Could I make a little gun and just walk around through the parking lot and aisles of the supermarket and freeze all the carts in place?

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    What’s interesting about these carts is that they only ever seem to be deployed at stores that I wouldn’t think were prone to cart theft, to begin with. They’re always in the nicer neighborhoods at the overpriced stores that nobody should be shopping at in the first place.

    Meanwhile, every cart at the stores in the worse neighborhoods look like they’ve been used as target practice for an M1 Abrams tank, have no locks, and can be found scattered on random street corners for a 3 mile radius from the store.

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      2 months ago

      Because the former location just virtue signal, the latter can’t afford to lose the majority of customers.

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      2 months ago

      One of the proposed features is locking the cart if someone is about to walk out without paying.

      The cost of the RF locking wheels isn’t far off the price of a replacement cart. (Not to mention the investment in digging up the entire outline of the lot burying the line.