The Editor,
When you remove a shopping cart from the store property, it is actually stealing. Would you steal one bike per day?
Some of our city residents are stealing one shopping cart per day or at least three to four carts per week as they travel home with their goods. Then they dump the carts on someone's property.
They never dump the cart on their own property as I see the thieves remove their bags from the cart and cross the street to the Lansdowne Towers. The blight to the neighbourhood of 20 shopping carts piled up is a problem that needs to be addressed.
If someone steals three per week, they would be stealing 156 carts per year. Assume the cart costs a minimum of $100, the stolen property could cost the stores $15,600 annually.
Buy your own cart and park it at home in your garage. At minimum, if stores could have cameras in their parking lot and start trying to fine people a significant amount for removing carts from their lot, it would be helpful in keeping our neighbourhoods clean.
Let's shame these thieves and stop them!
Tamara Dixon Richmond
