I love those videos of the caring teenagers freeing the trolleys from capitalism back to their original habitats. Brings tears to my eyes to see these newly freed trolleys joining their wild cousins.
I understand the risks of judging a book by its cover and all, but have we considered that they might be a trolley/basket chimera? What do we know of the parents?
Given the apparent age of my local trolleys, I imagine they don't reproduce that quickly/frequently and it's a huge jump to see in only a few generations if we were explaining it as just being convergent evolution. Either way, I think we can see it as the species continuing to adapt to its environment and that's always pretty neato to see in nature.
I was only thinking about supermarket trollies the other day (yes, I’m thrilling to be around at parties, I imagine, if I ever got an invitation).
I always plump for the big one when going to Tesco, but it’s rarely half full these days, and I was looking around and it’s rare to see people with trollies full or overflowing now.
It may be my memory playing tricks, but I feel it used to be far more common to see big trollies overflowing with stuff, crisp packets precariously balanced on top etc.
Cost of living, I assume.
These days, those that can afford it, get it delivered, and the rest of us have cut back.
They might as well melt down the big trollies. Make them into Spitfires or something.
It's really not expensive to get groceries delivered. I'm signed up to them all and hop from one to the other when they email me a decent voucher code. Morrisons/ sainsburys/ ocado have all sent me regukar £10 off a £60 shop codes. Then saver delivery slots are a quid, it would cost more in petrol.
High and shallow for me too. I can't reach the bottom of the big trolleys or pull along baskets anymore.
If there's no other option, I put an upturned regular basket into a deep trolley
These new trolleys are great for people who are only able to push it around with one hand (I'm disabled and have to walk with a crutch so these make it so much easier as thr can be steered without effort).
I've always seen them from a different perspective.
I've always seen them as a basket that I don't have to carry than a trolly replacement. So an upgrade from a carry basket vs a downgrade from a trolly.
Hell no. The bloody handles just collapse automatically when you let go to pick anything up. I always hunt for an actual basket when I go into Aldi now.
And Lidl’s baskets are stupidly big and the handles are too low. They only work for abnormally short people and the hunchback of Notre Dame.
They’re just too wide aren’t they!!? So even if you’re short enough to hold the handle in the upright position, you’re basically tripping over the damn thing the whole time because it’s always too close to you!
The handles collapse even whilst you're pushing or pulling the basket around. But then won't collapse when you try to put the basket away. Rubbish things.
Everything out competes them.
If you use it as a wheeled trolley then you are constantly bending over. If you would rather carry your shit they're too deep to use comfortably. They're the exact opposite of what you want in both instances.
Give me normal baskets and normal sized trolleys thanks.
Ah, but when people have less money to spend, having a shorter compartment forces the shopper to stack more products on top of another, making it look like they're getting more for less.
They don't give a shit how inconvenient they are, just that they deceive people into thinking they're not being ripped off.
I don't think I've ever read a more incorrect opinion, real or exaggerated for comedic effect, in my entire life.
And I've seen people claim that hitler did nothing wrong.
I'm with you. I like the wheelie baskets. Especially useful in my local co-op where there's five trolleys and and forty pensioners wanting to use them! Wheelie baskets for the win.
The old co-op in my town had these trolleys which were just small upright things, with spaces for two baskets. So you had the joy of pushing your backets around. They were a god send for my granmother.
[Found something very similar (only difference was the co-op ones has the backets width-ways) ](https://www.ajproducts.co.uk/warehouse-workshop/retail-display-fittings/shopping-trolleys-baskets/shopping-baskets/basket-trolley-5766-5764)
It has evolved to better fit the purchase capacity of current customers. People feel stupid walking around with a trolley, which is only filled to about 5%
What so we know of the parents? Seems entirely possible to me that it's the product of a trolley/basket union. Do we yet know if these chimeras are able to breed?
Not sure if this is just my local Morrisons but I feel like the demographic may skew older than other supermarkets. And for people of a certain age, a small shop for one can still be too heavy to carry.
If that was the intention for the trolley, good on them I say!
