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**trailmaster** · May 5th, 2018, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rupertramjet

Most British Supermarkets now have a coin slot in the trolleys, if you do not take them back you lose your money, seems to have reduced the problem dramatically!

Yes we have that too, but at pharmacies and variety stores.

**rupertramjet** · May 5th, 2018, 12:40 PM

Top Tips on Asda!!!

Lime marmalade, crunchy nut cornflakes, a third the price of the brand names and twice as nice!

I am a cheapskate!!!

**trailmaster** · May 5th, 2018, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rupertramjet

Top Tips on Asda!!!

Lime marmalade, crunchy nut cornflakes, a third the price of the brand names and twice as nice!

I am a cheapskate!!!

Be glad that you have lime marmalade. I have never seen that at any local or specialty food market in Chicago. I can get lime yougurt and lime jello and even lime ice cream, but not lime jam, jelly or marmalade!

**rupertramjet** · May 5th, 2018, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Be glad that you have lime marmalade. I have never seen that at any local or specialty food market in Chicago. I can get lime yougurt and lime jello and even lime ice cream, but not lime jam, jelly or marmalade!

You have been cruelly deprived TM! It is a thing of great delight and pleasure, well if you like limes that is! What about lemon?

**trailmaster** · May 5th, 2018, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rupertramjet

You have been cruelly deprived TM! It is a thing of great delight and pleasure, well if you like limes that is! What about lemon?

I can get lemon jam and jelly.

**cuzzyman927** · May 5th, 2018, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by rupertramjet

Most British Supermarkets now have a coin slot in the trolleys, if you do not take them back you lose your money, seems to have reduced the problem dramatically!

How is the money returned, mechanically or physically by a store employee?

By either means the stores/markets would never go for it. If mechanically they would then need to purchase dozens and dozens of so-equipped shopping carts, and that's not going to happen. If physically they would need to assign a store employee to man the operation, and that's out of the question. As it is stores/markets are trying to make due with less employees -- some stores may have as many as 10-12 checkout registers, but only 3-4 of them are in operation on any given day!

They may send an employee out to the parking lot perhaps only twice a day to collect the shopping carts left scattered about by lazy customers. On certain days when pulling into the parking lot one must actually navigate around the array of abandoned shopping carts -- it looks like a battle ground of shopping carts!

**Mal Hombre** · May 5th, 2018, 09:09 PM

The coin is returned when You return the trolley and attach the chain.

**cuzzyman927** · May 5th, 2018, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

The coin is returned when You return the trolley and attach the chain.

Now I know for sure the stores/markets around here would never purchase that special equipment.

**Dr Pepper** · May 5th, 2018, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rupertramjet

You have been cruelly deprived TM! It is a thing of great delight and pleasure, well if you like limes that is! What about lemon?

Lemon curd is a rather nice alternative for those tastebud special occasions..also known as lemon honey in some jurisdictions...

Speaking of lime marmalade I'm about to have some on my breakfast toast, it being sunday am here...

**Dr Pepper** · May 5th, 2018, 09:21 PM

I first saw it in the supermarkets in Israel when I was with the UN-that was 1999-so the equipment has been around at least that long. I would have thought that the saving in aggravation and the cost in time for employees to round up the errant trolleys, corrall them and return them to the proximity of the store would justify the outlay on the coin release units.

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Dr Pepper Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: NZ Posts: 4,043 Thanks: 70,747 Thanked 40,980 Times in 4,034 Posts	I first saw it in the supermarkets in Israel when I was with the UN-that was 1999-so the equipment has been around at least that long. I would have thought that the saving in aggravation and the cost in time for employees to round up the errant trolleys, corrall them and return them to the proximity of the store would justify the outlay on the coin release units.