Originally Posted by Versailles:
“Iknow this was posted some months ago, but I just wondered..
Where I live, (Norway), the trolleys in large-ish supermarkets (and some small) have a deposit chain on them, you have to pay two pound, and then tak e the trolley out. When you are finished, you put the trolley back in place, and get the money back.
But this is not to prevent theft(which is not a problem), but to make the customers put the trolleys back in their place.
Don't you have such an arrangement in Britain?
We also pay for bags, btw.”
“Iknow this was posted some months ago, but I just wondered..
Where I live, (Norway), the trolleys in large-ish supermarkets (and some small) have a deposit chain on them, you have to pay two pound, and then tak e the trolley out. When you are finished, you put the trolley back in place, and get the money back.
But this is not to prevent theft(which is not a problem), but to make the customers put the trolleys back in their place.
Don't you have such an arrangement in Britain?
We also pay for bags, btw.”
Supermarkets near canals often use such a system here.
Teenagers have to decide whether to lose £1, for a moment's fun, pushing the trolley into the water, or buy another can of Carlsberg Special Brew