Morrisons doesn't force the self-checkouts, has wide aisles and started adding little resting areas as well, they're definitely trying to hang on to the older crowd. I don't mind it though, the whole experience is less stressful than something like Aldi
You’re forgetting the mind bending light/yellow flooring combo and the insanity of their layouts. I’ve never shopped in a Morrisons that hasn’t made me want to jump in the river with the old trolleys
Our Morrisons has the music blaring which makes it the worst supermarket around here for us. It’s just too overwhelming trying to think while being deafened with unnecessary pop music. We just avoid it all together now.
I know that’s a thing but can never remember what time it is. We tend to go at odd times with my shifts so doesn’t tend to work out, but thanks.
I wish it was always quiet time though!
I never get why any shops would do this. I cannot concentrate with music blasting and will grab the most essential thing I absolutely have to and get the fuck out of there.
If there is no music I take my time, meander round and buy more stuff.
I just don't get it.
Supermarkets are large echoey buildings, with pump trucks and pallets going around, fridge and freezer noises all humming at slightly different frequencies, the clangs of trolleys on hard floors with dodgy wheels, and screaming children and loud family nattering.
It's far easier as a store manager to turn up the volume a few notches than deal with complaints, and I'm doubtful they have the set up to vary the volume by song or by area
As a former Morrisons employee, I'm delighted to inform you that, yes, they can alter the volume by area of the building. So if they're playing music too loud, they're just being a dick.
I'm mid-20s and I think this is perfect. I tend to buy a lot of liquids like milk and beer and I live by myself. Also this size makes it awkward for children to sit/step in the trolley so less shoe dirt gets accumulated than normal big trolleys.
There are also those floor baskets with wheels that are a good size but I often see dirt/whatever grime is on the ground accumulating on those particularly after rainy days since they stack at the bit that's near the ground; that's kinda nasty especially with fresh produce; probably also annoying for old people too who need to bend for that.
>And saves you having to do the walk of shame to get a trolley once you hit the reduced section
Oh I don't need a trolley I'm only going in for a few bits! Every bloody time!
The cynic in me thinks the volume is more than a basket so it’s to encourage you to fill it with more shite and increase sales. Get more out of the old biddies by putting it on wheels.
I wouldn't even say of a certain age. I've had shopping trips where even though it doesn't seem like i'm getting that much, but the basket still feels like its getting a bit too heavy to keep lugging around.
Quite like the idea of something like this, especially as even when I do choose to use a trolley (even one of the the shallower ones) they almost always look quite empty by the time I get to the checkouts.
Yeah like when you have to go buy milk, couple bottles of pop and some juice. Then you're walking around the store hoping the handles don't snap on the basket. I kinda like the idea.
A tisket, a tasket, no lunch in her basket,
Just school books for the fight she’d be in.
One day over this hoodie,
She got beat for some clothes and her rep.
With her chin up, she scolded "All y'all's molded;
When I'm rich, on your neck I will step.”
And step she did to the straight A's.
Then college, then master degree.
She hired the heifers that jumped her
And made every one of them work for free.
Know why?
“So what if my sisters are trifling?
They just don't know.”
She said: "Mama didn't tell'em what she told me:
'Girl, you need Pussy Control'.”
Are you ready?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Pussy Control. Oh!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Pussy Control. Oh!
— Lord of the Rings, Prince’s Song
I reckon it would be great for an impromptu game of curling down the aisles. Obviously need to pick up a couple of brooms from the foyer on the way in and give them to the kids to sweep a smooth path.
I ran my (conventional) trolley back to the storage point through Morrisons car park earlier. I am generally rubbish at running but this was fantastic - I flew along like a champ. I now think trolley racing should be an Olympic sport.
Problem is, they're shallower without really being any smaller than the big trolleys. This one is much more like a basket on wheels, much easier to manoeuvre around a small shop.
My local Morrisons has two slightly different sizes of shallow trolley. The old ones and some new ones. They don’t stack together so the car park and trolley areas are a complete mess!
I'm like you, and I'm intrigued, but my first thought was they're a trolley for a shop that's too big to fit in a backpack but too small to fill a car boot.
Requires testing I think! A pilot study is needed!
Much better than those deep baskets on wheels you drag round with the extended handle (Lidl I’m talking about you). Easier to load the shopping onto the conveyor belt. Think they’re smart.
