Home Depot doesn't make plastic carts anymore AFAIK, they're all aluminum. And they're about 300$ for the regular ones and 500$ for the lumber carts. As CryingTree said, its easy for a retailer to lose 10k in carts a year, tho in a store as busy as mine its probably more like 100k. That 100k can get me at least 3 more employees so ppl will stop bitching about how Home Depot is so understaffed.

Chipper

SUICIDEGIRL

Arizona, USA

NOV 06, 2007 11:29 AM

Shopping carts are expensive!

There's actually quite a few people who's job it is, to go hunt down abandoned carts, and bring them back to the stores. Shopping cart bounty hunters!

Nimbusfool

Moscow, ID

August 2006

NOV 06, 2007 03:06 PM

Cliche_Guevara said:
Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys has been at it again...

gcash056

Orlando, FL

October 2004

NOV 06, 2007 05:15 PM

publicAnemone said:

You called TCK FTR.

LOL.

Sigh. Yes, I know... then it wouldn't let me edit it. I sense ulterior motive from the blog coders! It's a conspiracy!

mekanik

Columbus, OH

November 2004

NOV 06, 2007 06:50 PM

I thought of Bubbles, too

bekindtomonkeys

Denton, TX

October 2007

NOV 06, 2007 07:22 PM

ardour said:
Stolen from a Canadian Home Depot, to boot.

Behind our building there's a ditch where all the carts end up. In the winter the ditch freezes and they all get stuck in there, looking kind of like some Canadian version of the La Brea Tar Pits.

to BOOT, or to BOUT? you know those canadians and their damned pronunciations.

jermhawk

Tidioute, PA

December 2004

NOV 06, 2007 07:59 PM

Damn it! I spent my youth making bombs and playing with fire, missing out on all the shopping cart glory. I WAS deprived.

Gringo

Spokane, WA

May 2006

NOV 06, 2007 08:06 PM

Dunno, I think this whole shopping cart fiasco started when they started making those darned CKY videos in the 90s.

Clidna

Canada

January 2005

NOV 06, 2007 10:02 PM

bekindtomonkeys said:

to BOOT, or to BOUT? you know those canadians and their damned pronunciations.

The joke is supposed to be, we pronounce 'bout' like 'boot', you silly twit
No doot aboot it!

Bilharzia

I'm lost

April 2004

NOV 06, 2007 10:46 PM

zerokewl said:
Shoppingkart.org Check it out. I have been obsessed with abandoned carts for 5 years now.

nice work. very iconic...or something. i shot some carts too once. i like them a lot.

we have these guys in vancouver (probably everywhere now) that scoop recyclable metal wherever they can find it. they call them "buggy bandits".

about two minutes from where we live some indians were using a cart to build a fishing weir in a river. they built a damn to funnel salmon into the cart where they were recovered by hand.

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Emeryville, CA

March 2004

NOV 06, 2007 09:52 AM