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sMart Lock™ wins the Good Design Award for Design Excellence

We are delighted to announce that our sMart Lock™ innovation is the winner of the Good Design Award for Design Excellence. Here is what the jury had to say: ” An innovative approach to tracking and finding supermarket trolleys. Leveraging our comfort with using QR codes is clever, as is the capability for stores to […]

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Removal of 500 dumped shopping trolleys begins at regional SA wharf

An errant shopping trolley can ruin a perfect parking spot or even dent your car, but for one council, hundreds of shopping trolleys near its wharf have posed a much bigger, and more expensive problem. Key points: Port Augusta City Council issued a warning about jumping off the wharf last month The council and major

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Parks and Wildlife Service to clean up shopping trolley graveyard in Jordan River

DOZENS of rusted supermarket trolleys dumped off the Jordan River Bridge near Bridgewater will finally be cleaned up by the Parks and Wildlife Service after years of frustration. Brighton Council general manager Ron Sanderson said trolleys in the Jordan River, off Herdsmans Cove, had been a problem for “well over 10 years”. He said the

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Children at particular risk of injury from improper use of supermarket trolleys

For Irmgard Polklaser and her husband Walter it was a very ordinary day that ended extraordinarily with a death caused by the most everyday of objects. It was August 2010, and the elderly couple were doing a spot of shopping at Adelaide’s Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre. By the time they stepped onto the travelator,

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Trolleys and McDonald’s rubbish dominate Clean Up Australia Day

There was no shortage of shopping trolleys and McDonald’s rubbish to be found around town on Clean Up Australia Day. Nowra resident Sigrid Cooper registered an event and soon had 27 volunteers pull on their gloves to help clean up Nowra. During their two-hour effort on Sunday, March 4, a total of 61 trolleys were

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Tale of the lost trolleys: Campaign launched to bring them home

Every day around Australia, hundreds of shopping trolleys are taken away from their supermarket homes, left lost and open to the elements. But a campaign launched on Thursday will look to lead the way to change, after more than 200 abandoned shopping trolleys were found in an Adelaide suburb in just four days. Trolleys have

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Dumped supermarket trolleys are raising the ire of St George and shire residents

Doing the right thing: Linshan Zhu, who takes her own trolley when shopping, passes an abandoned supermarket trolley in Carrington Avenue, Hurstville. The number of supermarket trolleys being abandoned in the streets of St George sand Sutherland Shire appears to be on the rise. Dumped trolleys frequently line the Kingsway between Miranda and Caringbah, and

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