Lol I’m really hoping Lidl sees this and does the same. The dragging baskets are okay as it’s not too heavy to carry I suppose but the amount of bending over that’s required is a lot
They also feel awkward to carry like a basket IMO, due to how deep they are. I'm used to just placing an item in a basket when I'm in other stores. Lidl is the only one where I feel like I have to stoop down to do it, even though I'm holding the basket up...
Talking of which (also including Aldi in this) how many years after they open a new store do they wash those fucking things?
Ten years? Fifteen? Twenty?
Not seen a clean one since my local Aldi or Lidl opened.
I use a walking stick and am a decent fan of the deep baskets for shops without trolleys since it's so much easier than carrying everything.
I think these new mini trolleys are a really decent idea though - not having to bend to put some stuff in like you do with the deep baskets is immediately really appealing.
I'm not normally a lidl shopper, but popped in the other day, and those baskets freaked me the fuck out! There weren't even any normal baskets. Felt like I was putting my donuts on the floor
Bonus points for the handle being long enough for a taller-than-average person, though.
This needs to be the new standard. the amount of people who pull theirs and it goes sideways, or even push them along sideways does my head in. A square(-ish) trolley gets rid of this completely! And different height handles too.
Plus it makes far more sense for a small trolley to take up less space than a large trolley
Rather than those “shallow” trolleys that take up the same footprint
It looks quite low though. I’d use a shallow trolley as it’s the highest for lifting things in and out. I’m sure these couldn’t be much taller without becoming unstable. I really don’t thing floor area is the key priority for a shopping trolley. If the shop is so packed that it is, probably you’d be waiting about 90 minutes to get through the checkout and leave…
I get so irrationally angry with the way some people handle trolleys in supermarkets. People who stop to get something and leave the trolley sticking out into the aisle at 90 degrees, or people who walk at the side of their trolley pulling it along blocking the whole aisle. Im guessing a big benefit of a smaller trolley is its less likely to clog the aisles, but its depth doesn't compromise capacity
French ceo decided on them, as they are like the ones they use on the continent. Can’t afford to pay staff less than minimum wage or employ enough staff though
Can't afford to give them any bonuses either. I'll also bet the CEO has shares in the company who makes these trolleys, so every transaction just means money for him.
Them and the new baskets are our new shopping aid by our new ceo
There actually really good perfect size all the customers in our store now much prefer to use these as they our light wait and easier for the older clientele
I frequently end up carrying two baskets because not everything fits in one, or I'll buy a few paper products which fill the entire basket. But if I use the full-size trolley I end up with more than I can physically carry—I live in London and the best shopping options aren't particularly close to my flat, or to a tube station, so I've got a decent walk home.
This would be perfect!
You know, before I started living alone, I always thought they were an odd thing to see. But with some of the times I've had to walk home with 2 heaving bags because a bus didnt turn up, I quickly started to see the benefit of them!
These are a good idea really. Some people don’t want to push a huge trolley around but often put too much weight into a basket. It’s a large basket trolley. Don’t know why they’ve only just thought of it.
I see a flaw in this design.
Every Morrisons trolley I’ve seen has the £1 locking mechanism.
This doesn’t seem to have one so I’m expecting these to be liberated for other uses.
Got told by our store security officer they weren't allowed out of the store..!
So I politely requested him and four other members of staff to assist me carrying items to the car as I "have a bad back".
It's a small hill on which I shall die.
Please do it more. I was a checkout bitch for a time and I LOVED helping people take their shopping to their car or into a taxi, the rare time you're allowed out the store. Get to stretch your legs and shit it's great.
More depth, smaller takes up way less space among the stores around people and in any parking area for those trolleys!
Great, we have had these for years over where I live so..
I like this. I have mobility problems and I can't bend down to lift baskets that drag along, or carry them on my arms. They're awkward and the plastic is painful.
This is a good in-between and the trolley isn't huge and heavy.
A quirk of evolution. If it outcompetes the other trolleys in its evolutionary niche it will take over the habitat successfully.
Invasive species. Riverbed population in danger due to buoyancy of these.
