Anti-Theft Device Keeps Shopping Carts on the Job
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Shopping cart wheels are made from the same material as roller coaster wheels. Every cart must be tough enough to haul groceries for a decade. At a cost of $100 each, shop owners are keen to keep these rugged buggies on the job. Meet the hidden device that helps keep them out of the hands of thieves and close to home.
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This video makes shopping carts look like military tanks.
😂😂fr tho
I was thinking of this too🤣🤣🤣
Its so overly dramatic lmfao
American shows...
thats why people steal them..
All that and they can't figure out how to stop making it drift to the left.
LMAO
I love drifting the cart at costco
Jonathan Davies they put a wheel on the front and back on opposite corners to prevent you from doing wheelies or leaning to the side with the open wheels
Ikea has carts with casters on all 4 corners. Because of course they do. Multi-Aisle Drifting!
Back and to the left
BRUH HE PUT THE VEGETABLES IN THE CART WITH NO BAG.
🤮
That's just gross. lol
@AAA BBB Ofc you wash them, but you also put them in a bag because there might be oil or rust or shit in the cart
#savetheplanet 😂🤣😂
I screamed at that part. Who does that!!??
I never thought someone is going to make shopping carts sound so cool as if they are race cars, give this guy a thumbs up!
Rfid
haha indeed :P
Meh he didn't even describe the coolest part. The buried perimeter wire or how ot works. Does it just emit emf field that triggers the motor? Or is it using radio waves? And if so what kind of frequency? Is it 13.56mhz like the store door sensors. Idiot video for dumbasses. First have was useless bullshit.
Yes I became a huge fan instantly. Sure I'll steal one next time! 💓
I've never really considered using the words "shopping cart" and "precision engineering" in the same sentence.
+penguinistas you have no idea, there have been attempts to redesign this thing. Yet nothing is as efficient, as that single piece of engineering.
lol dumbass comment
I was more intrigued by the camera tracking of the background of the grocery store when it went from a live action shot to an animated breakdown of the cart and then back to live action again! Well done!
Yet it still rattles every day
+Gary Singh The ones at Walmart always drift off to the side as you push them. POS.
Gary Singh unless the floor is nice
lmao
give the graphics guy a cookie
Dont they have plactic bags or somethig, i never put veggies directly on a shopping cart, dirty..
You have to wash everything before you eat it. Even if it was in a clean bag.
Your washing your veggies or fruits either way
+Annie Xu +Lud 166 do you wash your veggies with soap? Pretty sure you're not going to get shopping cart germs off of them unless you use something harsher than plain water.
Charles Thompson III of course with soap -_-
+Cevulius Francesco That grossed me out.
"and stop thieves in their tracks"
* man continues to wheel trolly *
I admire this channels ability to make a shopping cart seem as exciting as a supercar
the fact that these need to be put in place just shows how messed up this world is
Minirex 2 well it makes sense carts are.like over 100$ a peice
Almost everyone that steals a cart is either homeless or poor and without a cart. When I was a kid we were poor and we kept a Safeway cart to push to and from the store. This was back when Safeway was cheap. When my parents moved we took the cart back.
I do it for fun, i give it back tough, i'm not a thief, prolly just an asshole
Yes it is due to our sinful nature, that's why we have thieves.
to anyone who has stolen, you have sinned, but you can be forgiven by God
but even if we don't steal we still have that nature (we do small sins everyday) and God's standards are so high that if you sin you are on hell's (hell is a horrible place) trajectory
God sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins and anyone who trusts that Jesus is what saves (he will change your trajectory to eternal life with him in heaven (an awesome place, that we can't begin to imagine)) Praise God
so yes there is hope for us, I just hope the Holy Spirit has his hands on your shoulder when you read this (because our sinful nature will cause unbelief)
I pray that people who read this get saved.
The electric ones with the anti theft sensors are a nuisance. They will activate when you don’t want to or are farther out in the parking lot
they might even be giving you static electricity zaps that people have been reporting at costco.
Imagine if you amplified the signal for cart locking and emitted it through the whole shopping center
CHAOS!
The wheels lock up to stop thieves in their tracks lol. How these lock is with sound and it plays a 7.8 ghz sound under the ground to lock the device. So you can literally download the shopping cart wav files online. One for locking the wheels and one for unlocking the wheels and play them right on your phone and put it up to the wheels to get around this lol.
i wanna test if the bumper can survive 30 mph
I was visiting family out of town and came across one of these. That wheel sensor tripped before I got to my car, so I drug the cart from the front the rest of the way to my car, heavily scuffing up the bottom of the locked wheel in the process, and left it there.
