Oi, big nose, do you need a trolley?
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100NT? Oh, you’re a real tight fucker, aren’t you?
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We used to buy the shopping trolleys at UK supermarkets for a quid a piece. Wouldn’t work here. Sidewalks are horrible, with barely enough space for a human between all the scooters, transformer boxes and other obstacles. Better to just carry your groceries or to grab a cab home.
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Many of the Supermarkets in Australia now have a wheel locking device on the trolley that is triggered by passing through a beam on exiting the complex, thus stopping further travel.
Public housing here is not what you might expect from experiences in the West. Rather, in Taiwan it’s considered a desirable bargain, one that people in the middle class would not shun.
I do, but then again I live right next to an RT-Mart, and about 0.5km from Carrefour.
Also no pissed people in 24h Tesco trying to get scotch eggs at 3am, then deciding it’s easier to push their new find the traffic cone home in a trolly than carry him.
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What’s kinda hilarious is that I swear on The Bible, my life, and my late father’s grave that halfway through my weekend catch-up here on Forumosa, I was prepared to say that the furthest I’ve remembered seeing a shopping cart (or trolley as you put it) was out front of the local RT-Mart around the corner from me, but I was voluntold to accompany my mom to shop for a replacement stove, so then I saw this and can’t help but to think of this thread 
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I think I have seen 2 stolen in my life here as well. Not a thing
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Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I just think Taiwanese homeless population have enough self respect to buy their own trolley if they need one. They seem to have enough self respect to not litter all over the places they live. The pictures and videos of homeless camps I’ve seen in “the west” are completely different.
Also shopping trolley have limited use because you can’t actually hold a lot on one. Those flat bed carts work better for long distance carting IMO and that is what I see the most.
You can buy these yourself by the way. It won’t have store marking on it obviously.
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True but it doesnt stop people, ive seen thoses trolleys over an hour from a supermarket, they find a way to still push them i guess, then when the high school kids get out at least 1 of them will take a trolley and play with it then throw in in the river when done.
Why do that, when you can just push it to a recycler who will pay you a few bucks for it (but then that transaction will be recorded when the cops come looking).
Ahh huh… I knew it, the chavs here take trolleys lol. Everyone saying they dont must be part of the secret anti trolley organization.
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True…have to get the cops in on it lol
You’re going to get about 200nt for a cart anyways. No idea what’s the rate for scrap metal in the “west” but in Taiwan you’d have to have an entire truck full of materials and you’ll get maybe 10,000nt for about a ton of materials. That kind of bribe isn’t going to impress any cops. This is why nobody in Taiwan steals carts.