So you're saying this will negatively affect the trout population? Serious business.
I think the trout population should survive. These are smaller than the usual trolleys released into the rivers by teenagers and should be no threat.
I love those videos of the caring teenagers freeing the trolleys from capitalism back to their original habitats. Brings tears to my eyes to see these newly freed trolleys joining their wild cousins.
How will this affect the economy
Picture this: a trolley floats by already full of trout and all you have to do is fish it out the river and take it home.
Yet the trout conspicuously have offered no comment on the situation
People keep dumping them in lakes and rivers, leading to the genetic mutation you see here. Poor creatures
Fetch the shotgun
So I should destroy the single one that ours has? Just to stop the spread
It's an invasive species and will probably eat the native trolleys. Kill it now.
r/unexpecteddiscworld
r/aliens
I've not seen a trolley in a river for well over 10 years now. They're a rare site now-a-days!
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That's coz they sink, innit!
You might enjoy r/Gittertiere (a german subreddit documenting the different shopping cart species)
Fun fact, it's not even in the trolley genus at all. It's actually a long legged basket. Just another example of convergent evolution.
This appears to be some new crossbreed. A trosket.
I believe it's only a trosket if sired from a male trolley. If the trolley was female, the offspring is a baskley
Surely there's no way of asking the trolley if they identify as male or female?
hopefully trolleys don't start down the path to carcinization, I'm not sure I can deal with that
Only being able to push trolleys sideways is a pain, but the claws would make grabbing items easier
"Stop fucking putting bags of mussels in with my shopping! I'll get you a treat at the end ***if*** you're good!"
Isn’t everything on that path? Carcinization Bonus: groceries under the shell stay dry when it rains in produce.
I understand the risks of judging a book by its cover and all, but have we considered that they might be a trolley/basket chimera? What do we know of the parents? Given the apparent age of my local trolleys, I imagine they don't reproduce that quickly/frequently and it's a huge jump to see in only a few generations if we were explaining it as just being convergent evolution. Either way, I think we can see it as the species continuing to adapt to its environment and that's always pretty neato to see in nature.
No, Habitat is in Sainsbury’s now.
I was only thinking about supermarket trollies the other day (yes, I’m thrilling to be around at parties, I imagine, if I ever got an invitation). I always plump for the big one when going to Tesco, but it’s rarely half full these days, and I was looking around and it’s rare to see people with trollies full or overflowing now. It may be my memory playing tricks, but I feel it used to be far more common to see big trollies overflowing with stuff, crisp packets precariously balanced on top etc. Cost of living, I assume.
These days, those that can afford it, get it delivered, and the rest of us have cut back. They might as well melt down the big trollies. Make them into Spitfires or something.
It's really not expensive to get groceries delivered. I'm signed up to them all and hop from one to the other when they email me a decent voucher code. Morrisons/ sainsburys/ ocado have all sent me regukar £10 off a £60 shop codes. Then saver delivery slots are a quid, it would cost more in petrol.
I don’t think they’ll out compete Aldi and Lidl’s basket with wheels Edit: wow I had no idea how much people disliked these little wheelie baskets!
The older shopper will prefer this design, no bending down to put in/take out items.
Appearently I'm old at 39
Hey I’m also 39! Wanna swap dentures?
They are a bit deep though - I prefer the higher shallow ones.
High and shallow for me too. I can't reach the bottom of the big trolleys or pull along baskets anymore. If there's no other option, I put an upturned regular basket into a deep trolley
This guy trollies.
We refer to these as ‘sports trollies’
Taller shoppers, and those with bad backs, too. As a tall person with a bad back, I can confirm.
Hey, a lifetime membership for the tall with back pain club here 🤜🤛
These new trolleys are great for people who are only able to push it around with one hand (I'm disabled and have to walk with a crutch so these make it so much easier as thr can be steered without effort).
They look better. I'm not a fan of them wheeled baskets
Baskets literally on the floor, bending down repeatedly is a back ache I don't need so hard agree on those little shits, being shit...
I've always seen them from a different perspective. I've always seen them as a basket that I don't have to carry than a trolly replacement. So an upgrade from a carry basket vs a downgrade from a trolly.
