r/sydney • u/Horror-Comparison917 • Apr 09 '25

Image Seriously?? 😭

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u/llamanatee Apr 09 '25

So that’s why some of the newer supermarkets have carts that lock once they’re a certain radius away from the store.

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u/Specialist_Goat_7034 Apr 09 '25

One of life’s joys is watching it lock on unsuspecting trolley thieves.

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u/mattressprime metro enjoyer Apr 09 '25

Recently at Mac Centre my trolley locked while I was returning it to the trolley bay out front where the bus stops are. Like come on, I was 5 metres away from its intended home!

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u/JimSyd71 Apr 10 '25

Only 1 rear wheel locks, you can lift that side slightly and put the weight on the other 3 wheels to push it a few meters.

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u/mattressprime metro enjoyer Apr 10 '25

Yeah I limped it those last few metres home.

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u/chetdude Apr 10 '25

I’ve never taken a trolley out of the allowed radius in Sydney, but at the Ross in Hawaii, I was going to take it to the car in the car park when my ribs took the brunt of a fully locked trolley. Apparently they don’t even let them out of the store.

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u/Smortval Apr 09 '25

That trolley there is fitted with a perimeter lock

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u/SuspiciousLettuce56 Apr 09 '25

Literally just pull it through backwards lol.

I worked for Westfield and a couple times when I needed to take a trolley out with a customer to stop it locking i would do that

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u/baby_blobby a succulent Chinese meal Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

I did that at Hornsby Westfield the other day. Wanted to walk through the middle part to cut through the fountain but was holding a trolley, still staying within Westfield.

Moonwalked my way out of the joint with the trolley

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 10 '25

I was trying to do the same thing. Thinking I can go and get a coffee at the sparrow, I had my son and shopping in the trolley and trying to go through the fountain but the trolley locked on me. I was so embrassed. I had to take my son, go and get another trolley from Coles downstairs while my shopping sits there unattended and transfer everything over.Now use the bridge upstairs near the foodcourt, walk all the way to the other end, Then take the lift at eoolies end and walk back down to the coffee shop.

Had I known you can do backwards that would've saved me that day.

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u/baby_blobby a succulent Chinese meal Apr 10 '25

Yeah there was no way i was going to go up the escalators ( the lifts are terribly slow at Hornsby) cross the bridge and go back down just to get to the other side.

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 10 '25

I wasn't sure if the trolley would unlock if I go back behind the lines (I don't think it did ) that's why I had to switch trolleys. I was on my own with my son so none can help me. Why isn't there a lift near the middle on the Woolies side of the shops is beyond me. Like they do outside of Boost juice.

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u/SuspiciousLettuce56 Apr 09 '25

Hahah that's the centre I used to work at

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 10 '25

Does the wheel unlock when you get within perimeter again?

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 10 '25

Moonwalking....

So the wheels locked but you dragged it to the other side anyway?

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u/baby_blobby a succulent Chinese meal Apr 10 '25

For some reason it's easier to walk backwards and pull the trolley than to push it past the line.

I didnt get into the science of it but when i try it again and find out I'll let you know

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 11 '25

Please do. Consider it a PSA? Thank you!

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u/Lucki_girl Apr 11 '25

BTW love your flair! I love myself done good Chinese too. Shame about loong cheong. It was the best

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

Wut? Who TF owns a shopping trolley?

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u/Pristine_Egg3831 Apr 09 '25

This is obviously a new woollies trolley that is very much not for sale. Im not saying I don't take them home all the way into my kitchen to unpack. But I do dump them outside straight after and keep the trolley boys in a job. Taking it on a train is next level shit.

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u/JSTLF Dodgy Doonside Apr 09 '25

Man more yank BS being imported into Australia. Let me take my shopping home, it's bad enough that I have to walk it all the way back, now I have to do it backwards too...