Home Depot with locking carts

[platoonDaddy]

Surprised to learn 1st hand Home Depot now has locking carts to prevent thefts. If the cart isn’t deactivated, the wheels lock up on exiting, kicking off an alarm

Any in your area?

 

[Huckleberry]

I like Aldi’s carts

Made a $1.75 but it was tough.

That last old lady put up quite a fight for her cart

 

[foodpoison]

I am curious how the tech on these work. They have been around for decades. Have not noticed at HD

 

[traveller]

Surprised to learn 1st hand Home Depot now has locking carts to prevent thefts. If the cart isn’t deactivated, the wheels lock up on exiting, kicking off an alarm

Any in your area?

Supermarket in Baltimore had that 25 years ago. Kept the locals from 'liberating' the carts.

 

[mpollan1]

Difference is proximity. HD locks up at the entrance/exit. Supermarket allows you to roll out to your car.

 

[traveller]

Difference is proximity. HD locks up at the entrance/exit. Supermarket allows you to roll out to your car.

Ah. So you don't wheel the merchandize out. Nah, haven't seen that.

 

[mpollan1]

Yeah, doesn't affect me. I just stuff my pockets and rucksack. I don't need no steenkin cart

 

[platoonDaddy]

Ah. So you don't wheel the merchandize out. Nah, haven't seen that.

Locks it up tight, forcing u to bounce off the cart…

 

[Rockzilla]

Locking Carts...love -em when the thieves load em up and run
some are proximity others are a wire laid in the asphalt / concrete
they have remotes that unlock the wheels, some places "lock-em"
when the store closes. so people don't steal them..BTW they make
great DIY grills..

What's really funny is as in this example
Was the opening Mgr. we sold beer and wine a nice sunny Saturday
morning. around 8am, 3 Hispanics came in to load their cart up with
Corona 12pks. My people told me they saw some guys hanging around
the registers, and we basically knew they were gonna bolt out the door
so sure enuff they did, a couple of my guys were like, "lets" go get em
that cart was heavy loaded with all them 12 packs, nah I said, just wait
I knew where the lock-up point was.so my guys took a smoke break.
Here's these 2 Hispanics pushing this cart as fast as they can up this
inclined parking lot. the other guy was in front, I was like wait for it,
just wait for it....and "now" well those wheels locked up and in combination
of all that weight, one guy up over the shopping cart, the other guy
hit the ground, the 3rd just took off. the one guy who become airborne
needed help to try and run away, so my guys started laughing, couldn't
stop, and we got it all on Camera. "PRICELESS"
Tally for today: Cart: 1 / Hispanics: 0,, oh we got the beer back.
Another thing we used to do, is you could point one of our hand held
things at the cart and would lock just those wheels, get somebody who's
had way to much to drink, and their buying more and lock the wheels
is really a show stopper, recording it in living color on a Hires video
system is fantastic..add your own narration...PRICELESS

-Rock

 

[gamer_jim]

I made 25 cents yesterday going to Aldi's. Someone left their unlocked cart out which I used then locked it when I left.

 

[PapiBarcelona]

A much better solution than a tablet mounted on aisle racking with a looped video of a guy sitting in a room watching a computer screen, typing on a computer and constantly answering and "talking" on a phone.