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Talking about the carrying baskets you can use when you're only picking up a few items.
I went into my local Weis supermarket in suburban Flanders, Morris County, to find that there were no carrying baskets. I had to get a cart.
The lady said they once had 50, and were down to 3 so the manager took them away and decided not to buy any more.
Is that happening elsewhere? I was in Shop Rite last week in the same town and they seemed to have plenty of baskets. Maybe their manager is more optimistic and is still replacing them? My thought is that this happened because people would rather steal a basket than buy a bag. But my son works at a supermarket in Pennsylvania where bags are still legal, and their baskets get stolen, too. Weird thing to steal.
People are/were shopping with their groceries in the baskets and bringing them home. Typically leave the basket at the counter and walk home with the bags. Well if you don't have bags you take the basket to your car and you either leave with it or put it in the cart-return. Some people didn't want tomatoes and cans rolling around their car. Pretty sure it happened everywhere, some places are replacing them other decided not too.
Also as a side-note, we banned grocery bags and plastic straws to save the sea life, however this administration has been directly responsible for killing at least a dozen whales and countless dolphins so far.
DO NOT FEAR. There is new legislation in the works to make all supermarket baskets made of bamboo so when people steal them, they do not go in the landfill. No legislation to stop people from stealing, just some to handle the REAL problem
Is that happening elsewhere? Weird thing to steal.
No, not everywhere. If you go to the Princeton Whole Foods store (actually located in West Windsor), you will see that shopping baskets are still available--in abundance.
No, not everywhere. If you go to the Princeton Whole Foods store (actually located in West Windsor), you will see that shopping baskets are still available--in abundance.
Not surprising about Princeton, but Flanders is pretty posh in its own right.
Pretty posh?
Perhaps...
However, it's likely that the locals are larcenous if those baskets have all been removed.
Don't worry, I'll get to the bottom of it. Like I said, the ShopRite around the corner in the same perhaps-posh town had plenty of handbaskets last week.
Most stores have few personnel around those self checkout lanes to make sure that nobody is carrying out with those small baskets. Now Weiss I guess is not one of them. If you visit the Flanders shop-rite or any of the big box box stores (e.g. Wal-mart, target etc), they have that policy with the Shop-rite in Mansfield going to the extreme that you have to pay a 25c deposit to take the shopping cart which you would get back when return the cart (reason, I don't prefer going there).
I don't think there are baskets in my ShopRite either. Thank you for solving this mystery! I thought they just moved them and it didn't make any sense to me. People just really suck.
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