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Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by TillE »

dtgriscom wrote: post #30
freddie_mercury wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most countries have laws limiting the size of paracetamol & aspirin bottles to reduce overdoses & suicides. The UK passed a law in 1998 about it and saw suicides from overdoses drop 21% and liver transplants from paracetamol poisoning drop 66%. "Numbers of tablets per pack of paracetamol and salicylates decreased markedly in the year after the change in legislation on 16 September 1998. The annual number of deaths fr…

What are the limits? (Asked as a US guy who buys the 500 x 500mg bottles at BJ's.)

Not sure about the UK, but in Europe typically pills are sold as blister packs. I don't think there's a limit per se, you can still buy a box of 50 at least.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by tonymet »

I'm sure I'm weird but I find pushing shopping carts around to be degrading and clumsy. If I must use a cart, I usually park it somewhere discreet and scramble around the store clasping items until my arms are overloaded and then I deposit them in the cart. This allows me to be nimble and dodge between sloths who are burdened shuffling around squealy carts from bin to bin.

It's a greasy, screechy trash bin-walker hybrid full of food.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by tonymet »

tekla wrote: post #19
RecycledEle wrote: post #2

The percentage of shopping carts that are broken tells you about the character of the local population. The article's byline credits Eva Rothenberg, whose LinkedIn lists her as living in New York City. There must be horrible people there. Here in Waxahachie, TX, there are almost no broken shopping carts, and people help when there is a broken cart.

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it's not uniformly distributed.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by jackson1way »

justinclift wrote: post #4

> Grocery store carts are more likely to have carts with wonky wheels than ... drugstores Do countries other than the US have shopping carts in their "drug stores"?

In Germany you have something close to „drug stores in the US“ but minus the pharmacy. For example: dm, Müller, Rossmann. The bigger ones (especially dm) actually always have shopping carts. It‘s very common for people to buy large things in these stores, like toilet paper, baby diapers etc. which can easily fill a shopping cart.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by chupchap »

al_borland wrote: post #11
justinclift wrote: post #4

> Grocery store carts are more likely to have carts with wonky wheels than ... drugstores Do countries other than the US have shopping carts in their "drug stores"?

For those outside of the US looking to answer, here is some context from the US. “Drug stores” in the US double as convenience stores. There is a pharmacy in the back along with over the counter medications, but they also sell cosmetics, basic prepackaged food, toys, alcohol, magazines, greeting cards, and other such things. It’s not like Americans are buying carts full of drugs. I also think drug stores generally ha…

> alcohol

Please tell me it's not the drinking kind?

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

chupchap wrote: post #46
al_borland wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those outside of the US looking to answer, here is some context from the US. “Drug stores” in the US double as convenience stores. There is a pharmacy in the back along with over the counter medications, but they also sell cosmetics, basic prepackaged food, toys, alcohol, magazines, greeting cards, and other such things. It’s not like Americans are buying carts full of drugs. I also think drug stores generally ha…

> alcohol Please tell me it's not the drinking kind?

It is a *drug* store.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by JoyfulTurkey »

chupchap wrote: post #46
al_borland wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those outside of the US looking to answer, here is some context from the US. “Drug stores” in the US double as convenience stores. There is a pharmacy in the back along with over the counter medications, but they also sell cosmetics, basic prepackaged food, toys, alcohol, magazines, greeting cards, and other such things. It’s not like Americans are buying carts full of drugs. I also think drug stores generally ha…

> alcohol Please tell me it's not the drinking kind?

Where I am (Ohio, USA), drug stores like CVS/Wallgreens sell beer, wine.

Hard liquor over a certain alcohol percent is only available at a state liquor agency.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by xboxnolifes »

chupchap wrote: post #46
al_borland wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those outside of the US looking to answer, here is some context from the US. “Drug stores” in the US double as convenience stores. There is a pharmacy in the back along with over the counter medications, but they also sell cosmetics, basic prepackaged food, toys, alcohol, magazines, greeting cards, and other such things. It’s not like Americans are buying carts full of drugs. I also think drug stores generally ha…

> alcohol Please tell me it's not the drinking kind?

Like they said, it doubles as a convenience store. In the states where convenience stores can sell alcohol (most of them), yes.

Re: Why are shopping carts always broken?

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Post by jbandela1 »

blinkingled wrote: post #27

Not Costco's - have been to many over the years and they have some of the best maintained, good quality carts you don't mind dragging across their gigantic parking lot.

Also Publix tends to have pretty nicely maintained shopping carts. Part of the reason might be that they provide complimentary cart service where someone will push the cart out to your car and help load the groceries.
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