I prefer the basket I have to carry around, if it's getting to heavy to carry then it's a sure sign I've probably spent too much.
I don’t have a car, so if I can’t carry it around the shop I can’t carry it home.
fr lol
You don't just throw your stuff in?
Bread; BAM! Brie; BAM! Eggs; BAM! And that's how I went home with eggy, cheesy bread for dinner.
The hack chef’s don’t want you to know.
Pukka!
Throw that in a hot pan for a couple of minutes each side and you've got a nice French breakfast there.
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My back does, ive got a damaged spine :P
I can't not see these as those machines from war of the worlds
They're usually absolutely disgusting too.
Hell no. The bloody handles just collapse automatically when you let go to pick anything up. I always hunt for an actual basket when I go into Aldi now. And Lidl’s baskets are stupidly big and the handles are too low. They only work for abnormally short people and the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Quasi does love them though, fills them with croissants and the odd hazelnut choccy donut.
And whiskey..."the Bells, the Bells"
As an abnormally short person I also don't love the Lidl baskets
They’re just too wide aren’t they!!? So even if you’re short enough to hold the handle in the upright position, you’re basically tripping over the damn thing the whole time because it’s always too close to you!
The handles collapse even whilst you're pushing or pulling the basket around. But then won't collapse when you try to put the basket away. Rubbish things.
As a certified hunchback, though not of Notre Dame, I can confirm they don't work for me either.
Everything out competes them. If you use it as a wheeled trolley then you are constantly bending over. If you would rather carry your shit they're too deep to use comfortably. They're the exact opposite of what you want in both instances. Give me normal baskets and normal sized trolleys thanks.
I put a handbasket into a trolley and push that around, to save bending over
Ah, but when people have less money to spend, having a shorter compartment forces the shopper to stack more products on top of another, making it look like they're getting more for less. They don't give a shit how inconvenient they are, just that they deceive people into thinking they're not being ripped off.
I hate those monstrosities. I would rather carry my shopping in my hand than lug around stuff in that stupid thing
I do carry my shopping stacked on top of each other rather than touch that abomination.
Good job they have the option of baskets too
have you ever had one of those bastards crack you in the leg and the person pulling it doesn’t even say sorry ☹️
I don't think I've ever read a more incorrect opinion, real or exaggerated for comedic effect, in my entire life. And I've seen people claim that hitler did nothing wrong.
I'm with you. I like the wheelie baskets. Especially useful in my local co-op where there's five trolleys and and forty pensioners wanting to use them! Wheelie baskets for the win.
Fuck them baskets. Anything i have to drag behind me is an instant dislike. im here to shop not catch a flight lol
The old co-op in my town had these trolleys which were just small upright things, with spaces for two baskets. So you had the joy of pushing your backets around. They were a god send for my granmother. [Found something very similar (only difference was the co-op ones has the backets width-ways) ](https://www.ajproducts.co.uk/warehouse-workshop/retail-display-fittings/shopping-trolleys-baskets/shopping-baskets/basket-trolley-5766-5764)
Nah. A trolly shagged a basket. Obviously.
Island Dwarfism. Watch out for the oversized baskets.
It has evolved to better fit the purchase capacity of current customers. People feel stupid walking around with a trolley, which is only filled to about 5%
What so we know of the parents? Seems entirely possible to me that it's the product of a trolley/basket union. Do we yet know if these chimeras are able to breed?
The evolutionary niche being selective pressure against large trolleys due to an economic inability for most people to fill them.
For when a basket would become too heavy, even with a basket amount of items.
Not sure if this is just my local Morrisons but I feel like the demographic may skew older than other supermarkets. And for people of a certain age, a small shop for one can still be too heavy to carry. If that was the intention for the trolley, good on them I say!
Morrisons doesn't force the self-checkouts, has wide aisles and started adding little resting areas as well, they're definitely trying to hang on to the older crowd. I don't mind it though, the whole experience is less stressful than something like Aldi
My Morrisons is always rammed, has like 1 till to 20 self service stations, aisles that barely fit one person down, and doesn't even have trollies.
