City to host stakeholder meetings on abandoned shopping cart controls ordinance (Savannah: how much, neighborhoods)

[Airforceguy]

I think this may turn out to be a good idea...

As currently drafted, the ordinance will apply to merchants with 10 or more shopping carts in their inventory. The purpose of the meetings is for stakeholders to provide feedback regarding the ordinance
Accumulation of shopping carts in neighborhoods, canals, ditches and city rights-of way amounts to a nuisance, which reduces property values, promotes blight and deterioration, and interferes with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, according to city officials. The ordinance is designed to abate these conditions.

City to host stakeholder meetings on abandoned shopping cart controls ordinance | SavannahNow

[gentlearts]

Aldi’s has a remedy that could be used to address this problem, but it is the lack of available innovation that is at fault.
At a Bed Bath etc, or Target in NC, the carts stop at the door with a sensor.
A business will use the innovations available to stop theft, whatever form that takes, vs, cost to impliment it.
My DH works pt at HD. He is surprised at how much theft is expected, and written into the annual budget.
My point is...a business can address this themselves if it is cost effective. The government needs to act accordingly.

I think Savannah is finding a bunch of grocery carts, and incurring an expense disposing of them, or returning them? So be it.