Supermarket giant Woolworths today launched a new system for keeping tabs on the thousands of trolleys that go “feral” in Queensland each year. Launched by Queensland Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation Andrew McNamara, the Trolley Tracker system aims to bring home the 15,000 shopping trolleys that go missing from Woolworths and Big W stores nationally each year.Mr McNamara said wayward shopping trolleys “add to downgrading the environment of adjacent lands and waterways”.
“As a former trolley boy, I am well acquainted with the issues of dragging trolleys from creeks … and the other places trolleys end up,” he told the launch at Woolworths Bulimba.
As part of the scheme, residents who spy abandoned trolleys can call a national toll-free number, with all callers going in to the draw for a monthly reward of $1,000.
As the person who does the weekly grocery shopping I have had my share of tussles with wayward shopping trolleys, you know the ones that will not go where you want them to, the ones that have gaps between the flap at the back that let those small items escape as you trek up and down the aisles, or even the really vicious ones that loiter in the car park ready to scratch the paint on your car. So I think that any effort to stop the worst of the worst of them becoming feral just has to be a good idea. You never know if we don’t keep a lid on these wayward shopping trolleys they may think they are almost human and try to vote “Green” or they could just get religion and instead of groceries start delivering ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel…
Don’t give them a chance.
Dob the buggers in.
Cheers Comrades
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“…instead of groceries start delivering ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel…”
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You mean, like the bomb Timothy McVeigh used..?
I tried the dob in thing a while back, what a waste of time that turned out to be.. didn’t win a damn thing.