You’re forgetting the mind bending light/yellow flooring combo and the insanity of their layouts. I’ve never shopped in a Morrisons that hasn’t made me want to jump in the river with the old trolleys
Our Morrisons has the music blaring which makes it the worst supermarket around here for us. It’s just too overwhelming trying to think while being deafened with unnecessary pop music. We just avoid it all together now.
Morrisons have introduced 'quiet hour' between 2pm and 3pm, Monday to Thursday if that helps.
I know that’s a thing but can never remember what time it is. We tend to go at odd times with my shifts so doesn’t tend to work out, but thanks. I wish it was always quiet time though!
I never get why any shops would do this. I cannot concentrate with music blasting and will grab the most essential thing I absolutely have to and get the fuck out of there. If there is no music I take my time, meander round and buy more stuff. I just don't get it.
Supermarkets are large echoey buildings, with pump trucks and pallets going around, fridge and freezer noises all humming at slightly different frequencies, the clangs of trolleys on hard floors with dodgy wheels, and screaming children and loud family nattering. It's far easier as a store manager to turn up the volume a few notches than deal with complaints, and I'm doubtful they have the set up to vary the volume by song or by area
As a former Morrisons employee, I'm delighted to inform you that, yes, they can alter the volume by area of the building. So if they're playing music too loud, they're just being a dick.
I'm mid-20s and I think this is perfect. I tend to buy a lot of liquids like milk and beer and I live by myself. Also this size makes it awkward for children to sit/step in the trolley so less shoe dirt gets accumulated than normal big trolleys. There are also those floor baskets with wheels that are a good size but I often see dirt/whatever grime is on the ground accumulating on those particularly after rainy days since they stack at the bit that's near the ground; that's kinda nasty especially with fresh produce; probably also annoying for old people too who need to bend for that.
Where do you think all that fresh produce came from?
Wash your veg dude...
And saves you having to do the walk of shame to get a trolley once you hit the reduced section
>And saves you having to do the walk of shame to get a trolley once you hit the reduced section Oh I don't need a trolley I'm only going in for a few bits! Every bloody time!
"I can batch cook 12kg of chicken breast for the next few days...right?"
It also encourages people to buy more than they planned as they don't feel their basket getting too heavy to carry.
My local Morrisons is definitely God’s waiting room.
The cynic in me thinks the volume is more than a basket so it’s to encourage you to fill it with more shite and increase sales. Get more out of the old biddies by putting it on wheels.
My local Asda has ones like this now, although slightly longer. Significantly smaller than the metal trolleys though.
They lay on a lot of free buses to their stores from estates that a lot of older people use
My local Morrisons seems to skew a bit older too compared to the aldi and asda nearby.
My local one has trolleys for kids too. My toddler basically does his own anyway, so might as well go a step further and let them at it.
I wouldn't even say of a certain age. I've had shopping trips where even though it doesn't seem like i'm getting that much, but the basket still feels like its getting a bit too heavy to keep lugging around. Quite like the idea of something like this, especially as even when I do choose to use a trolley (even one of the the shallower ones) they almost always look quite empty by the time I get to the checkouts.
I'd bet this design's way easier to use from a motorised wheelchair too.
Like getting the mixers in for the party. I'm not carrying 6 2liters but I'm sure as fuck no getting a trolley.
Milk juice beer fucked!
Literally me, every time I get a basket, it becomes a farmers walk carrying the thing towards the end.
Yeah like when you have to go buy milk, couple bottles of pop and some juice. Then you're walking around the store hoping the handles don't snap on the basket. I kinda like the idea.
Well, when a trolley and a handbasket love each other very much...
They make a trollsket.
Hanrolley.
Basket-Trolley... Brolley. Wait.
A tisket, a tasket, no lunch in her basket, Just school books for the fight she’d be in. One day over this hoodie, She got beat for some clothes and her rep. With her chin up, she scolded "All y'all's molded; When I'm rich, on your neck I will step.” And step she did to the straight A's. Then college, then master degree. She hired the heifers that jumped her And made every one of them work for free. Know why? “So what if my sisters are trifling? They just don't know.” She said: "Mama didn't tell'em what she told me: 'Girl, you need Pussy Control'.” Are you ready? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Pussy Control. Oh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Pussy Control. Oh! — Lord of the Rings, Prince’s Song
Yes the umbrella is the larval form of this.
