Shopping Carts Infest Downtown
Shopping carts from discount retailer BJ's Wholesale Club have begun littering downtown Jersey City. Its not just bag ladies either; the carts are rumored to have appeared in the hallways of new luxury apartment towers.
So far, neither BJ's nor the city have done much in the way of cracking down on the abandoned carts. One solution the city could implement is simply fining BJ's Wholesale Club for every cart found around the city. The retailer would probably quickly figure out a way to keep their carts on their lot.
A BJ's cart is tucked beside a motorcycle on Wayne Street
Outside of Grove Pointe, a cart lurks filled with plastic bags
Columbus Drive
Columbus Drive and Marin Blvd
UPDATE
Found another one in the Italian Village, First Street.
UPDATE 2
Newark Avenue Parking Lot
Second Street. This is the nearest to BJ's of any of the carts, at just two blocks away. Also, someone was brown-bagging it and left their bottle in the cart.
Labels: Jersey City, Retail
5 Comments:
What??? Are you really saying that BJ's which provides valuable service to the people living in the area should be punished, because some inconsiderate idiots are stealing their carts? I think the people that are taking these carts are the ones that should be stiffly fined and made to work at the BJ's lot for a couple of days.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The rest of the big box stores with shopping carts manage to do a much better job of controlling their carts with electronic locks. BJ's could do the same.
there are a few bjs carts in the dixon mills parking lot on columbus/brunswick next to where they are renovating the gym (due west of the smokestacks)..the workers use them to cart tools and supplies around.
Even the A&P in Hoboken can put electronic brakes on the carts - which probably pay for themselves for the store owners.
Big Box doesn't belong downtown anyway - the least they can do is confine the carts to the parking lot.
What I think is funny is that Shoprite AND Linens & Things or whatever the home shopping store is both have electronic cart locks. I love going to Shoprite on a saturday and seeing a graveyard of carts stopped at the traffic light with locked wheels.
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