In a rather dirty condition, suggesting it had been out for a while, perhaps chucked underneath a hedge somewhere, perhaps even the trolley in the stream noted at reference 1, but not seen since.
I do not score the second trolley, captured just before the end of the alley leading up the side of the Sainsbury's shop into the car park, on the grounds that it was fully in view of the security camera posted at the corner of the shop and would probably have been recovered by one of their trolley jockeys before too long.
I pondered about the morality of doing stuff for free which Sainbury's might otherwise have paid someone else to do, passing on to the question of driverless cars, on which subject yesterday's Guardian held forth, without having come to any conclusion about the trolleys. I got as far as being uneasy about driverless cars, not because they are unsafe, believing as I do that they will probably be safer than driven cars before long, but because they will be destroying jobs here by spending money with Asian manufacturers and Californian technology companies, not least google. And spending more money to prop up the people who no longer have jobs - money that we as a country do not have. But all right for all the financial and legal services types who make the necessary arrangements. On the plus side, I note that they might make deliveries to rural areas possible in a way they are not now. Far too expensive to send vans and drivers out into the wilds of the far north with a few groceries - but a van without a driver might be a proposition.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/trolley-59.html.
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