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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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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Figures released today by retail equipment manufacturer, Wanzl, has revealed that 520,000 abandoned shopping trolleys were reported in the UK in 2017. They believe the real number could be as high as one million, which would represent 11,000 tonnes of wastes metal a year. However, according to their research 40% of British shoppers do not
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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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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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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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The days of abandoned shopping trolleys are numbered. Councils want the power to charge retailers $75 to reclaim impounded shopping trolleys and, if they are not claimed, to destroy them. The Local Government Association’s annual meeting yesterday called on the State Government to pass new laws to get abandoned shopping trolleys off the streets. The
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