Supermarket fail

[Ariel Badger]

We have a new Tesco near school and I have dropped in a few times to pick up bits and pieces using a basket. What annoys me is that the shop is above the car-park and you get to it up a moving walkway, I am always in a rush and every time I go they will be some fat pikey with a trolley blocking it so I can not get past. These scum may have all day to buy own brand crisps and blue bottle cider at the tax payers expense but I do not! I need my asparagus and olives now!
Anyway I noticed that they had a good wine offer on and decided to do a big shop, the moving pavement was empty so I charged up it with my trolley like the athlete I am.
I found out why the underclass stand still and block my way as the brakes on my trolley automatically came on and it stopped dead. I however had far too much inertia to stop and the grab handle hit me square in the gut doubling me over so that I went face first into the trolley.
I said it was near my school, as I pulled myself out I saw two of our kids on the other side coming down, I fear this story will spread on Monday.
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[lukamon]

its your own fault, yopu dont exactly blend into a crowd
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[Ariel Badger]

It was a moment of pure revelation, My "on the moving road to Damascus" experience.
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[hellkat]

The moving pavement gets everyone eventually

Apparently there is nothing more annoying to fat Nigerian bitches with false nails painted disgusting colours (and fat chavs as well, no doubt) than an equally as fat old biker bird carrying a basket and saying "Excuse me" whilst wedging past, gouging their rolls of fat with said wire basket, and striding up the moving pavement ahead of them.
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[The Artist]

I think it is pretty clever how they work tbh and yes I would have paid to see you fall into your trolley

[Dragonfly]

Kids+mobile phones+vid=youtube
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[Moonie]

Banbury has 2 floor Tescos, and every time you walk in, all you can hear is "You are approaching the end of the conveyor. Please prepare to push your trolley off the end of the conveyor". I know this off by heart and so does anyone else who has spent more than 20 minutes in that godforsaken holding pen.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

[Ariel Badger]

[Moonie]

[Hex]

[Dazbo666]

We have similar trolleys and ramps at the local Ikea, and one of the larger Tesco stores. Never had a problem with trying to run a trolley up the ramp - although I tend to feel dizzy with motion sickness on them, so usually avoid using them at all if possible
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[colin1]

The moral of the story, is if someone else seems to be doing something daft, there may be a good reason for it that you don't know about.
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[tatfan]

I don't think its brakes that come on, I think the wheels wedge into the grooves on the belt so they don't start rolling down again. If you pick the back of the trolley up, you can normally start pushing them again.

[Ariel Badger]

[tatfan]

Fairy 'nuff. Wales is still quite behind the times, and I don't think the trolleys have brakes here. I know that trick works on the belts in Wrexham though!

[colin1]

It may be that there are detectors only at the rear or the fonrt, so if you lift the rear or the front, you may be able to make the detector think it doesnt need to apply the brake any more, as its away from the moving floor.
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[Ariel Badger]

[Pete.]

Nick a trolley from Sainsbury's and use that to shop at Tesco. Think of all the travellator-fun to be had
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[warped one]

I thought it was magnets.

To override it just get a mate to help pick the trolley up. Problem solved.
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[tatters]

Its a magnetic permeter under bricks in the pavement, causes a lock to enage on one or more of the wheels to stop people nicking it, best way around it is to lift the trolly over the line (noramlly marked by diffrent colour bricks).



Former sainsburys trolly boy.
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[Damon]

They have similar things at the exits of my local Sainsbury's. It's a patch that when the trolleys go over they get locked to. Stops all the teenage mums with their 18 children taking trolleys home I guess.

Anyway, to cut a long story short one of my friends dared me to sprint at it. Thinking it would just slow me down and I'd be able to run through I gladly accepted...

Trolley in hand I ran with it with all my might. Hit the strip and it was like recieving a right cross from mike tyson. The handle bent me in half and I ended up over the top of the trolley. It's not something I would do again in a hurry My friends thought it brilliant though...


This was only a few months ago, I really need to grow up

[Pete.]

would you get through if you could reach 88mph?
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[warped one]

That will have to be video'd.

But lets up the stakes, at my local Tesco, there is a lovely straight bit then the lines of doom follwed by a handrail then a road. Wonder if 100mph would be surfice to catapult the victim over the handrail and possibly the road too?
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[Tonka]

Once upon time I did the push a friend along in a trolley thing......

He wasn't small or short, so his legs hung over the front which was a bit of a bugger when I had to let go, going into the subway and he hit the wall at the bottom I still have no idea how he wasn't completely knee-capped, but I did see a grown man cry!

I'd like to think I've grown up a little since then............

Our local Tesco has that repeated message on the travellator and it's incredibly nerve wrangling, but then I find supermarket shopping very stressful, so it's just an added annoyance tbh!!
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