Ask a shopping trolley collector anything
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We've had a few threads where you can ask someone w a particular job anything, so here's one for trolley collectors
I am not a trolley collector myself, but I was hoping maybe someone on here that was would see this and answer.
Here's one for starters. Some shops want you to put a pound in the trolley, which you don't get back til you return it. When you collect the trolleys that still have a pound in, do you get to keep the pound? What's the most you've made in a day?
I am not a trolley collector myself, but I was hoping maybe someone on here that was would see this and answer.
Here's one for starters. Some shops want you to put a pound in the trolley, which you don't get back til you return it. When you collect the trolleys that still have a pound in, do you get to keep the pound? What's the most you've made in a day?
There's no ASDA stores near me (closest one according to Google maps is over 8 miles away) but I still occasionally see abandoned ASDA trolleys which is an impressive distance to push a trolley.
I also noticed recently a Safeway trolley in Tesco car park, considering that Safeway closed down over a decade ago how did it turn up there?
I also noticed recently a Safeway trolley in Tesco car park, considering that Safeway closed down over a decade ago how did it turn up there?
Super Sonic said:
. Some shops want you to put a pound in the trolley, which you don't get back til you return it. When you collect the trolleys that still have a pound in, do you get to keep the pound? What's the most you've made in a day?
Most people use little token discs these days instead of pounds, if there was a pound in it then I doubt the shop would ask for it back.untakenname said:
There's no ASDA stores near me (closest one according to Google maps is over 8 miles away) but I still occasionally see abandoned ASDA trolleys which is an impressive distance to push a trolley.
I also noticed recently a Safeway trolley in Tesco car park, considering that Safeway closed down over a decade ago how did it turn up there?
Or even a door keyI also noticed recently a Safeway trolley in Tesco car park, considering that Safeway closed down over a decade ago how did it turn up there?
Super Sonic said:
. Some shops want you to put a pound in the trolley, which you don't get back til you return it. When you collect the trolleys that still have a pound in, do you get to keep the pound? What's the most you've made in a day?
Most people use little token discs these days instead of pounds, if there was a pound in it then I doubt the shop would ask for it back.If they leave that in the trolley, they're in for a shock when they get home with the shopping.
I had a friend who had a Saturday job doing this whilst at university.
On Friday evening, him and his friends would collect some trolleys from the supermarket and take them to the pub with them.
On Saturday, he'd clock in at work and then go to the pub, have a pint or two and return a couple of hours later with three or four trolleys.
On Friday evening, him and his friends would collect some trolleys from the supermarket and take them to the pub with them.
On Saturday, he'd clock in at work and then go to the pub, have a pint or two and return a couple of hours later with three or four trolleys.
As a youth I had an evening job down the local town centre Tesco. This was in the days before having locking trolleys, so they were just abandonned at every car park in town.
On a quiet night in the store you'd be volunteered to go out for a stroll and see what you could track down and bring back.
It was a decent skive, until the one day that the council fished out all the trolleys from the harbour and nature reserve lake and told each supermarket to come and collect their's sharpish.
Trolleys covered in seaweed and barnacles don't roll or steer very well.
On a quiet night in the store you'd be volunteered to go out for a stroll and see what you could track down and bring back.
It was a decent skive, until the one day that the council fished out all the trolleys from the harbour and nature reserve lake and told each supermarket to come and collect their's sharpish.
Trolleys covered in seaweed and barnacles don't roll or steer very well.
Abandoned trolleys on my estate 'borrowed' from supermarkets by feckless scum too lazy to return them is a real gear grinder for me.
If you see some heifer puffing on a fag wheeling one half a mile away from the shop you know 100% it won't be going back.
So question to our trolley meister. How many do you lose a week?
If you see some heifer puffing on a fag wheeling one half a mile away from the shop you know 100% it won't be going back.
So question to our trolley meister. How many do you lose a week?
HTP99 said:
I started working for Sainsburys as a student one month after my 15th birthday (you could do it at that age back then) this was 33 years ago, the full time trolley person when I started, is still there doing trolleys!
There's a chap like this at our local ASDA. The place is always immaculate when he's on shift and you can really tell the difference when he's had a few days off. I can see that sort of job being quite nice, pays just about enough for a living, no stress, something to take pride in.GliderRider said:
If a trolley has a wonky castor, how long does it usually take to get a new one fitted, once reported, and are they done on site by the shop staff, fixed by contractors or sent away for repairs?
Ours usually go off to the back yard and sit there until Wanzl come and service a load at once, or decommission them as unrepairable and get them collected.I'm an online manager, but don't mind doing some trollies now and then.. Get out there in the sun, nice little workout. When you've got a full train going it's pretty heavy, and mavis just wants to add hers to it.. No worries
Other thing customers don't realise is how heavy an online trolly can be, when they suddenly stop infront of you for a chat with a friend or because they've suddenly remembered something.. There's a reason why the shoppers take a wide corner between aisles, because its damn heavy.
Did Trolleying as a night shift once for a few months.
Some Barryboys type modded car owners used to use the back corner of the car park without permission to hang out, smoke dope and donut their tyres.
One Saturday we put every single trolley into the one trolley stack locked into the torlley shelter at the front end, producing a 100ft barricade to both the car park exits. Bext morning, there were a lot of broken ibts of exhausts and splitters next to the kerbs they had driver over to get out.
Security watched the CCTV apparently it was really funny they managed to take about 40 trolleys off the stack (was about 500 in total) before they ran out of pound coins and decided to damage their vehicles on kerbs to get out. Not one of them had the sense to put those 40 trolleys back in a new stack and the use the retrieved 40 £1 coins to move the next 40 trolleys. They didn't even get their coins back they were so mad, so I with my oppo got a £20 cash bonus that night from the Security guys. (Most nights stacking the trolleys up you'd get 3 or 4 four with coins in so at 2008 money that were a couple of pints).
Some Barryboys type modded car owners used to use the back corner of the car park without permission to hang out, smoke dope and donut their tyres.
One Saturday we put every single trolley into the one trolley stack locked into the torlley shelter at the front end, producing a 100ft barricade to both the car park exits. Bext morning, there were a lot of broken ibts of exhausts and splitters next to the kerbs they had driver over to get out.
Security watched the CCTV apparently it was really funny they managed to take about 40 trolleys off the stack (was about 500 in total) before they ran out of pound coins and decided to damage their vehicles on kerbs to get out. Not one of them had the sense to put those 40 trolleys back in a new stack and the use the retrieved 40 £1 coins to move the next 40 trolleys. They didn't even get their coins back they were so mad, so I with my oppo got a £20 cash bonus that night from the Security guys. (Most nights stacking the trolleys up you'd get 3 or 4 four with coins in so at 2008 money that were a couple of pints).
TwigtheWonderkid said:
My elderly mum had a furious row at her supermarket, after putting a pound in the trolley but only getting a Euro back. They had the cheek to tell her she got back what she put in. The nerve of them, do they think she's daft???? This was a few days after she got back from Portugal.
Properly laughed at this - it’s exactly what my father would do 
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