Shopping carts around your neighborhood?

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elgringo

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I live close to Barranca and Culver and have noticed an increase in the number of shopping carts around the neighborhood. I am sure there are multiple reasons for the carts appearing in neighborhoods but I can't help but wonder if this is a sign of decline. When I first moved to Irvine years ago I never saw this. I then moved to Aliso Viejo and began to see this more frequently and now, having returned to Irvine, it is sad to see it recur.

Is this a problem in your neighborhoods as well?
 
I can appreciate your concern, abandoned shopping carts normally means the neighborhood is declining, that's the first red Flag!

I can't say I've seen any in my area of Westpark...

The stores need to put in one of those $1 deposit systems like at the Airports...or to make it really worthwhile to return a Cart, $5!!
 
YES, YES...

Woodbury Court as many of you have know is going down hill, I have counted three carts this week... I personally seen a neighbor I know push his cart all the way home from Ralphs...

If you drive by right now, tonight, there is one cart in the bushes on Townsgate and Hallmark...

At the trash bin, there is a growing collection of like 6+ carts, just waiting to be picked up! Ah, hem.. just a FYI for anyone who works at WB Ralphs...

great... come on down to the Irvine hood for the TI Get Together...
 
I haven't noticed any shopping carts, but I do think Irvine is more ghetto now than it was a couple of years ago.
 
[quote author="traceimage"]I haven't noticed any shopping carts, but I do think Irvine is more ghetto now than it was a couple of years ago.[/quote]

really? in what way?
 
[quote author="peteruk"]
[quote author="traceimage"]I haven't noticed any shopping carts, but I do think Irvine is more ghetto now than it was a couple of years ago.[/quote]

really? in what way?[/quote]

Well, I've noticed more homeless and scuzzy-looking people around these days. Maybe it's the economy.

Wow, that really does sound snobby and obnoxious, doesn't it?
 
All around Woodbury there are shopping carts. When I used to live in Woodbury Court (about a year ago), there were a lot of carts in the trash areas and we had to call Ralphs to let them know because it was getting ridiculous.

I don't really understand it at all. Most people have cars and the Ralphs is only a block or so away. I mean, really? I even saw a cart dropped off right behind the Ralphs on the corner of Hallmark and Towngate. Oy.

I wish that Woodbury would put that invisible electronic system that keeps them from being removed from the parking lot. It's not tacky, it's just being responsible.
 
At that Ralph's, they don't let you take the car-shopping-carts (the kind with the car at the front of the cart for the kids) out to the parking lot. The checker told me they will either escort you out and bring the cart back or switch your groceries to a regular cart at check-out. Apparently, they've seen people try to swipe the car shopping carts or push their kids and groceries home with it if they live nearby, then they don't bring them back. They used to have more of them than they do now. I only know this because I always grocery shop with a three year old who insists on "driving" the car shopping cart. <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->
 
[quote author="SoCal78"]At that Ralph's, they don't let you take the car-shopping-carts (the kind with the car at the front of the cart for the kids) out to the parking lot. The checker told me they will either escort you out and bring the cart back or switch your groceries to a regular cart at check-out. Apparently, they've seen people try to swipe the car shopping carts or push their kids and groceries home with it if they live nearby, then they don't bring them back. They used to have more of them than they do now. I only know this because I always grocery shop with a three year old who insists on "driving" the car shopping cart. <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->[/quote]

I get the same treatment at Pavilions in OH. My son loves pushing the mini-grocery cart when we shop. They stopped me from heading out the door with it. I guess they are too easily stolen.
 
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