Lol. Seven years later and these carts are still terrible and not as high-tech as this video would have you believe. The Meijers in Northern Indiana have them and the lock feature goes off before you even exit the store. 😑 Then, an employee walks over as if you have stolen something. After they review your receipt with other shoppers staring at you, you get to awkwardly carry too many groceries to your car.
But you can still two-wheely it...
+Idriss Farah not if you put it on the back wheel
but you would have things in it
+Cubicle Productions i always two wheely it for fun when its almost full
Me two😎
+Idriss Farah In areas where cart theft is a bigger issue, stores will have cart models with two locking wheels making it impossible to tilt the cart onto two wheels to bypass the locked one.
"I really wanted to steal this shopping cart in my car, but the wheels locked! Darn, guess I can't drive off with it now."
RIP bubbles shopping cart business.
Poor Bubbles isn't going to like this. lol
yesssss!
bubbles knows how to fix this obstical
Bubbles stole candy and put it in that wheel!!
girly lovell I miss trailer park boys!! I finished that show a while ago
Why bubbles don't like it?
"effortless steering" XD
"oh no. the front wheel isn't working" "how will i ever steal this cart?" haha. just pop a wheelie and keep on cruising.
It's hard to do that if you have a cart full of heavy groceries. :)
Homeless guy simply removes the weels at night, replaced them with another set, and is on his way.
😂😂😂😂
I like how he said the wheel is locked but after the clip he still pushes the cart
Kids in Africa could've eaten that trolley :(
Nice to have more valuable scrap metal on those wheel locking devices
This video proves any product can promoted to greatness, even the toilet paper you use .
There is nothing, NOTHING that communicates "junk shop" and "we don't really give a sh!t about our customers" better than every single blessed shopping cart in a Walmart store that doesn't roll.
What a way to make shopping sound badass!
The carts at Walmart have special wheels that turn them into exercise machines.
They are especially difficult to move at all.
as a shopping cart tech, there is one major flaw in this vid. The reason behind the locking wheel is to prevent theft of groceries, not the cart. You need a tilt bar in the back opposite side of the locking wheel. That way one can not just tilt the cart back on the rear two wheels and walk out...
i managed a business called the buggyman , people don't realize just what kind of maintenance is done at night on these carts , everything from changing wheels to welding , pressure washing. but adding these devices could mean problems , like the static electric charges people at costco stores are complaining about . i don't know about you , but the carts i maintained weren't zapping people because they were just regular wheels , i think the electronic wheels are the problem. never had any static electricity charges handling carts before. i guess the idea of pay carts failed due to the cheap chains attached , theives can just cut these in a flash. if a customner has a pacemaker for health reasons , these electrically charged carts , could put the customers health at risk. i love it when these tech geeks come up with not very well thought out advances in tecnology. there are complaints in abbotsford british columbia of costco carts giving customer shocks thru these carts. maybe if these gouging grocery stores weren't so cheap , they could hire security to stop all the cart thefts at night and during the day , most of these carts are all loaded up and pushed around by the homeless then abandoned when they have no need for them.
His dirty ass actually put veggies directly in the cart, not in bags first.
lmao
Just fucking push it harder, it will slide...
or wheelie it. Trust me here in South Africa they steal a shopping cart even if it has 3 wheels missing hahaha
It rarely ever works too.
I worked as a manager at a retail store, and the biggest issue came about due to the locking mechanism. A customer was running with his shopping cart while his daughter was in it. He was "just having fun" with his daughter. So he began doing that thing where you push the cart really hard forward away from you, run towards it, and push again. He did that over the yellow line. So as she crossed the yellow line, with him far behind her, the front wheel locked and the whole cart flipped forward, with his daughter inside.
The yellow line was just repainted, so the guy knew it was there, plus, the shopping carts all have a sign warning of the locking mechanism.
Now, I completely agree the guy is an idiot. Or he deliberately did it... I have seen on camera, parents pushing their kids into a shelf and try to blame the store and get $ out of it. Iv'e seen many things in retail.
But, I still think that there should be an improvement to prevent something like this to happen. Even if it rare.
Why can't they lock the back wheels as oppose to the front? The cart wouldn't have flipped forward in that instance. And, when those front wheels are locked, people would just lift the cart off its front wheels and push it like that. In a wheelie fashion
There is an option to lock the diagonal front wheel also. You can lift the cart off the front wheels but this prevents people from moving that cart a long distance.
Maybe don’t be a stupid human and push your kid around in a cart that you KNOW locks after crossing a line. Nobody else’s fault but theirs. The shopping cart doesn’t have to change if it’s doing just fine.
