Trolley 65

First spotted on the pavement of Stones Road (on the way to the tunnel to Screwfix) over a week ago, still there when I finally return to the scene today, albeit moved off-pavement.

A Wickes trolley, so a first. A very heavily built trolley, remarkably awkward to push, until I got around to reading the instructions which said pull not push. That was not great, but it was a great deal better than pushing, and the chances of driving the thing into a stationary car were much reduced.

I noticed that at the Wickes trolley park they had facilities for chaining the things up at night - something I had not been aware of Sainsbury's doing - and wheeling all their trolleys inside the shop every evening would be quite a chore. An  unlikely chore.

On the other hand, I learned in the margins of returning this trolley to Wickes, that Sainsbury's log the pick rate of the people they use to fulfill online orders. Let's hope that such rates are just one part of management, with a significant & sustained fall attracting supervisor attention. Not part of a sustained whip-cracking exercise, worthy of an (unsolicited) call centre, complete with overhead walkways for patrolling supervisors.