[GWN7]

Sometime Friday night a shopping cart appeared on the boulevard next to my house. It's a Safeway shopping cart. The closest store is 3 miles away which is a long way to push a cart. So I called the closest Safeway store and told the guy who answered there was a cart on the street and gave him the address. I figured that would be the end of it, he would call whoever is in charge of cart pickup and it would be returned to where it belongs.

Monday morning the cart was now in front of my house. Maybe the cart pickup guy didn't work on weekends. I waited till afternoon and then phoned the 1-800 number for customer service listed on Safeway's web site. After going thru the phone directory I sat listening to the "everyone is busy, but your call is important to us" message. At the 3 min mark I almost hung up but I decided to find out how long it would really take. After 12 min a nice lady answered the phone and I told her about there cart on the boulevard and my concern some tool would push it in to my vehicle and damage it. She thanked me for calling and took down the address as to where the cart was and we said our goodbyes. I figured she would look after the cart and have it picked up.

It is now Wednesday night and the cart is still on the street. It's moved about 2' from Mondays position. I had to go pick up some stuff at Safeway tonight and I spoke to "Ryan" who appeared to be in charge of the store. I told him about the cart, the phone calls and he asked where the cart was. I told him the address and his answer was "I have no idea where that is" (I'm guessing that at this point he will be no help in getting it removed) I tell him the general direction of the street and offer to recycle the cart if they (Safeway) has no interest in retrieving it. His answer is go ahead they (Safeway) has lots of carts and won't miss one.

Safeway has no email address listed (I looked) but I found their HQ phone number and who the CEO is.

So do I break out the torch and cut up a $150 cart and pocket $5 for the scrap or phone the CEO and ask him to get someone to remove their cart?