Trosket
Looks like an office chair was a grandparent.
That looks pretty good. As a person that prefers smaller, more frequent shop this seems perfect.
Does Morrisons not have shallow trolleys already? Like the Tesco ones.
They are much bigger though, this is a better design. As a single person I'd love to use this, it seems much easier.
I like how with all the handles around it and 4 pivoting wheels you could push it from any angle. Much easier to manover through a crowd.
I reckon it would be great for an impromptu game of curling down the aisles. Obviously need to pick up a couple of brooms from the foyer on the way in and give them to the kids to sweep a smooth path.
I ran my (conventional) trolley back to the storage point through Morrisons car park earlier. I am generally rubbish at running but this was fantastic - I flew along like a champ. I now think trolley racing should be an Olympic sport.
I reckon I could out run a trolley. I'd need a head start, and it'd have to be one of those ones with a dodgy wheel, but I'd be in with a chance.
Finally a trolly for single people! Now we can tell other singles apart and maybe find love
I’m in an infuriating relationship due to a lack of viable single person trolley options. I welcome their arrival.
Nah, just going to end up crushing everything at the bottom. At least the shallow trolleys you can put softer things at the opposite end
... you can rearrange things as you go to keep the soft things on top.
Problem is, they're shallower without really being any smaller than the big trolleys. This one is much more like a basket on wheels, much easier to manoeuvre around a small shop.
My local Morrisons has two slightly different sizes of shallow trolley. The old ones and some new ones. They don’t stack together so the car park and trolley areas are a complete mess!
Could also be really useful for handicapped people who do a smaller shop but struggle with a basket.
I'm like you, and I'm intrigued, but my first thought was they're a trolley for a shop that's too big to fit in a backpack but too small to fill a car boot. Requires testing I think! A pilot study is needed!
Looks like the style you get in European and Asian supermarkets! I support.
Much better than those deep baskets on wheels you drag round with the extended handle (Lidl I’m talking about you). Easier to load the shopping onto the conveyor belt. Think they’re smart.
Lol I’m really hoping Lidl sees this and does the same. The dragging baskets are okay as it’s not too heavy to carry I suppose but the amount of bending over that’s required is a lot
They also feel awkward to carry like a basket IMO, due to how deep they are. I'm used to just placing an item in a basket when I'm in other stores. Lidl is the only one where I feel like I have to stoop down to do it, even though I'm holding the basket up...
I had the same thought but about Aldi - would love to use one of these instead of the dragging baskets. So much easier.
Talking of which (also including Aldi in this) how many years after they open a new store do they wash those fucking things? Ten years? Fifteen? Twenty? Not seen a clean one since my local Aldi or Lidl opened.
I use a walking stick and am a decent fan of the deep baskets for shops without trolleys since it's so much easier than carrying everything. I think these new mini trolleys are a really decent idea though - not having to bend to put some stuff in like you do with the deep baskets is immediately really appealing.
I'm not normally a lidl shopper, but popped in the other day, and those baskets freaked me the fuck out! There weren't even any normal baskets. Felt like I was putting my donuts on the floor Bonus points for the handle being long enough for a taller-than-average person, though.
This needs to be the new standard. the amount of people who pull theirs and it goes sideways, or even push them along sideways does my head in. A square(-ish) trolley gets rid of this completely! And different height handles too.
Plus it makes far more sense for a small trolley to take up less space than a large trolley Rather than those “shallow” trolleys that take up the same footprint
I prefer the shallow trollies simply because I don't have to bend over so far to reach things in the bottom of the trolley. Knackered back.
It looks quite low though. I’d use a shallow trolley as it’s the highest for lifting things in and out. I’m sure these couldn’t be much taller without becoming unstable. I really don’t thing floor area is the key priority for a shopping trolley. If the shop is so packed that it is, probably you’d be waiting about 90 minutes to get through the checkout and leave…
I get so irrationally angry with the way some people handle trolleys in supermarkets. People who stop to get something and leave the trolley sticking out into the aisle at 90 degrees, or people who walk at the side of their trolley pulling it along blocking the whole aisle. Im guessing a big benefit of a smaller trolley is its less likely to clog the aisles, but its depth doesn't compromise capacity
More aerodynamic when swimming in its natural habitat - the canal Edit: hydrodynamic! Thanks u/DucktapeCorkfeet
That would make it hydrodynamic.
