel and triggers a brake, bringing it to a halt.

The brake can only be released using a handset operated by a supermarket porter.

Stores that have trialled the system used to lose four out of five of their trolleys each year.

One store in Sinfin, Derby, was losing 550 trolleys a year, but has only lost 15 in the past seven months.

Overall, losses are now less than one in 20.

The first fleet of trolleys is being rolled out in Irvine, Scotland this week."

Thursday, 8 August, 2002, 11:28 GMT 12:28 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2179891.stm

 

[jefmcg]

Funnily enough, it would have bought two loafs of bread in 1983 and you can still get two loafs for a £1 now.

Interesting

And according to google, milk was 21p/pint in 1983 and now it's gone up to 25p/pint.

No wonder food is adulterated. It's too cheap to be trusted.

 

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"A new generation of shopping trolley is being unveiled by Asda to stop customers running off with them.

Everyday thousands of trolleys are taken and dumped, causing shortage in stores and blighting the environment.

Supermarkets, which face prosecution for allowing trolleys to be abandoned, have already brought in preventative measures, with Tesco using magnetic wheel locks.

Now Asda is bringing in a £2.4m system of what it calls "techno trolley".

'Invisible wall'

Underground cables around stores transmit radio waves to create an invisible wall.

When a trolley passes through it a signal is sent to a receiver in the wheel and triggers a brake, bringing it to a halt.

The brake can only be released using a handset operated by a supermarket porter.

Stores that have trialled the system used to lose four out of five of their trolleys each year.

One store in Sinfin, Derby, was losing 550 trolleys a year, but has only lost 15 in the past seven months.

Overall, losses are now less than one in 20.

The first fleet of trolleys is being rolled out in Irvine, Scotland this week."

Thursday, 8 August, 2002, 11:28 GMT 12:28 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2179891.stm

This is a challenge that I could get my teeth into.

 

[classic33]

This is a challenge that I could get my teeth into.

Radio or magnetic?

I can picture you now, handheld magnetic compass in hand checking your trolley every time you go.

 

[slowmotion]

Radio or magnetic?

How about two entire rolls of aluminium turkey foil to block their fiendish radio signals and a grounding connection to a drain cover??? Worth a try!