IIIHorn said:

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The real answer is often the carts are stolen by the homeless.

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When they can buy one from ALDI for a quarter

Target might still be using Cyberdyne Systems model L-101 SkynetShopper Plus. All of the lighting fixtures have Bluetooth to create a mesh network across the store. It gets used for lighting control, but can also work with their app. You spend 45 seconds looking at toilet paper in the TP aisle, the app figures it out, and you get a push notification with a coupon for Lickety Split 5hit Tickets Mega roll pack.

Home Depot played with something similar and was using it for loss prevention. They tracked carts and tools going to restrooms before shoplifting. Figured out people were hiding in stalls to remove security tags.

The AntAGonist said:

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I like to pretend my cart is a lowrider and I am hitting the switches. I just make it ride on 3 wheels, puro pinche southside style.

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Take another sip of the potion and hit that three wheel motion. Bounce that ***** by the tortillas and down the Goya aisle.

UnderoosAg said:

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NWE said:

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It has to be manual because nobody else had trouble leaving the store.

I'm a clean, very handsome male. No way I would trigger suspicion.

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It's not, it's all automatic. You went outside with a cart which hadn't gone through a check stand to pay. So it locked.

And it happens to dirty, ugly people,, too.

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Funny thing is I went through a checkout stand, and the wheel still locked up. HEB should not be treating 09ers this way. It is almost enough to make me start shopping at Whole Foods.

Burdizzo said:

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toucan82 said:

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I think they're manually triggered by someone in the office. You should try looking less sketchy.

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I am a white guy in Alamo Heights. I am doing the best I can.

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for those that don't know...Alamo Heights is the fancy part of SA

Yup

They even have one of them fancy Central Market HEBs. At least they used to. It might have closed. There's really no way to be sure.

they need to quit screwing around and put in those things from 1980's Running Man and have the wheel blow up when the permitter is not deactivated.

toucan82 said:

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Yup

They even have one of them fancy Central Market HEBs. At least they used to. It might have closed. There's really no way to be sure.

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Not even checking their website?

Tatem said:

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Burdizzo said:

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toucan82 said:

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I think they're manually triggered by someone in the office. You should try looking less sketchy.

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I am a white guy in Alamo Heights. I am doing the best I can.

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for those that don't know...Alamo Heights is the fancy part of SA

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Well, at least we're not Olmos Park

The sorry ass Kroger near me is wasting money w those security devices on carts. 90% of their cheap junk carts don't roll anyway.

Central Market is still open. OP must be too intimidated or poor to shop there.

Burdizzo said:

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UnderoosAg said:

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NWE said:

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It has to be manual because nobody else had trouble leaving the store.

I'm a clean, very handsome male. No way I would trigger suspicion.

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It's not, it's all automatic. You went outside with a cart which hadn't gone through a check stand to pay. So it locked.

And it happens to dirty, ugly people,, too.

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Funny thing is I went through a checkout stand, and the wheel still locked up. HEB should not be treating 09ers this way. It is almost enough to make me start shopping at Whole Foods.

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Did you try turning the cart off and then back on?

UnderoosAg said:

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Burdizzo said:

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UnderoosAg said:

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NWE said:

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It has to be manual because nobody else had trouble leaving the store.

I'm a clean, very handsome male. No way I would trigger suspicion.

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It's not, it's all automatic. You went outside with a cart which hadn't gone through a check stand to pay. So it locked.

And it happens to dirty, ugly people,, too.

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Funny thing is I went through a checkout stand, and the wheel still locked up. HEB should not be treating 09ers this way. It is almost enough to make me start shopping at Whole Foods.

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Did you try turning the cart off and then back on?

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You can do that?

Seriously, after reading this thread I have this suspicion that I may have caused this. I grabbed this cart from the corral in the parking lot, shopped with it, went through the checkout. The one place it did not go through was the holding pen inside the store by the front door. I kind of wonder if that may have caused it.