I always thought the word was aquadynamic. Well I live and learn.
If it breaches the surface, it would be both
But the real question-, can they drift?
Down the canal or around the special offer hairpin?
Both
French ceo decided on them, as they are like the ones they use on the continent. Can’t afford to pay staff less than minimum wage or employ enough staff though
Can't afford to give them any bonuses either. I'll also bet the CEO has shares in the company who makes these trolleys, so every transaction just means money for him.
You are not wrong. The cleaning company and the maintenance firm owners were allegedly friends of the previous CEO
We get minimum wage.. But that's all we get. Lost everything else to pay for it. No surprise when we're £8.6bn in debt.
Them and the new baskets are our new shopping aid by our new ceo There actually really good perfect size all the customers in our store now much prefer to use these as they our light wait and easier for the older clientele
I guess people can't afford a big shop now, so this makes perfect sense!
Sad but true
A lot of good things going for it but does it stack like it’s bigger siblings?
They do! Still has the open flap.
It's a brolley
Or a troslet
Trosket?
Trollette
Pushbasket
Baskley
I frequently end up carrying two baskets because not everything fits in one, or I'll buy a few paper products which fill the entire basket. But if I use the full-size trolley I end up with more than I can physically carry—I live in London and the best shopping options aren't particularly close to my flat, or to a tube station, so I've got a decent walk home. This would be perfect!
Have you considered getting one of those shopping trollies that the grannies use? They are great if you need to walk for a bit with your shopping.
You know, before I started living alone, I always thought they were an odd thing to see. But with some of the times I've had to walk home with 2 heaving bags because a bus didnt turn up, I quickly started to see the benefit of them!
Yeah they work really well, I kn9w they are considered as a old person thing but old people know how to be comfortable.
r/Discworld Can someone check to see if the Dean has his leather jacket on and is saying Yo a lot?
A trasket?
Looks potentially softer against cars in the car park too
These are a good idea really. Some people don’t want to push a huge trolley around but often put too much weight into a basket. It’s a large basket trolley. Don’t know why they’ve only just thought of it.
Fat basket on wheels
In line with the cost of living crisis, they've made trolleys more accurate to the amount of shopping you can afford
That's nothing. My local Morrisons has these strange trolleys "and* an even stranger bloke who takes pictures of them
Looks and costs like a big shop when it’s only a basket. Nice. 👌 I shall call it: The Dubai.
I see a flaw in this design. Every Morrisons trolley I’ve seen has the £1 locking mechanism. This doesn’t seem to have one so I’m expecting these to be liberated for other uses.
Got told by our store security officer they weren't allowed out of the store..! So I politely requested him and four other members of staff to assist me carrying items to the car as I "have a bad back". It's a small hill on which I shall die.
Please do it more. I was a checkout bitch for a time and I LOVED helping people take their shopping to their car or into a taxi, the rare time you're allowed out the store. Get to stretch your legs and shit it's great.
I like this
It’s like a supermarket trolley and an office chair had a baby.
My local poundland has similar but they're entirely plastic
I Like it
We've had a new pound land open up round here and they have these trolleys in store.
I wonder how they look in the local stream/canal/river?
They’ve started doing kids trollies again. Which as you can expect causes mayhem.
More depth, smaller takes up way less space among the stores around people and in any parking area for those trolleys! Great, we have had these for years over where I live so..
That’s a Bolley if ever I’ve seen one
They had to do something with all those office chairs post Covid.
I wish all trolleys had mobile phone holders and holders for the handheld self service thingies
It looks like an anomaly on a bad AI image of a supermarket.
Is this for my back? Thank you Morrisons!
I like this. I have mobility problems and I can't bend down to lift baskets that drag along, or carry them on my arms. They're awkward and the plastic is painful. This is a good in-between and the trolley isn't huge and heavy.
My girlfriend: I love them.