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Over here in the UK, pretty much every cart (trolley) has fully functioning wheels... The only exception to that is wheels that auto-lock to stop you stealing the cart when they cross over the property line of the shop (and they then require manual unlocking). I suspect US cart designs are just bad...
> 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"?
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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.)
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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.)
Obviously you can still overdose by going to multiple stores and popping them all out of the blister packs but it puts enough of a barrier in that you have to be more determined (and more knowledgeable about what amount will actually kill you). Apparently it works.
Over here in the UK, pretty much every cart (trolley) has fully functioning wheels... The only exception to that is wheels that auto-lock to stop you stealing the cart when they cross over the property line of the shop (and they then require manual unlocking). I suspect US cart designs are just bad...
And it's very rare to have to put a coin in a trolley as the article asserts. It's not 1999 any more.
Over here in the UK, pretty much every cart (trolley) has fully functioning wheels... The only exception to that is wheels that auto-lock to stop you stealing the cart when they cross over the property line of the shop (and they then require manual unlocking). I suspect US cart designs are just bad...
The last three trollies I've used all had sticking wheels. Waitrose and Tesco. And many times before. And I regularly have the same problem in France.
But yes, auto locking wheels are universally worse.
Over here in the UK, pretty much every cart (trolley) has fully functioning wheels... The only exception to that is wheels that auto-lock to stop you stealing the cart when they cross over the property line of the shop (and they then require manual unlocking). I suspect US cart designs are just bad...
And it's very rare to have to put a coin in a trolley as the article asserts. It's not 1999 any more.
Are those coin locks really to protect the carts from the elements, or because Aldi doesn’t want to pay someone to haul them back and forth.
Over here in the UK, pretty much every cart (trolley) has fully functioning wheels... The only exception to that is wheels that auto-lock to stop you stealing the cart when they cross over the property line of the shop (and they then require manual unlocking). I suspect US cart designs are just bad...
And it's very rare to have to put a coin in a trolley as the article asserts. It's not 1999 any more.
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What are the limits? (Asked as a US guy who buys the 500 x 500mg bottles at BJ's.)
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…
You can essentially forget the maximum pill numbers for paracetamol/ibuprofen when it comes to prescriptions in the UK. Doctors can prescribe hundreds of either pill to be given to a patient at once (eg if someone is prescribed to take 8 a day and they get their meds monthly, as is the case with one paracetamol recipient I know, the pharmacy gives him multiple 100x 500mg paracetamol boxes each month.)
(To be clear, "given to them at once" as in dispensing the pills, not giving to take all at once!)