When I was 7 years old I got caught shoplifting at a store. I was really scared. Security called my Father to come and get me. In the way home I was really relieved. I was happy and smiling thinking I got away with it. I felt I was smarter than everyone else. When I got home. My Father gave me the SPANKING of my Life. I never stole anything ever again. Smiles.

This just happened to me last night at Price Chopper in Endicott, NY so I had to research it. I paid for the items in my cart and as I'm leaving the store the cart stopped dead in it's tracks! A worker came over and helped me out and I was on my way. The worker said sometimes it just goes off for no reason.

They’re literally telling people how to bypass the system

As you can see paying customers are already having problems with the locking wheels... It’s funny that companies will spend thousands to prevent retail theft only for a thief to trick their technology with some basic around the house shit leaving these new measures to do nothing but irritate the rest of us customers...

Forcing ordinary clerks to act as security guards to protect the affluents profits.

This system is awful. My wife went to Meijer to shop but decided she would not purchase anything because our 2 year old was being fussy. On her way out, the cart locked up on her and someone came over to inspect the cart and asked her what she purchased. She felt humiliated and embarrassed bc she thought the were accusing her of stealing. I was furious and being that protective spouse, drove to Meijers to find out why they did that. It’s not a one size fits all system. Now my wife will not shop at Meijers because of being embarrassed

Safeway just started doing this crap today when I was picking up a Doordash order. I told the security guard I am not picking up from them if they are doing this crap. Target the thieves not everyday shoppers and Doordash drivers.

This is a thing in Australia too as they always lock when they reach the end of a shopping centre.

What if you just want to return the empty cart to the vestible?

Found this video after finding a cart with a warning about this inside my apartment building lmao, thought it was meant to prevent carts from being stolen

The ones at Kroger have failed too many times for me. So I now drag them to my car. Don’t make me as a shopper walk into a cart because your product fails way too often

I would bring my own cart lol

They dont work right. Mine locked up walking out the exit door of kroger at high st and e n broadway ave in columbus ohio. Staff unlocked with a radar type gun, so i could get to my car in the kroger parking lot. This is going to be a disaster!

What if you walk past the self check-out line? Doesn't it deactivate?

We a just got this at the Kroger I work at. It’s not set up yet but the wheels are on the carts and working only by using the handheld thing. I don’t think it’s going to work out well.

You can’t stop them so what’s the point?

After I paid in self checkout and left the store, the wheels locked up and the store personnel came out and forcefully wrested my cart from me (I gave up not wanting anyone to get hurt). They demanded to check my receipt, which I had no obligation to show them. I told them to check the cameras. They wouldn't. They also didn't call the police. I had to. The police gave them a nice education about this and I left with my items. The store in this video obviously handles these malfunctions better than the shitshow store I was shopping at.

Its not so much the cart but the stuff inside. If you didn't pass through the checkout lane and a deactivator there the wheels lock up at the door. It helps prevent people from loading a cart up and just running out the door.

I remember 15+ years ago the transit bus used to pull into the Fred Meyer parking lot in Kennewick, WA, I thought it was nice for the elderly and the disabled to be able to not walk very far to do their shopping.

Great idea

My cart locked up when I fully payed for my foil with reciept to prove it. At a kingsooper in Colorado

Solution to that. Bring your own shopping cart. Enjoy thieving again.

Ross & a few Dollar Tree's have also put theft deterrents on their carts. In some places you can't even take the cart outside of the store. Idk who's brilliant idea it was to make it so we can't get carts FULL of heavy bags out to our cars but they obviously didn't think it through. I use to fill my cart but now limit my purchases to what I can physically carry. It's kind of a lose lose for the customers & the store as well because they're not selling as much & we have to carry our things. Many times that means leaving some of our items behind & making 2 or 3 trips back & forth to the car carrying heavy items all the while worrying about someone stealing the things we had to leave behind & carry in seperate trips. I had this happen at a dollar tree in Seattle. I live with spinal pain & let's just say carrying a cart load of items & making numerous trips all the while worrying someone's going to steal the things you had to leave behind for a 2nd or 3rd trip is a real pain in the butt. I don't shop in either of those stores near as much as I use too for that reason. I feel bad for these shoppers, many might look fine but could also have unseen medical issues & are outside in the cold struggling with a darn shopping cart. If my cart was full of heavy items & the wheels locked up not allowing me to get to my car I'd be very frustrated. I know the carts are expensive & they get stolen even more now as the homeless population grows & I understand why a few might think this is a good idea but it's really not helping us or the store. Either the store's losing money buying expensive carts or they'll lose it in theft. I have a feeling it might be cheaper in the long run to let the homeless have the older carts then they won't have the need to steal or borrow them.

