It is a scourge that begins to cost dearly. In Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) it is between 150 and 200 carts per week that the Carrefour Alma teams try to recover in the surroundings of the supermarket and sometimes even kilometers away.
Borrowed by customers to take their purchases home (but never returned), used by criminals at points of sale to block passage, these carts are scattered everywhere to the chagrin of the manager of this supermarket, he reveals. West of France. “It takes a lot of time and energy” to bring them back to the store, laments Pascal Penin.
The latter specifies that these carts have a unit cost of 200 euros and that 1,100 are essential for the operation of his store.
A six figure investment
Is not a new problem. Our colleagues thus recall that in 2010, the city of Rennes had decided to install, in front of certain buildings, small storage areas for a dozen cars. History to allow easier recovery. But the success wasn’t really there.
Suddenly, Pascal Penin looked for other solutions and found a technological one: a magnetic loop. Specifically, around the supermarket car park a kind of magnetic edge will be deployed.
“When a cart crosses it, two of its wheels automatically lock. Therefore, it can no longer move forward. The only way is to go backwards,” the boss explains. A theoretically effective but expensive solution as it will require “a six figure investment”.
Source: BFM TV