@@azathothdaemonsultan666 Lol. If you provide no contribution to the matter at hand, then don’t even comment. Makes you seem ignorant and stupid. Either have an original, professional, useful thought or see ya
@@Jay-fy7bn typical manager response yep. We love trying to gatekeep the internet 😂
It may be vastly over explained, but those 3D breakaways are fascinating! Do you guys use manufacturer provided CAD files to make them?
Brilliant
This guy has serious passion for shopping carts.
😆
Lol what a waste of money and time. Locking up one wheel ain't gonna stop anyone from stealing it.
they need to make the thing fall apart at least
A Vong better than the coin cart though. In stead of pissing off all customers they just stop the ones actually being stolen
its like youve never been shopping before in your life, have you even tried to move on of those carts with the wheel locked? idiot
nuclearthreat545
Are you serious you fuck? You think I can't just lift up the corner with the locked wheel and pull the cart somewhere?
lmfao so angry about the locked wheel, that's how I feel about coin carts when I don't have a quarter. It depends what they're stealing the cart for, people who are trying to use it to bring groceries home would give up and ditch the cart closer to the store. If they're stealing it for scrap metal then there's no defense. Also I've never experienced a locked wheel because of the mechanism, they get screwed up in all kinds of ways, and I just ditch it immediately if its broken. Any business that uses coin carts hates its customers.
02:00 "which stop thieves in their tracks" while you can clearly see it moving fine.
It is a visual representation of what would happen, not the real thing. You can try it for yourself if you really want. Go to your local supermarket, and try to ride the cart out of the parking lot (see how far you get).
@@TYGR2115 Where I used to live,I saw Walmart carts every now and then,so pretty damn far lol,however I'm sure they've upped security by now.
Guy: OMG my shopping cart is transforming
I don't know why, but all of the shopping carts in the UK have four spinning caster wheels. Stupid. The thing is sliding all over the place.
I was on holiday in Florida an was surprised the rear wheels are only forward facing. Makes a much more sensible idea.
I wish the stores around my area use the anti-theft device as it seems that our village is constantly removing them from the streets. People need to stop taking the carts off property; if you need a cart to walk home with groceries or goods just buy a bushier cart, they are not that expensive and is made from the same materials as the shopping carts.
Or even drive. Ik gas is expensive but it's just a block away or so in that case. If people don't have a car, they can go get a job and be able to afford one
@@austinclaw Driving is not always an option especially if you are ineligible to drive due to a disability.
@@bluetheta true. I'm just tired of people stealing carts where I work at honestly
I work for a major grocery store, we don't have cool carts like this :-(
Now everytime i go to a shopping center everyone stares at me while i stare at the wheel after pushing it outside the shopping center.
#TooFascinated
After seeing this I'm ready to go fight the decepticons
Does it use very strong magnets, because I feel like the shopping cart wheel makes it just slide around without rolling
Had a cart lock up on me as I was going out the exit. Didnt steal anything, the cart just wouldnt move. Im a big dude so I picked up the cart and carried it with my groceries still in it to my car. After I put my groceries into my car, I threw the shopping cart over a fence. Havent gone back to that store since.
I've seen some older locking carts and the walking wheel if I remember correctly had a 9-volt battery and the walking mechanism just kind of looked like a fender over the wheel.
As the cart crosses the shop perimeter, the front wheels self-disassemble explosively.
He makes shopping carts sound so badass... also... who in the fuck puts unbagged vegetables in a shopping cart???
Ads can make a trolley appear beter than a fighter Jet.
You can still steal that shit.. The one locked wheel doesn't do much
Exactly. Not very effective to lock a wheel to stop stealing.
+Anthony Valadez It's so homeless people won't steal the cart. Sure you could drag it a couple kilometers, but it won't be practical for long term use and a couple miles a day of travel, fully loaded with their junk. No one else really steals shopping carts except the occasional dumb drunk kid, but they usually drop it relatively close to the store.
Woah, I am not going to see a cart the same way again
All you got to do is lift up the cart about 3 ft off the ground and that is enough to not activate the sensor on the ground
They put way too much effort into making shopping carts sound cool here.
Boom!
BAM!
Fizzle!
SHOPPING CARTS!
while these devices may help stores from carts being stolen , it could explain why customers are getting static electricity shocks from carts at COSTCO AND OTHER STORES. as someone who used to service and clean shopping carts for different grocery store chains , i have to wonder if they are still being cleaned with pressure washers , or since covid arrived , if the stores came up with a different method for fast cleaning of carts and killing germs. it might just be that these anti theft devices attached to the wheels , are the culporits of creating static electricity through the carts , and zapping the customers ? they quite probably created this static electricity charge by installing these anti theft devices on the wheels , that customers were not aware of . it would not happen all by itself . the carts i cleaned and maintained with regular wheels certainly did not zap the coustomers , sometimes technology shouldn't be used on some things , like shopping carts , it's a good way to lose your customers , and maybe interfere with such health devices like pacemakers , being a danger to ones health.
