|
|
 |
| |
Wandering trolleys
• HAVING counted five Sainsbury’s trolleys between Chadwell Street and Liverpool Road on Saturday morning, I decided to return one full of rubbish which had been sitting in front of the abandoned BT building for a fortnight.
I asked the duty manager why Sainsbury’s make it so easy for people to steal trolleys, and his reaction was that it wasn’t the store’s fault.
When I pointed out that Iceland has fitted its trolleys with tall metal rods that prevent their removal from shops and that other branches of Sainsbury’s have trolleys whose wheels lock when they are removed from the premises, he said that he had budgetary constraints and the £1 charge was a way of dealing with the problem.
What a nonsense! How much would it cost this multi-million pound organisation to put up signs impressing on customers that it is an offence to remove trolleys from shops? It is a hell of a lot cheaper for people to walk the trolleys home than pay for a taxi, and this must stop.
MARY PACHNOS
Cavaye Place, SW10 |
 |
| |
|
|
|
