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Originally Posted by Zeke

All the stores here have a perimeter like the invisible fence for dogs. Once you hit the line a wheel chock falls in place and it needs a special tool to release it. I think the city actually mandated these systems to sort of clean up the place. It has worked fairly well.

Nevertheless, there are still carts out on the streets carrying someone's possessions.

I have not seen that mechanism...but no one takes the carts here. Almost everyone takes them to the corrals at Walmart and even more at the grocery stores. I shop at a small commissary at a naval base a lot...and they do not even have corrals (other than one in the front of the store). I have never seen a cart not returned. The same at the large AF commissary I shop at sometimes (one corral in the entire large lot). Much of the large amounts of groceries are carried out by folks (that work for tips only) ...so there are not that many in the corral. I think the baggers retrieve them as they return with their empty carts.

I have seen the blue baskets at Walmart with some sort of device on the handles once when travelling. I guess it was for tracking them down f they were taken.