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IKEA carts if you want to simulate driving over oil. Why are they made with all four wheels turning?
It's easier to maneuver, way easier to turn.
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Painkillers are sold in packs of max 16 tablets in the UK (almost always 500mg for paracetamol, 200mg for ibuprofen). In addition they must be sold in blister packs not bottles, and all shops will only allow you to buy two packets per transaction (mix and match, you can’t have 2x paracetamol and 2x ibuprofen). I believe there are some exceptions for prescriptions. Obviously you can still overdose by going to multiple…
What criteria do you use to evaluate that intervention? Which really means, how do you begin to estimate the actual amount of harm reduction that it provides? Are there lots of cases where someone tried to overdose but was saved by it 'only' being 16 grams of paracetamol?
I can only speak from my experience, but at one point I took all the paracetamol I had (suicidal and pretty drunk, the taste of cheap red wine and paracetamol is... unpleasant to say the least). I ended up fine after a friend forced me to go to the hospital the next day. If I had more tablets around, I would have taken them too. So it likely wouldn't stop someone who planned to kill themselves, however with me anyway not having like 100 tablets around did help due to it being impulsive enough.
It might have been quite a big difference due to how long after the fact I went to the hospital, I took quite a lot but it had done little enough damage that some medicine in my arm over the course of about a day and having to avoid alcohol and paracetamol for a while was enough to fix it.
I imagine a lot of cases are quite similar to mine and it probably did make quite a big difference with me as I only had 2 boxes around and one wasn't completely full.
At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before. Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the br…
I know a business that fix shopping carts. They don't repair at the store, they load up the broken ones onto a truck and take it to the repair shop. The repair shop is a part of large industrial parts store. It's very expensive for the shopping store to repair because it's typically a repair man who has some welding skills that fixes these things. Not sure why other people in this thread would think there is a specif…
At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before. Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the br…
The real story was well worth the read, but I only read it once I twigged what the fan had to do with the story.
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Yea. Look up DM
Not sure why I'm being down voted for this but dm is definitely eu drug store with carts :D
I was thinking you might have been meaning Denmark or something, as it wasn't clear. :)
Didn't down vote you though.
Interesting, I didn't realize the coin locks were only a European thing.
Aldi in the USA also does the coin lock. I don't know why other stores don't do it. Maybe because Aldi is seen as the cheap store and they don't want to be associated with being cheap.
I dislike this system. I don't go to Aldi very often, and I never have change on my person or in the car. So I grab a cardboard box (which Aldi makes available to customers) and fill that up as I walk around the store.
So I buy less than I would if I had a cart.
This kinda sounds like out of touch big city reporting or something… I’ve experienced broken carts, but not often enough to say “man, those things are always broken”
this is an ad. of sorts. you are to be upset at grocers, for not paying for high quality wheels. (go on now, get upset at the right people. this was expensive, relatively.) cnn is news entertainment. > While the rubber wheels cost twice the price of the standard polyurethane ones, Diaz said P&H Casters’ natural rubber wheels can last for about a decade, barring mistreatment from customers. In a busier store environme…
Which seems insane because if you buy replacement suspension parts for cars, the long lasting polyurethane replacements always cost more than the OEM style rubber ones.
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> Getting dragged sideways both wears flat spots in the wheels and it can bend the castors or pop the soft part of the wheel of its rim. This may be an American problem. In the UK and many European countries, shopping carts ("trolleys") have castors on all four wheels; they will quite happily glide sideways. This makes them more maneuverable in the smaller stores, at the cost of being more difficult to control - more…
Ya a few places have these in the states, but as you say the control issues are problematic. The whole, an object in motion stays in motion tends to mean if you're pushing one of these heavy carts and try to turn it will rotate about its own axis rather than make a corner.
To turn a fully castored cart, you apply physics - all you have to do is orient the cart so that is pointed sideways, then push hard. The key is then to maintain the cart pointing 90 degrees to the direction of travel throughout the turn, so that you can oppose centripetal force merely by pushing - no torque required. When the turn is complete, simply stop pushing. The cart will at this point still be oriented sideways of course, but you can correct this easily at your leisure.
Shopping carts are always broken because the store doesn't give damn. For instance in my current city giant Auchan store has literally every single cart busted, unmaintained and completely rusted top to bottom. Similarly sized Carrefour has normal carts, mostly without any issues, just like Ikea and several other medium and small stores. Kaufland even has some fancy new carts, which not only work fine but have some m…
You can blame one middle manager. You can't blame a million middle managers. If all middle managers are doing something wrong, that's a problem of org design. The same is true across the board. One corrupt congressman? Bad apple. 100 of them in a government? Something is wrong with the way the system is set up. One bad teacher? Bad apple. Most teachers are bad? You're looking at some issue with hiring practices, trai…