<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Gregory wrote :<br>
<div class="im">>A lot of supermarkets have a system to stop you taking trolleys/carts home<br>
>(sometimes instead of a charge) so they have a sign like "No carts beyond<br>
>this line, cart will stop suddenly".<br>
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</div>I never see this system in France, we just have to put a coin to detach the<br>
cart from the others.</blockquote></div><div><br></div>In the UK it is an alternative to a coin (which can be annoying if you don't have change). I think there is an interesting trend throughout the years I've grown up of what the latest was. Now I would expect the biggest chains to operate this and smaller chains (or smaller stores) to use the coin system. I believe it works by the wheels locking if they try to go up/down a slope. This also works for flat escalators that allow you to take the trolley to an underground car park or 2nd floor of the store.<div>
<br></div><div>In Canada a new store has the coins but the carts also say it will stop if you go past the yellow line. They haven't painted the yellow line yet (in 8 months) and we actually managed to take it across the street and down a bit before a bump made it tough to push for a second, and then we rode it downhill, all the way home. It made a good laundry cart in our student dorm for a while until someone must have taken it back for the 25 cents.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a><br>
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