Pick part of it up over the locked wheel and replace the wheel when you get home? I used carts with one useless wheel that didn't turn before, only slowed me down slightly. And by shop perimeter, do they mean the edge of the paring lot? The cart would already be in the truck by then.
I can still push a shopping cart with one wheel skidding along any day
Random, defies common sense- I had never seen anyone place unbagged lettuce directly in the basket before. I had to re-watch it. Either this is his first time shopping or is oblivious to germs
I had to once hack the anti theft device and adjust the parking lot perimeters. No time or energy for toxic people that like to shop at certain retailers
What a shame. It's always the black wheel that gets locked up.
I live in an apartment complex and there's a shopping center behind it. The complex has a rear entrance, and they just put up a metal pole so you can't bring a cart in through the gate. Great idea.
you can literally just lift the front wheels over those wires to get it past, or a lot of stores only put the wire under concrete so take it over a bit of grass
Exactly what I thought
so when there's not enough parking spots in the lot due to coronavirus panic and you parked outside just to have a cart with 100lbs of food in it stop working. good shit.
Thief: I’ll just throw it in the Back of my truck and figure it out at home.
So the moral of the story, dont ride in the basket or if it hits the wire, you will become Peter Pan for a second and Willey Coyote for the landing.
1:04 You are not human if you put your head of lettuce on the bottom of your shopping cart unprotected.
its always fun to know how machines work, good job to whoever made this video.
Kaufland doesent have this, now my friends have quick diy grill and a fun vehicle to go downhill with
There apparently used to be a stop & shop near where i work, because one of their carts remained near our store for a long time. It could never be used since it had something similar to this in one of the wheels, and the customer using it must've been too stubborn to stop using it, and/or put it back when the wheel locked.
This dude really just put unbagged lettuce straight in the cart
in portugal we don't have that, one of the people where I work stole one, he picking up into the truck
+Zamfy el I've never seen it here either
So you can just carry the shopping cart over the hidden trap wire and it won't lock?
I just clicked to comment. They can't even get shopping carts to go straight. The wheels are always wonky, so I don't understand how this is going to work
Let's fill up our shopping carts with the things we need
And just roll out the front door
Past the cashiers and security guards
But the magnets trip the wheel locks
Before we even clear the parking lot
And take off running through the neighbor's yard
Who puts their fruits and vegetables on the cart without them being inside a bag?
I didn't think those locking worked until i tied to push it past the stores boundary in the front . I couldn't even budge it an inch.
30mph impact you say? Where can I watch shopping cart crash tests? I wanna make sure the shopping carts at my local Walmart are safe to use.
Never knew about this until I visited NJ…
He kept walking after the video ended 😂😂
Yeah and also it rams into your shin if you're pushing a shopping cart and don't go through the check stand.
1:06 lol I thought he was power walking at first.
biggest weakness... the battery. just dump the cart into water/puddle, and the defense mechanism is gone.
So, basically there is 75$ worth of state-of-the-art electronic wheel lock mechanism just to prevent theft of 25$ worth of cart? Makes sense...
You can see the sensor line.and when you get close to that sensor line, just lift the front of the cart till its cross the sensor line.
I think it's magnetic so a bunch of inches won't fix anything
Solution for shopping cart thiefs: Simply keep the cart's front wheels in the air around the perimeter of the shop.
Absolutely awesome video, wonderfully created!
Perfectly explained with details!
The only crime here is him putting that head of lettuce in the cart bagless
My Walmart has this, it doesn’t seem to work because people keep taking the carts home
You can just lift the shopping cart and carry it away XD
What stops people from just lifting up the one wheel or pushing the kart
how can a man simply make a shopping cart sound cool
Um that doesn't prevent people from stealing them because people can lift them up from the ground and put them into their pickup truck or try to carry them past those traps that are hidden underground to stop the shopping cart from being stolen
the voice of experience
Narrator: Making shopping cart sound cool
Me: Hell yeah
Guy in video: Places vegetable on cart cart without bag
Me: Ayo WTF
Walmart carts are the worst, ALL of them has some sort of issue. Yet I go to Publix, and maybe only 1 or 2 need fixing.
I never knew that shopping carts could be dramatic
Ok then just carry the cart... or skid it...
I think that you did it before.
Imagine if the anti-theft device actually caused the wheels to explode... I know it wouldn't be cost effective but it'd sure be funny...
Plot 31 this is america just imagine the lawsuits with that lol
Those are some intense sound effects for a shopping cart 🤣
ill never go shopping the same any more