Mark Gibson wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:

I figure if they charge me $1.00 to "lease" a shopping cart, I might
as well keep it. The local Walmart doen't seem to care much when I
roll a shopping cart to where I live across the street. They just
send a cart person to pick them up every so often.

Don't you get your coin back when you return the trolley, as we do?

I'd far rather have a coin-operated trolley than a wheel-lock one, as
you can sometimes take them home, empty them, and then take them back
(or bribe a passing child with the coin).
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Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
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