They need to do that at my store

I would love to see security devices that would prevent carts from being removed from the parking lot. It's become prevalent for people to take carts home. If the cart would sut down at the lot perimeter, that would take care of many more.

How about we get laws that actually punish shoplifters.

So that's what those green strobes are at the doors are for! I heard the gentex alarm.

Those arent new, which mean someone can turn them off, so happened at Walmart. They turn on the wheels in cat food. So what happens when the store is told old to update. You close it down.

What brand is this

I had one lock up on me... I wan't too happy... and yes I payed.. Also the locking wheel was not the same size.

Cool, what if somebody uses cart from different company?!

How can we get that employee to work at our store. She such a happy go lucky chick..

I saw one lock up on a lady that jad just walked out of paying at the register

Yup everything is unfree

new technology...locking carts. They used these in calgary back in the 80's, people would walk off with the carts. I did that in 82, before I had a car. I took the cart off the lot and went two blocks to get groceries home. However....I took the cart back. In the middle of winter. I would see a guy come around the alley in a truck picking up carts that were taken. he had a full load.

All new generation of hackers will now have a new problem to solve

Th@ is why when I go shopping, I bring my own shopping cart.

I wonder if this is the same thing that's used on escalators. I noticed that the wheels of some trollies lock when entering an escalator and unlock after. Or maybe it's just in the design of the wheel.

They now put that in the handicapped mart carts, guess those were getting stolen too.

If the cart gets stopped couldn't thieves grab their stolen items out the cart. 😅(Im not going to do that but its just a possibility ya know).

Couldn't you pay for a few things and pull a u turn and start you're free shopping and then go out the door.

Bring back the service of someone helping you to your car. No loss of products or property.

Smart

Soo… the tech doesn’t actually recognize and scan each and every item, it just recognizes if the cart has gone to a checkout. I mean… at least that’s SOMETHING.

I wish they do that in Bellingham Washington

Unfortunately we are just gonna have to go back to the days before the piggly wiggly and have a clerk hand us all of our goods

You cant steal thousands of dollars in groceries. More like hundreds but not thousands

I've seen people drive off with the motorized carts. People just don't give a crap anymore. If they want it they will take it.

This is incredibly annoying and embarrassing. The Ingles grocery store added this to their carts. We didn't buy anything and were being nice taking the cart back front where we got it, they have a stupid little boot on the wheel that pops open locking up the wheel and sounding a store alarm. I guess next time we just leave the cart where everyone walks.

Well if we have people that come back to work with us and they have a cart that gets locked up have them unlock it if they have a buggy go off that happened to my friend Dawson before and he had to unlock the buggy himself😂

I'd like to see these carts work

Shop lifters don't use carts they put things in their pockets and leave

*KOIN 666!!!*

This system is crap. Too many paying customers get stopped and harassed. Knowing the carts lockup, why wouldn't a thief just leave the cart inside the store, and carry the 5 or 6 packages of sirloin steaks out the door. This system is ridiculous.

2:06 Holy CRAP! What happened to her eyebrows?!? They’re like… too far up and dark lol. Jesus woman! 😅

If you are accused of shopping lifting, ie,'may I see your receipt?', you can sue them and win. Same with these carts, if it stops you for any reason after you have paid, sue them.

How you not gonna notice someone walking out with a trolley load of shopping without paying in the first place?

What are the 13%s gonna do?

This is such a stupid invention how am I supposed to steal now

*I UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU HAVE SHOPLIFTED, BUT THIS IS GOING TOO FAR NOW!*

Mexicans can’t take our wagons no more ha!

You know something if nobody shoplifted prices would go down, the employees would be paid better and much happier, the store would be better staffed 😮

If you are caught shoplifting, off with a finger. Peeling off your fingernail would be the 1st offense. If it happens a 2nd time, goodbye finger.

Why don't they just check everyone's recipes at the doors for pity sake?! They would save so much money and prevent nearly ALL theft. 🤦

I stopped shopping at Fred Meyer because I can't reach the bus stop anymore without the cart locking up. And I'm not going to spend $150 at a grocery to have to drag 100 lbs. of food a quarter mile to the nearest bus stop because Fred Meyer won't allow the bus to put a stop in front of their store and they have android carts that lock before you can reach the station. This is why Walmart is burying smaller competitors.

Black people and mexicans have met their match