When you come out of the Tesco supermarket in the West End of Edinburgh to unload your shopping-trolley, there is a sign a couple of hundred yards down the road which says, “No trolleys beyond this point! All trolleys have a wheel-locking mechanism.”
Has anyone ever tried to go past one of those signs with a Tesco trolley? How do the wheels know you’ve gone past the sign?
Who knows. I was about to try and write some silly,whimsical answer about tiny cameras and little robots in the wheels. Maybe, though, Tesco really would do something like that.
ReplyDeleteHere's two articles:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/kiddie_calming_trolley/
Not so bad. It'd be great for my little ones.Wish they had them here.
The other article is on the left side-bar(Parking Problem):
http://www.derbygripe.co.uk/trolley.htm
I'll have to remember that blogger's format cuts off long links. Sorry again for cluttering your comment box.
ReplyDeleteThe first article was Tesco to Deploy Kiddie-Calming Shopping Trolley
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Thanks for the links, Heather.
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