NTUC Fairprice: Return trollies, please

[metalslug]

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_381768.html

Return trollies, please
Problem persists despite the $1 deposit system; FairPrice starts campaign
By Lim Wei Chean

Trolleys found abandoned in various parts of Toa Payoh estate. NTUC FairPrice alone reports about 70 missing trolleys a month. -- ST PHOTOS: ALPHONSUS CHERN

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DESPITE the $1 deposit on trolleys, many supermarkets are still losing tens of thousands of dollars every month, with shoppers failing to return them.
To prevent more from going on 'walkabouts', one supermarket chain is starting a public education campaign to remind shoppers to return their trolleys.

Another is getting its security officers to keep a closer eye on trolley abuse and to issue verbal warnings to errant users.

On Monday, NTUC FairPrice started posting notices at more than 80 of its outlets to remind customers to return their trolleys to 'appropriate locations' after use. In-store announcements also echo the message.

Its head of corporate communications, Ms Angela Soo, said about 70 trolleys go missing each month.

The problem has persisted despite a $1 deposit system put in place about 10 years ago, added Ms Soo.

The same problem plagues the Giant Hypermarket chain, where about 100 trolleys go missing each month from its eight outlets, its spokesman said.

It is a constant bugbear for the chain, which is popular with people making budget and bulk purchases.

To counter the problem, it hires an external company to retrieve trolleys from the neighbourhoods near the various outlets. But this initiative, started in 2000, has had minimal effect.

Recently, its security officers also began keeping an eye on the movements of trolleys around the store.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[sniper007]

This is damn common in Sydney. There's this particular ethnic group (you're not alone, Singapore!) that LOVES to push the trolleys all the way back to the apartments and just leave them anywhere. The supermarkets have to send out people to pick those trolleys back. It's still not so bad if the trolleys are left by the roadside, but some even push them back INTO their apartments. I've even seen them using the trolleys when they're moving house!

 

[god_zeus]

my friend is working at the toa payoh ntuc supermarket
as a rrolley collector
every evening he will walk around the central to collect them
go to the HDB carpark 3 floors down to find them

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_381768.html

Return trollies, please
Problem persists despite the $1 deposit system; FairPrice starts campaign
By Lim Wei Chean

Trolleys found abandoned in various parts of Toa Payoh estate. NTUC FairPrice alone reports about 70 missing trolleys a month. -- ST PHOTOS: ALPHONSUS CHERN

View more photos

DESPITE the $1 deposit on trolleys, many supermarkets are still losing tens of thousands of dollars every month, with shoppers failing to return them.
To prevent more from going on 'walkabouts', one supermarket chain is starting a public education campaign to remind shoppers to return their trolleys.

Another is getting its security officers to keep a closer eye on trolley abuse and to issue verbal warnings to errant users.

On Monday, NTUC FairPrice started posting notices at more than 80 of its outlets to remind customers to return their trolleys to 'appropriate locations' after use. In-store announcements also echo the message.

Its head of corporate communications, Ms Angela Soo, said about 70 trolleys go missing each month.

The problem has persisted despite a $1 deposit system put in place about 10 years ago, added Ms Soo.

The same problem plagues the Giant Hypermarket chain, where about 100 trolleys go missing each month from its eight outlets, its spokesman said.

It is a constant bugbear for the chain, which is popular with people making budget and bulk purchases.

To counter the problem, it hires an external company to retrieve trolleys from the neighbourhoods near the various outlets. But this initiative, started in 2000, has had minimal effect.

Recently, its security officers also began keeping an eye on the movements of trolleys around the store.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[i_am_belle]

This is damn common in Sydney. There's this particular ethnic group (you're not alone, Singapore!) that LOVES to push the trolleys all the way back to the apartments and just leave them anywhere. The supermarkets have to send out people to pick those trolleys back. It's still not so bad if the trolleys are left by the roadside, but some even push them back INTO their apartments. I've even seen them using the trolleys when they're moving house!

indians ? there're alot indians in australia i know ...
paki ?
mexicans ?
jew ?
the angmos themselves ?

*scratch head*

 

[Alamaking]

dun want leh......

 

[sniper007]

Don't think I can tell Indians and Pakistanis apart, unless they're in their traditional costumes. So, I shall just call them "South Asians"

 

[po2wq]

ah ntuc ...

provide household delivery la ...

 

[shelltox]

Next time you want trolley, you hand over your ic first

 

[sta1100]

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_381768.html

Return trollies, please
Problem persists despite the $1 deposit system; FairPrice starts campaign
By Lim Wei Chean

Trolleys found abandoned in various parts of Toa Payoh estate. NTUC FairPrice alone reports about 70 missing trolleys a month. -- ST PHOTOS: ALPHONSUS CHERN

View more photos

DESPITE the $1 deposit on trolleys, many supermarkets are still losing tens of thousands of dollars every month, with shoppers failing to return them.
To prevent more from going on 'walkabouts', one supermarket chain is starting a public education campaign to remind shoppers to return their trolleys.

Another is getting its security officers to keep a closer eye on trolley abuse and to issue verbal warnings to errant users.

On Monday, NTUC FairPrice started posting notices at more than 80 of its outlets to remind customers to return their trolleys to 'appropriate locations' after use. In-store announcements also echo the message.

Its head of corporate communications, Ms Angela Soo, said about 70 trolleys go missing each month.

The problem has persisted despite a $1 deposit system put in place about 10 years ago, added Ms Soo.

The same problem plagues the Giant Hypermarket chain, where about 100 trolleys go missing each month from its eight outlets, its spokesman said.

It is a constant bugbear for the chain, which is popular with people making budget and bulk purchases.

To counter the problem, it hires an external company to retrieve trolleys from the neighbourhoods near the various outlets. But this initiative, started in 2000, has had minimal effect.

Recently, its security officers also began keeping an eye on the movements of trolleys around the store.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

It OK NTUC very rich $$$ what is 70 trolleys to them, can take from us bus fare increse but don't want to lower when ild price does down, now lost trollys KPKB. Berry GOOD

 

[SamuelStalin]

Next time you want trolley, you hand over your ic first

Photocopy of both sides also can.

 

[besotted]

Poor upbringing

 

[singveld]

This is damn common in Sydney. There's this particular ethnic group (you're not alone, Singapore!) that LOVES to push the trolleys all the way back to the apartments and just leave them anywhere. The supermarkets have to send out people to pick those trolleys back. It's still not so bad if the trolleys are left by the roadside, but some even push them back INTO their apartments. I've even seen them using the trolleys when they're moving house!

are they chinese ???

african put on their head.

ah neh carry a sack.

must be chinese.

 

[poore]

1 thing u all may not kn.....

if u observe ....u will notice all these trolleys...the 1-dollar coin is gone.....

there are many such trolleys in my neighborhood...

times are bad

 

[Watchman]

Don't think I can tell Indians and Pakistanis apart, unless they're in their traditional costumes. So, I shall just call them "South Asians"

Well you can certainly tell them apart !

The better looking ones are from eating tomatoes ! The others got their look from eating decades of tapioca !

 

[Char_Azn]

Put a GPS tracking device on all trolleys

 

[johnny333]

This is damn common in Sydney. There's this particular ethnic group (you're not alone, Singapore!) that LOVES to push the trolleys all the way back to the apartments and just leave them anywhere..........

This is common everywhere lah, especially in neighbourhood supermarkets. Very common in Spore because of the high cost of owning a car Also got parking fees & ERP :p

Who wants to carry heavy groceries if they have a trolley handy