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No way.
Yet look at the increasing numbers of shopping carts abandoned on street corners in the suburbs.
Those metal and plastic haulers, most valued at more than $200 each, have become the blight d'jour as nearby neighborhood markets succumb to competition from distant big-box shopping centers.
Do police officers stop persons pushing carts off center parking lots? Of course not.
Do centers prosecute individuals taking carts off their properties? You got to be kidding.
Do centers have employees or freelancers round up their shopping carts? Hell no.
Municipal agencies ought to pick up the abandoned carts, impound them and charge their owners heavy fines.
Perhaps then shopping centers will take effective measures to stop the theft and abandonment of carts.(24 SEPTEMBER 2000)