STOMPer tricia spotted this woman pushing a NTUC Fairprice trolley away from Jurong Point today (18 Feb), instead of returning it to the supermarket.
The STOMPer said:
"This woman was caught not returning a NTUC trolley."
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Woman takes trolley out of Jurong Point
Friday, February 19th, 2010Charge $20 rental for trolley? It would inconvenience shoppers, says FairPrice
Friday, February 12th, 2010
A Spokesperson for FairPrice stated that it is ultimately the shoppers’ responsibility in returning supermarket trolleys. The company previously tested various methods including ID exchange, but they were not cost effective, and inconvenience shoppers instead.
This is in response to two STOMPers contributions on trolleys stolent. The first was sent in by STOMPer Cherry, on trolley thieves using a second trolley to eject the $1 coin and the other by STOMPer Ling Ling, who suggests that the company implements a $20 rental fee to solve the missing trolleys issue.
The Spokesman for FairPrice says:
"NTUC FairPrice recently launched an initiative to work with the Singapore Kindness Movement in encouraging shoppers to be considerate when using shopping trolleys and to return them after use.
"This is following research commissioned by FairPrice which showed that the majority of shoppers are doing the right thing and yet those who are not, are causing much inconvenience to other shoppers with some 200 to 300 trolleys abandoned each month.
"We refer to a STOMP posting titled ‘Trolley thieves use second trolley to eject coin from first by STOMPer Cherry on 9 February 2010, which complimented the action as a ’smart method’. We would like to highlight the severity of such an act which is inconsiderate, wrong and should not be encouraged.
"We take the opportunity to also thank STOMPer Ling Ling and the various STOMPers’ suggestions in response to the 11 February 2010 posting titled ‘Solution for missing trolleys: Impose $20 rental fee’. We would like to share that FairPrice has in the past implemented various measures to address this industry-wide trolley issue, ranging from ID exchange to the use of perimeter sensor technology. What we have realised is that these brought more inconvenience to our customers, are not cost effective and trolley abandoners would always find ways to beat the system.
"As such, it is ultimately the shoppers’ responsibility to return the trolleys after use so that the next person gets to use it too. We are confident that given that the majority of shoppers are doing the right thing, they can help by influencing and encouraging others to do so too."
Trolley thieves use second trolley to eject coin from first
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
STOMPer Cherry discovered a smart method that some use to extract coins from supermarket trolleys yesterday – simply ‘attach’ two trolleys together and push them apart.
She says in an email to STOMP:
"Found these 2 supermarket trolleys abandoned at a HDB void deck in Jurong West.
"These 2 trolleys were ‘attached’ together.
"The person could have pushed the trolleys back, so that he or she could remove the dollar coins.
"How clever!"
Teens happily take shopping trolley on their East Coast outing
Monday, January 18th, 2010
STOMPer Jian says we now have one less missing trolley case to solve after spotting some teenagers happily pushing a shopping mart trolley at East Coast Parkway.
In an email to STOMP today (Jan 18), the STOMPer says:
“This video was captured on 31 Dec, 2009 at 4pm at East Coast Parkway, somewhere opposite the NTUC.
“Now we have one less missing trolley case to solve.”
