Re the article "Action on trolleys" (Leader, September 18).
How many years have they been talking about fixing this problem! Nothing ever happens. Let's face it the Supermarkets don't want to uoset their customers many of whom think they have the right to take and dump the trolley wherever they want to. Time to get tough on the supermarkets.
Marilyn Richardson
About time. I have rung Coles and Woollies after heaps of trolleys left for months around our area filled with trash by passing people. They take no notice even if it's a popular dumping ground. They come from Hurstville to Carlton. Sometimes with one small bag in it. To me it's stolen property.
Jan Callus
I have seen people pushing trolleys with only one or two nearly empty bags in them down Greenbank Street to King Georges Road. These trolleys would have to come from Westfields. And pushing them over Supercentre would be so much harder than carrying them. People just don't care. Coles and council should do something about this problem.
Kathryn Conroy
I live in South Hurstville and am sick of seeing them abandoned in the streets around here.
Toni Horsey
I live in Donald St and there is one house that had four trolleys out the front last week and I have seen the same house time and time again with trolleys on their front lawn.
Its not rocket science to know that everyone that took a trolley home in the same street would put out in front of the same house week after week, year after year.
It is obviously the owner of the house takes their groceries home in a trolley then dumps out the front of their house.
Coles trolleys at Rhodes Shopping centre stop when they get outside the centre so this would be far more economical than buying several tractors, fuelling, registering and insuring them and then employing someone to drive around all the streets of Hurstville retrieving abandoned trolleys.
Barbara Parker
I've been talking about this for a long time - trolleys being left on the road.
From what we've seen on our trip to NZ, our daughter lives there, there are no trolleys to be seen on the roads.
Why? It's a very simple "trick" - most of the exits from car parks into the street, have some sort of a "grill" like the ones on the escalators. The wheels get lock in there so you can't push the trolleys to get through.
And if you happen to get through and you get caught, it's a heavy fine.
So no coins, no electronic devices, just a very simple way of attacking this. No one complains and there are no trolleys on the road.
G. Pasten, Bexley
Seem to be the preferred method of moving belongings between rented units. I've seen so many being used to shift household items. More around Hurstville than any other suburb in St George LGAs.
Toni Moldrich
Have them all stop working once they leave xx metres. I've worked at a couple of Coles stores that had this in place.
Melissa Kleindienst
Our local council has started impounding the abandoned trolleys. They've created a nice new revenue stream from the fines the supermarkets pay to pick them up.
Joanne Rogers
Bondi Junction Westfield has a system, which stops the wheels, of trolleys, as soon as they get to the exit. A coin in the slot is, also, a great way to get users to return their trolley.
Lorraine Ratcliffe
I am currently back in Sydney (visiting) and have been flabbergasted/horrified to see these carts strewn everywhere. What the heck? Just recently, I was in Chicago and noted a Target store whose shopping carts locked after a certain distance from the store.
Janet Willis
It's the tell tale sign of poor folk and larrikins living in the area. I kinda think if folks need to lug their weekly shop then they should be able to. Pass on the costs of rounding them up to profit driven monopolies like Coles and Woolies. I reckon it would create jobs, instead of giving them all to machines ..... pay the trolly pushers. And we shouldn't further alienate these housos etc by making them feel bad about it. Haves, have nots, some folks don't drive a car. Just a thought.
Adam Sunderland
Trolleys are a convenience supermarkets provide. Have the decency to return the trolley after use.
Amber Johnstone
Put GPS chips on them with geofencing, so the super market is alerted when the trolley is out of the area. The trolley can then "call home" to the trolley person to pick it up.
Richard Morton
It's not the supermarkets it's the users / abusers that create the issue.
Kim simpson
Put cattle grates around all exit points, or like the materials used to make the escalators that lock the wheels from pushing.
Julie McJools
Georges River Council is soft and just keep putting our rates up instead of charging the people actually responsible for the filth. Charge the shops for the dumped trolleys. Ban trolleys without coins.
Max Murray, Hurstville
