The answer is to remove the shopping carts and larger and larger shopping carparks in prime locations (ie right next to the shops!) AND then do everything online and via delivery.
You may not see it, but this is inevitable for the larger food chain stores.
I think its inevitable.
The carparks near shops are prime land, even just a few hundred feet squared could be worth half a million dollars.
What I see is shops providing small wheeled baskets only, for larger amounts (say a cart full) that would have to be delivered (or picked up).
The profit for this would way supersede what is currently in place. Trolley collection alone is generally a half million dollar service per year at each shopping complex.
Oh and to answer others who say that leaving their cart anywhere keeps trolley/cart collectors in the job, its just not true. Trolley/Cart collectors must pick them up at many designated return areas and then push (at least 10 at a time) back in.
If everyone placed the trolleys in the return trolley designated spots the collection business would continue as per normal. I find people (other than say parents who can't leave their kids alone) who do not wheel their trolley back to where the closest grouped area is, to be very lazy.
Your cost model sucks, buddy. It will always be cheaper for low income people to drive to the store to shop. That's why Aldi's system provides such a strong incentive to return each cart.
Is it normal for Americans to leave shopping carts all over the place?
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The answer is to remove the shopping carts and larger and larger shopping carparks in prime locations (ie right next to the shops!) AND then do everything online and via delivery.
You may not see it, but this is inevitable for the larger food chain stores.
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Everything online via delivery. Some places do this. Same day delivery too ex. Manhattan - Amazon
How about having a drone deliver it all to your doorstep?
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I think its inevitable.
The carparks near shops are prime land, even just a few hundred feet squared could be worth half a million dollars.
What I see is shops providing small wheeled baskets only, for larger amounts (say a cart full) that would have to be delivered (or picked up).
The profit for this would way supersede what is currently in place. Trolley collection alone is generally a half million dollar service per year at each shopping complex.
Oh and to answer others who say that leaving their cart anywhere keeps trolley/cart collectors in the job, its just not true. Trolley/Cart collectors must pick them up at many designated return areas and then push (at least 10 at a time) back in.
If everyone placed the trolleys in the return trolley designated spots the collection business would continue as per normal. I find people (other than say parents who can't leave their kids alone) who do not wheel their trolley back to where the closest grouped area is, to be very lazy.
Your cost model sucks, buddy. It will always be cheaper for low income people to drive to the store to shop. That's why Aldi's system provides such a strong incentive to return each cart.