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This article misses a very big reason. It's a scheduling type problem. They rarely have good systems in place to deal with taking bad trollies out of service, s
by theginger 3y ago
This article misses a very big reason.
It's a scheduling type problem. They rarely have good systems in place to deal with taking bad trollies out of service, so they stay in service and sit at the front of the stack, because some people notice and reject the trolley but they generally find their way back onto the stack. If you always take the first trolley of the stack and regularly find it is busted it is probably because you are often taking other people's rejected trollies
- milliams 3y agoAt my local there's often a few columns of trolleys next to each other. I always go for the column with the fewest trolleys as I assume that the trolley sitting at the head of the longest column is likely to have an issue.
- dmarto 3y agoI do the same, but for a different reason. In my mind, they are less accessible, as the end of the line usually has metal guardrails, thus leaving the closer and easier-to-reach carts for other people. On the other hand, in my area, I have never seen a broken cart, perhaps because they require coins to operate.
- vladvasiliu 3y agoIn my area they also require coins, yet they're often busted in some way. I think the root of the issue is the people who use them, coins or not.
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- aqfamnzc 3y agoI'm enjoying learning about shopping cart / trolley-based game theory. Haha
- bombcar 3y agoIt depends on how they’re loaded into the queue - some are back loaded “fifo” from an employee door, others are “lifo” from the customer side. FIFO is more likely to keep pushing the bad one to the front, whereas lifo will eventually have the far carts be the bad ones. But I’ve rarely if ever had a bad cart so maybe this is an issue somewhere else. It is amazing to realize that at about $200-400 a pop, the average Walmart has something like a quarter million dollars worth of carts.