Shopping Trolleys

There is a little trick to supermarket shopping trolleys.  

For some destructive reason, you might see trolleys randomly dumped on a verge, or worse, in a pond or canel.  Many supermarkets chain their trolleys together to try prevent this sort of behaviour.  

In order to use a trolley, you need to insert a one Pound coin as "deposit" into the slot on the handle, then pull the chain out the back of the lock on the handlebar.

When you have completed your shopping, it is as simple as taking the trolley back to the designated trolley bay, and dock your trolley with others like it.  Take the chain from the trolley in front and insert it into the lock on your trolley. Your £1 coin pops back out, ready to use next time.

Oh, and if you get to back to the trolley bay after shopping and there are no other trolleys like yours - ie: you cannot dock - there will be a long chain with the locking clip so you can still get your coin out.

You can buy fancy trolley tokens - little metal disks the size and shape of a £1 coin. These tokens could have any logo or colour you like.  Kinda pointless in my opinion, but with cash becoming a rare commodity these days, maybe they will be necessary in future.

It is good behaviour to return your trolley to the trolley bay for the next person to use.

There have been other methods of encouraging this good behaviour. Some places have an automatic wheel lock on their trolleys.  If you go out of range of their store - out of the parking - the trolleys wheels lock up making it really difficult to move.