Poor trolleys. Often taken away from their homes, separated from their brethren and abandoned once their service is complete. At times discarded in the unlikeliest of places (traffic lights, playgrounds, HDB corridors, LRT cabins), these stolen trolleys are an all-too-common blight in the heartlands.
The reasons why they get carted away from supermarkets (where they rightly belong) are ridiculous. Case in point: This trolley-ception.
It’s such a serious issue that Sheng Siong and NTUC Fairprice revealed that they lose over $100k annually on unreturned trolleys, with thousands of them misplaced by errant customers each year.
As an ode to the volume of stolen trolleys that keep popping up in random places, there is an actual Facebook page dedicated to exactly that. The Stolen NTUC Trolley Facebook page was set up since December last year to get folks to stop others from running off with them.
“Hopefully this page will create awareness to persuade authorities to take action against such inconsiderate behavior,” wrote the admin of the page.
From the amount of photos posted on the page, you’d think that Singapore has an epidemic of some sort. Now we just need Nguan to dedicate a series of pastel-tinted photos to abandoned supermarket trolleys.