I am going to do more testing on this

UnderoosAg said:

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toucan82 said:

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I think they're manually triggered by someone in the office. You should try looking less sketchy.

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Look sketchy all you want. It's automatically triggered if the cart isn't reset correctly and it thinks you loaded up and ran for the doors without paying. There's also a wire around the parking lot which locks it up to help prevent cart theft.

Stop being poor and have your 5hit delivered.

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Have you seen who it is picking out your groceries for you? You trust them to pick your meat and produce?

B-1 83 said:

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UnderoosAg said:

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toucan82 said:

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I think they're manually triggered by someone in the office. You should try looking less sketchy.

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Look sketchy all you want. It's automatically triggered if the cart isn't reset correctly and it thinks you loaded up and ran for the doors without paying. There's also a wire around the parking lot which locks it up to help prevent cart theft.

Stop being poor and have your 5hit delivered.

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Have you seen who it is picking out your groceries for you? You trust them to pick your meat and produce?

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I pick meat and produce out once a week. These guys do it 20 times a day. Surely they're better than me, just by force of habit, right? They're hands should subconciously be reaching for the best oranges and ribeyes after a few weeks.

Larry S Ross said:

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The sorry ass Kroger near me is wasting money w those security devices on carts. 90% of their cheap junk carts don't roll anyway.

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T&P for people who have to shop at Kroger

Lift the plastic flap(s) on the kiddo seat. There's a keypad under that handle. Hit up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, start.

Cart just didn't reset. It happens. All the magic happens inside the store, not at the corral. Can also happen if the cart clears the door but then goes back near the door.

I always assume they are choosing / instructed to choose the oldest and the worst. My wife does the shopping, though, the way God intended it.

B-1 83 said:

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UnderoosAg said:

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toucan82 said:

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I think they're manually triggered by someone in the office. You should try looking less sketchy.

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Look sketchy all you want. It's automatically triggered if the cart isn't reset correctly and it thinks you loaded up and ran for the doors without paying. There's also a wire around the parking lot which locks it up to help prevent cart theft.

Stop being poor and have your 5hit delivered.

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Have you seen who it is picking out your groceries for you? You trust them to pick your meat and produce?

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18 year olds who've probably never shopped on their own, picking multiple orders at a time, chasing metrics on order times…. what could possibly go wrong.

This is the GB. Your butler should be handling grocery orders.

I think it finally ended, but when Kroger was trying home delivery in the puro pinche 210, they were filling orders in like Dallas and cross docking in Austin. Pick iffy produce and then send it on a road trip.

FIDO*98* said:

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We have a large portion of our country that believes there is nothing wrong with retail theft.

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my town (or maybe it was county) just announced they are giving hefty fines for businesses who don't report theft.

We don't stand for that crap around these parts.

I would take my twins to the grocery store. I would have one in the cart seat and the other in my arms. When I would see someone with one kid in the two seat race car, I wasn't very nice especially if the kid was clearly old enough to walk.

UnderoosAg said:

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Lift the plastic flap(s) on the kiddo seat. There's a keypad under that handle. Hit up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, start.

Cart just didn't reset. It happens. All the magic happens inside the store, not at the corral. Can also happen if the cart clears the door but then goes back near the door.

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Thanks for the life hack. I was skeptical until I tried it.

62strat said:

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FIDO*98* said:

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We have a large portion of our country that believes there is nothing wrong with retail theft.

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my town (or maybe it was county) just announced they are giving hefty fines for businesses who don't report theft.

We don't stand for that crap around these parts.

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How would they even enforce that?

I was in self checkout yesterday, and the wheel locked up. But I think it may have been because it thought I could be trying to make a break for it. Several stations were closed, but you couldn't really tell until you got into the area, then I made an unusual movement backing the cart up. The cart suddenly became hard to move, and the worker was like, "did this thing lock up?" and then did something real quickly to reset it.